Re: Installing Woody

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 04:53:06PM -0700, Eric D. Hedekar wrote: > Also, is the standard Mac ADB mouse (plugged in through the keyboard) a > serial port mouse? It asks me to define this in the Xwindows setup and I > don't see ADB as a choice there. If you've got a really old kernel, the ADB mouse

Installing Woody

I've attempted to install Woody about three times now on my Umax S900 (oldworld mac). I can't figure out how to configure the install for the 2.4 kernel rather than the 2.2 and when it does run the 2.2 I can't get beyond the command line state (I'd like to run GNOME). I'm new to the whole Linux t

I give up (was: Newbie needs help: apt configuration problem installing woody on PM9600)

Well I have tried everything within my skill and budget, but I cannot get Debian running reliably on my PM9600/200MP. I am still getting hard crashes during dbootstrap's bad block check of the hard drives, or (if I skip that during instalation) during apt's configuration of newly installed pac

Re: Newbie needs help: apt configuration problem installing woody on PM9600 (long)

se in the group would have some ideas about that. - Original Message - From: "John Innis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 3:10 PM Subject: Re: Newbie needs help: apt configuration problem instal

Re: Newbie needs help: apt configuration problem installing woody on PM9600 (long)

On Monday 09 June 2003 15:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > went fine. However on my Power Mac, I am getting crashes during the > configuration of some newly installed packages. I have gotten the > following errors during the dozen or so times I have tried the > configuration after install. ...

Re: Newbie needs help: apt configuration problem installing woody on PM9600 (long)

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:57:44PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I could use some help here. This is only my second install of debian, and > the first on a ppc machine. The last was an m68k Macintosh that > went fine. However on my Power Mac, I am getting crashes during the > configuratio

Newbie needs help: apt configuration problem installing woody on PM9600 (long)

I could use some help here. This is only my second install of debian, and the first on a ppc machine. The last was an m68k Macintosh that went fine. However on my Power Mac, I am getting crashes during the configuration of some newly installed packages. I have gotten the following errors dur

Re: installing Woody on 8100/80

Hi Hendrik I am still relatively new to all this and although I've learnt quite a lot, I'm probably not the best person to help ;-) One of the reasons I did those notes was because I found it incredibly difficult to get going and thought it might help others. Although I could make some sugg

Re: Installing Woody on PowerMacG4 AGP - Yaboot from which partition?

Doh! I'd put the boot files on the wrong partition... I can now get into the installation window. I'll leave you all in peace. Thanks Clive On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 12:24 am, Clive Menzies wrote: Hi Setup as follows: 30Mb disk partitioned with OSX (and Classic 9.2) on c 15Mb

Re: Installing Woody on PowerMacG4 AGP - Yaboot from which partition?

Hi Setup as follows: 30Mb disk partitioned with OSX (and Classic 9.2) on c 15Mb (HFS+) MountPoint = / another partition of c 15Mb (HFS) MountPoint = /Volumes/Tux Can I install Woody on "Tux" without reformatting or disturbing OSX on the first half of the disk? TIA Clive On Wednesday,

Installing Woody on PowerMacG4 AGP - Yaboot from which partition?

Hi I've read the docs for a diskless install but am having trouble indentifying which partition to enter into yaboot for OF booting. I'm running OSX on the first half of the disk and have formatted the other half as HFS. Trying to list the partitions using pdisk gives : Top level command (?

Re: installing woody on G4 Cube

On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 10:01, Ryan Singer wrote: > - reading OF device tree.. > - calling quiesce.. > - booting.. > > after it displays the "booting" line -- the thing just hangs. My iBook did this -- the installer would not boot unless I chose install-safe (rather than install or install24 or

Re: installing woody on G4 Cube

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:01:20AM -0600, Ryan Singer wrote: > When I boot from the woody cd (same one I used before), it boots > fine. I get a boot: prompt, and choose install. After that, however, > the screen turns white w/ small black text ala OpenFirmware, and I > get three lines reading (some

installing woody on G4 Cube

Hey all, I'm having a strange problem trying to get woody on my G4 Cube. Googling and searching the list archives hasn't helped so far. I had been dual-booting debian and OS X w/ yaboot before my HD died. I've since replaced the HD and tossed Jaguar on it. When I boot from the woody cd (same one

