Re: Old World Mac mounting troubles

2013-09-02 Thread Brad Boyer
On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 01:41:22PM -0700, Brian wrote: > If you have a old style plain hfs partition around that is good > because without hfs plus utils package may not be able to write > to hfs plus The hfsplus driver in a modern kernel can write to an HFS+ file system as long as it isn't journ

Re: Old World Mac mounting troubles

2013-09-02 Thread Brian
I recall dealing successfully with this issue. I think you had to go into the partitioning stage where it creates device nodes and then cancel the partitioning. But I also had a rescue cd which was Gentoo installer a live console. But recently a rescue option has been added to the Debian insta

Old World Mac mounting troubles

2013-09-02 Thread Gregory Richardson
Hi all thanks for looking. I've installed Wheezy on a 9600 PPC (oldworld) using bootx and the network install cd, and I read while searching the list that I have to copy the kernel and init from the install to my hfs partition containing bootx in order to boot the system. What I've also read and t

Re: Boot Floppies PPC Old World Mac

2008-04-25 Thread Risto Suominen
2008/4/17, Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Sarge had 2.6.8 (and some 2.4 which I don't remeber), the kernel > versions you mention implies that you installed woody. > You are probably right. I wish I could remember how I did it. At least now I have kernels 2.2.20-pmac and 2.4.27 (self-compi

Re: Boot Floppies PPC Old World Mac

2008-04-17 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 07:15:28PM +0300, Risto Suominen wrote: > I once installed Debian Sarge (a bit newer than Woody) on a similar > machine, 6400/180, and was quite happy with it. It had an IMS TT > graphics card and a USB2 card, and those worked too. The IMS card > needed some special depth se

Re: Boot Floppies PPC Old World Mac

2008-04-16 Thread Risto Suominen
I once installed Debian Sarge (a bit newer than Woody) on a similar machine, 6400/180, and was quite happy with it. It had an IMS TT graphics card and a USB2 card, and those worked too. The IMS card needed some special depth settings for colors to work in X. The kernel was probably v. 2.4.18. The o

Re: Boot Floppies PPC Old World Mac

2008-04-16 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:38:39AM -0400, Scott MacCallum wrote: [...] > Hans, > > Thank you very much for the information! I am sure this will save me > considerable time and frustration. The computer I am trying to get > Debian installed on is a PPC 5400/200 > (http://www.everymac.com/systems/

Re: Boot Floppies PPC Old World Mac

2008-04-16 Thread Scott MacCallum
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 01:14:59PM -0400, Scott MacCallum wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I am trying to get the latest stable release of Debian PPC installed > > on an old world M

Re: Boot Floppies PPC Old World Mac

2008-04-16 Thread Risto Suominen
2008/4/16, Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > But, as I said in the beginning, my knowledge may well be outdated. > Perhaps others on this list have more recent experiences of installing > (and running) oldworld macs. > Probably not. My experiences are very similar to yours. I'm writing this

Re: Boot Floppies PPC Old World Mac

2008-04-16 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 01:14:59PM -0400, Scott MacCallum wrote: > Greetings, > > I am trying to get the latest stable release of Debian PPC installed > on an old world Mac. I have been following the Debian GNU/Linux > Installation Guide > (http://www.debian.org/relea

Boot Floppies PPC Old World Mac

2008-04-15 Thread Scott MacCallum
Greetings, I am trying to get the latest stable release of Debian PPC installed on an old world Mac. I have been following the Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/index.html.en) and in it there is mention of a boot-floppy-hfs.img file (http

Re: Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-11-01 Thread Jeffrey Rolland
On Nov 1, 2006, at 1:59 AM, Brad Boyer wrote: I can't imagine that would be a problem, but I was just trying to think of anything that might explain it. I think your issue is a little beyond my knowledge of netatalk. Sorry I couldn't help. Thanks for the help you did provide. Anyone else

Re: Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-10-31 Thread Brad Boyer
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:41:19PM +, Jeffrey Rolland wrote: > Sorry, I got sidetracked last night. I certainly understand. There's always something going on that keeps me away from getting other stuff done. > Here's what I found in daemaon.log.0 for October 22: > > Oct 22 19:27:52 computern