Re: Big problem installing Woody onto a Mac 9600

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:18:06PM +0100, manuel wrote: > Hi everybody! > I'm in a big trouble as I can't install Debian Woody on our Mac 9600. > The problem is that the installer can't find my ide hard disk. > I've got a mac 9600 with a G4 processor and with a scsi hard disk > (debian installer fi

Big problem installing Woody onto a Mac 9600

Hi everybody! I'm in a big trouble as I can't install Debian Woody on our Mac 9600. The problem is that the installer can't find my ide hard disk. I've got a mac 9600 with a G4 processor and with a scsi hard disk (debian installer find it) with OSX and an IDE hard disk on a Ultra ATA 133 board on t

Re: installing woody on PowerMac 6500 w/3c905 PCI NIC

o came up, it loaded the disk, and then just froze > there. > > > - Original Message - > From: "Allan Streib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Philip Larkin Waters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 9:48 AM > Subject: Re: i

Re: installing woody on PowerMac 6500 w/3c905 PCI NIC

: "Philip Larkin Waters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 9:48 AM Subject: Re: installing woody on PowerMac 6500 w/3c905 PCI NIC > They are on most mirror sites, I imagine. The ones I used I got from our > site: > > ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/debian/di

Re: installing woody on PowerMac 6500 w/3c905 PCI NIC

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Derrik Pates wrote: > Or can you just install from CD, then take care of setting up the > network once you have a basic install going? Don't have a burner handy; I got the floppy images from our local mirror and it's working nicely. The NIC is working after all, I was just c

Re: installing woody on PowerMac 6500 w/3c905 PCI NIC

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Tim Moss wrote: > It might already be compiled into the install kernel. Did you try > ifconfig -a from a shell to see if there's an eth interface present? Yes, there is an eth0. So maybe I don't need to install a net module at all. Thanks -- I'll try to proceed. Allan -- "

Re: installing woody on PowerMac 6500 w/3c905 PCI NIC

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:39:31PM -0800, Tim Moss wrote: > Apparently, on Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 02:53:03PM -0500, Allan Streib wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Derrik Pates wrote: > > > > > Use the '3c59x' module. That also drives the 3c90x family cards. > > > > That's not among the modules includ

Re: installing woody on PowerMac 6500 w/3c905 PCI NIC

Apparently, on Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 02:53:03PM -0500, Allan Streib wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Derrik Pates wrote: > > > Use the '3c59x' module. That also drives the 3c90x family cards. > > That's not among the modules included in the floppy-disk install. Can I > download that from somewhere?

Re: installing woody on PowerMac 6500 w/3c905 PCI NIC

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:03:23AM -0500, Allan Streib wrote: > My network card is not listed in the "Select net modules" of the installer > (I am installing from the floppy disk images). Is this available > somewhere and is there a way to specify that I have additional drivers on > a disk. > > O

Re: installing woody on PowerMac 6500 w/3c905 PCI NIC

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Derrik Pates wrote: > Use the '3c59x' module. That also drives the 3c90x family cards. That's not among the modules included in the floppy-disk install. Can I download that from somewhere? Allan -- "The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne." -- Chaucer

installing woody on PowerMac 6500 w/3c905 PCI NIC

My network card is not listed in the "Select net modules" of the installer (I am installing from the floppy disk images). Is this available somewhere and is there a way to specify that I have additional drivers on a disk. Otherwise can I use the 3c509 driver or one of the other ones until I can g

Installing Woody (3.0) on PowerPC 8100/80 (Nubus) - needs Mach_Kernel

Title: Installing Woody (3.0) on PowerPC 8100/80 (Nubus) - ne Having searched the bug reports this seemed like the best place to post this.  Please forward if necessary. Thanks Installation notes for Woody on Nubus PowerPC's using the Apple MkLinux Booter and the Kernel with Debian P

Re: debootstrap error installing woody on Powerbook G3

Also, there is a Report a Problem menu item which will create a dump package we can look at. -- *--v- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 v--* | | | debian-imac (potato): |

Re: debootstrap error installing woody on Powerbook G3

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 11:57:44AM +0100, Ian Collier wrote: > I am doing (or attempting to do) a net install of woody using the latest boot > new-powermac floppies (files dated April 2nd) on my Powerbook G3 (Pismo). > (500Mhz, 640MB ram, 10gig free for linux) > > All seems to go fine until it c

debootstrap error installing woody on Powerbook G3

I am doing (or attempting to do) a net install of woody using the latest boot new-powermac floppies (files dated April 2nd) on my Powerbook G3 (Pismo). (500Mhz, 640MB ram, 10gig free for linux)   All seems to go fine until it configuring device drivers. When I select 'Next' it pauses a moment

Re: heavy problems installing woody on a brand new iBook

On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 04:17, Valentin Podlovchenko wrote: > I've bought new 14,1" iBook month ago and had the same problem > it seems that new iBook hardware and linux kernels work not properly > each with other (at least some 2.4.X kernel which I've tried to boot > with) The problem is when you b

Re: heavy problems installing woody on a brand new iBook

On Wed, 2002-03-20 17:23:39 -0800, Viral Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:20:45AM +0100, Philipp Schmidt wrote: > > Hello, > > > > a few days ago I bought a new 12.1" iBook 600 to use it primary as linux > > machine, but during my various

Re: heavy problems installing woody on a brand new iBook

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:20:45AM +0100, Philipp Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > > a few days ago I bought a new 12.1" iBook 600 to use it primary as linux > machine, but during my various tries all i saw were kernel panics. > > The Debian installer (from NetInstall CD 2002-02-15) claims the computer

Re: heavy problems installing woody on a brand new iBook

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:20:45AM +0100, Philipp Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > > a few days ago I bought a new 12.1" iBook 600 to use it primary as linux > machine, but during my various tries all i saw were kernel panics. > > The Debian installer (from NetInstall CD 2002-02-15) claims the computer

Re: heavy problems installing woody on a brand new iBook

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:20:45AM +0100, Philipp Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > > a few days ago I bought a new 12.1" iBook 600 to use it primary as linux > machine, but during my various tries all i saw were kernel panics. > > The Debian installer (from NetInstall CD 2002-02-15) claims the computer

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:24:58AM +0100, Michel Dnzer wrote: > On Mit, 2002-03-20 at 22:40, Viral Shah wrote: > > > > With xine, the dvdnav and css plugin just segfaults on my machine. > > Works here, have you tried several DVDs? I will try that.. > MPEG2 CPU requirement > DivX CPU requirement

heavy problems installing woody on a brand new iBook

Hello, a few days ago I bought a new 12.1" iBook 600 to use it primary as linux machine, but during my various tries all i saw were kernel panics. The Debian installer (from NetInstall CD 2002-02-15) claims the computer having no hard disk, sometimes i can run fdisk on console but when after writ

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

On Mit, 2002-03-20 at 22:40, Viral Shah wrote: > > With xine, the dvdnav and css plugin just segfaults on my machine. Works here, have you tried several DVDs? > I got ogle to work, and mplayer to work too.. Both were ok, but dropped > frames.. > mplayer suggests using alsa for sound. Would that

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

> Two things you can do: either bget vlc from their CVS; it is > debian-buildable by default; just cd into the top-level dir, and do: > > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot Ok. I did try the install-css.sh script with ogle sometime back, but it seemed to use version 0.3 of libdecss or something. The

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

On Die, 2002-03-19 at 08:04, Michel Lanners wrote: > On 14 Mar, this message from Viral Shah echoed through cyberspace: > > OTOH, has anyone got xine to play encrypted DVDs on an ibook ? > > Yes, but you will probably need to get libdecss (or whatever it's > called) from source; for obvious reaso

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

On 14 Mar, this message from Viral Shah echoed through cyberspace: > OTOH, has anyone got xine to play encrypted DVDs on an ibook ? Yes, but you will probably need to get libdecss (or whatever it's called) from source; for obvious reasons it's not in any Debian archive. You may be able to find pr

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

Hello again! First of all thanks for all the replies and help :-)) On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 09:42:38AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > mac-usb-us-keycodes on the images-1.44/* files - so I've no at, pipe > > > ... > > [...] > > > > Strange. When I followed these instructions, the woody boot-flo

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 03:17:10PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Mar 15 2002, Viral Shah wrote: > > So, I guess > > > > hdparm -d1 -u1 /dev/hda > > hdparm -d1 -u1 /dev/cdrom > > > > to enable dma and irq unmasking for hd and cdrom are required.. > > Yes. And the strange thing is that so

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

On Mar 14 2002, Viral Shah wrote: > The only reason to keep OS X around is to be able to watch DVDs. The > 500 MHz ibook falls just a little bit short of DVD playback in > software. Maybe the 600 MHz should be ok. No, playing DVDs is not OK, at least not with my 600MHz combo iBook

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

On Fre, 2002-03-15 at 09:03, Siggi Langauf wrote: > On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Georg Koss wrote: > > [...] > > > Branden's instructions on http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html ? > > > > I read the page indeed. > > > > I've one major and one minor problem with it. > > > > I've a G4 (Woody3.0)

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Georg Koss wrote: [...] > > Branden's instructions on http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html ? > > I read the page indeed. > > I've one major and one minor problem with it. > > I've a G4 (Woody3.0) with a 56k dialup as only working box. > On the ibook2 (?) I was able

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Viral Shah wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 11:46:53PM +0100, Siggi Langauf wrote: > > Oh, and if you want to keep OS X, do _not_ install it on an UFS > > partition; it would be terribly slow then... > > Oh, that is counter-intuitive ! > I thought using UFS might have been be

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 11:46:53PM +0100, Siggi Langauf wrote: > Oh, and if you want to keep OS X, do _not_ install it on an UFS > partition; it would be terribly slow then... Oh, that is counter-intuitive ! I thought using UFS might have been better, considering OS X was a port of FreeBSD etc.. T

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

Hi Siggi! On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 11:46:53PM +0100, Siggi Langauf wrote: > On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Georg Koss wrote: > > > I bought an ibook (M8597) last week intending to install Woody solely > > ;-). I meant that I want to have Woody as the only OS (God my English :-( ) > [...] > > Hmmm, I know

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:31:41PM +0100, Georg Koss wrote: > I bought an ibook (M8597) last week intending to install Woody solely > ;-). Good reason to buy one ! I just bought one recently for a similar reason, though I really needed something to work ;-) > Nope - I tried a lot of different se

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Georg Koss wrote: > I bought an ibook (M8597) last week intending to install Woody solely > ;-). [...] Hmmm, I know it's easy to find by doing a list search, but then again: searching Debian lists is not really easy, so... Have you tried Branden's instructions on http://peop

Re: Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:31:41PM +0100, Georg Koss wrote: > Hi all! > I bought an ibook (M8597) last week intending to install Woody solely > ;-). I bought one too with a similar intent, though I really needed a machine to use too. ;-) > Nope - I tried a lot of different settings resulting all

Depair: Help for installing Woody on an ibook (M8587) needed - LONG

Hi all! I bought an ibook (M8597) last week intending to install Woody solely ;-). I installed a minimal system with Woody's rescue-discs. As you know, this installation has a working 2.2.20-pmac kernel with it. For further installing (I just own a 56k-modem) I tried to get connected via my w

Re: Update on the problems with X (was: Re: Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X)

On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 00:06, =?us-ascii?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito wrote: > On the other hand, when I had MacOS installed here, it ran > flawlessly. Also, I have one LinuxPPC 2000 Q4 CD here that is > able to use this card just fine with the Xpmac X server, but > since I want to u

Update on the problems with X (was: Re: Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X)

On Sep 30 2001, Thomas Powell wrote: First of all, I'd like to thank everybody that has already replied to my question with hints or suggestions. Thank you very much. Your help is appreciated. I am still not able to use the X server while running Debian (us

Re: Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X

I am using a 4mb imstt128 on a dual processor s900 (same motherboard as 9500). I can get up to 1600x1200 with the fbdev or 1280x1024 with the imstt driver - both at 16 bit color depth. The relevant section of my XF86Config-4 is: Section "Device" Identifier "imstt128mb" BusID

Re: Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X

On Sat, 2001-09-29 at 23:12, =?us-ascii?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito wrote: > In fact, I'm lying here: when I tried using the fbdev with > 640x480 with 15 or 16 bit colors, X started, but with weird > colors, like if I had taken a negative of the Debian default > desktop with Window

Re: Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X

On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 06:12:26PM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > The PowerMac that I have here has a video card named IMS TT > (that's what the kernel framebuffer driver tells at dmesg), > with 4MB of VRAM. > Section "Device" > Identifier "Generic Video Card" > D

Re: Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X

hej, > And this brings me to another question: since this machine has > PCI slots, is it able to use any PCI card that I would use on > a regular PC? What requisites should a PCI card fulfill to be > usable with this machine? normal (PC x86) PCI gfx cards use to have some

Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X

Dear people, Last Thursday, I got an old Powermac 9500/180MP borrowed to play with and one of the first things I did was to substitute the MacOS 8.6 that came with it with Debian. I am an experienced system administrator and an experienced Debian x

Re: Difficulty installing woody OR potato on Beige G3

> Sorry to follow up my own post, but you know how it is... > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:37:03PM -0700, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: >> In any case, I was able to get the base distribution installed via the >> potato boot-floppies, leaving only the problem with the potato ofpath >> not liking

Re: Difficulty installing woody OR potato on Beige G3

ozymandias G desiderata wrote: > > Sorry to follow up my own post, but you know how it is... > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:37:03PM -0700, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: > > In any case, I was able to get the base distribution installed via the > > potato boot-floppies, leaving only the problem w

Re: Difficulty installing woody OR potato on Beige G3

Sorry to follow up my own post, but you know how it is... On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:37:03PM -0700, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: > In any case, I was able to get the base distribution installed via the > potato boot-floppies, leaving only the problem with the potato ofpath > not liking the beige

Re: Difficulty installing woody OR potato on Beige G3

On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 07:47:25PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > i reccommend netboot. keeping macos around is impossible without > keeping all that useless, harmful cruft as well. > > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc/netboot.html Well, uh, that's great, Ethan, but this is a _beige_ (OldWorld)

Re: Difficulty installing woody OR potato on Beige G3

On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 08:36:16PM -0700, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 07:24:02PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > e) Enter mac-fdisk, and here's where the fun begins. If I do an 'i' > > > to reinitialize the partition table and then immediately do a 'w' > > >

Re: Difficulty installing woody OR potato on Beige G3

On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 07:24:02PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > e) Enter mac-fdisk, and here's where the fun begins. If I do an 'i' > > to reinitialize the partition table and then immediately do a 'w' > > to write the new partition table, everything's cool. As soon as I > > try to

Re: Difficulty installing woody OR potato on Beige G3

On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 08:07:21PM -0700, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: > > It seems that whether I try to do an HD install or install from > floppy, I'm equally screwed. Let me outline my two scenarios of > screwage, after which I will throw myself upon the mercy of the forum: > > 1) Floppy ins

Difficulty installing woody OR potato on Beige G3

It seems that whether I try to do an HD install or install from floppy, I'm equally screwed. Let me outline my two scenarios of screwage, after which I will throw myself upon the mercy of the forum: 1) Floppy install: Well, this one is pretty simple, really. The HFS boot floppy works jim-dandy,