Re: Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-10-31 Thread Jeffrey Rolland
Brad Boyer wrote: On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 10:57:22PM +, Jeffrey Rolland wrote: /var/log/daemon.log is empty: computername:/var/log# ls -l | more -rw-r- 1 rootadm 0 Oct 29 06:47 daemon.log Are there old ones in the same directory? /var/log$ ls -l daemon.log* -

Re: Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-10-29 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 10:57:22PM +, Jeffrey Rolland wrote: > /var/log/daemon.log is empty: > > computername:/var/log# ls -l | more > > -rw-r- 1 rootadm 0 Oct 29 06:47 daemon.log Are there old ones in the same directory? /var/log$ ls -l daemon.log* -rw-r- 1 root adm

Re: Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-10-29 Thread Jeffrey Rolland
Brad Boyer wrote: On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 02:36:19PM -0600, Jeffrey Rolland wrote: I am running sarge and installed netatalk from aptitude, so it should be 2.0.2-3; how can I check this? Try the following: dpkg -l netatalk That will give you a list format with the current version a

Re: Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-10-29 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 02:36:19PM -0600, Jeffrey Rolland wrote: > I am running sarge and installed netatalk from aptitude, so it should > be 2.0.2-3; how can I check this? Try the following: dpkg -l netatalk That will give you a list format with the current version and the short description.

Re: Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-10-29 Thread Jeffrey Rolland
On Oct 29, 2006, at 12:14 AM, Brad Boyer wrote: On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 01:03:12AM +, Jeffrey Rolland wrote: Looks like it must be something else. It must be. It might be worth listing which version you have. I'm running sarge on my box, and it has version 2.0.2-3 of netatalk. If you're

Re: Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-10-29 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 01:03:12AM +, Jeffrey Rolland wrote: > I did as you said, and the result was the same: > > computername:/etc/netatalk# /etc/init.d/netatalk restart > Restarting AppleTalk Daemons (this will take a while)Stopping AppleTalk > Daemons: afpd papd timelord atalkd. > ..Start

Re: Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-10-28 Thread Jeffrey Rolland
Brad Boyer wrote: Try this: eth0 -router -phase 2 -net 9461-9471 -addr 9461.223 -zone "MyLan" The documentation says that -seed fails with just one interface. The net ranges in the higher numbers are also handled specially. This starts at 65280, which is what you have configured. Also rememb

Re: Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-10-28 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 03:51:54PM -0500, Jeffrey Rolland wrote: > While we're on the topic, how do I make NetATalk reflect the changes > to atalkd.conf? Does it automatically update on the fly as soon as I > save? I have been restarting the whole box, but this seems like > overkill for Linux

Re: Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-10-28 Thread Jeffrey Rolland
On Oct 28, 2006, at 12:09 AM, Brad Boyer wrote: Also remember to restart the localtalk bridge and any other appletalk devices after you change this so they acquire the new addresses. While we're on the topic, how do I make NetATalk reflect the changes to atalkd.conf? Does it automatically up

Re: Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-10-26 Thread Brad Boyer
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 06:46:09PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I gave the commands you asked > > $ ps auxww | grep atalkd | grep -v grep > root 1308 0.0 0.0 2028 688 ?S17:43 0:00 > /usr/sbin/atalkd > $ lsmod | grep appletalk > appletalk 43456 18 > > and

Re: Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-10-26 Thread jrolland
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 07:25:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> The output of nbplkup is null. It doesn't appear to be sending traffic >> though the localnet. >> >> One interesting point is that I sometimes have my iBook running OS >> 10.4.8 >> hooked up via ethernet to an ethernet switch (

Re: Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-10-26 Thread Wakko Warner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Here is the string I used on a 56k sportster at work: > > AT&F&C1&D2S11=50&B1 > > > > I believe &B1 is the part that makes it work for me. S11=50 makes the > > modem > > dial as fast as it can. You may not want this especially if your phone co > > can't handle it. > >

Re: Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-10-26 Thread jrolland
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > If this USR is a sportster, that is an init string that you need to >> give >> > it >> > or you will run into problems like this. I don't remember what it was >> off >> > the top of my head, but it is the modem (according to past experiences >> > with >> > USR modem

Re: Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-10-25 Thread Brad Boyer
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 07:25:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The output of nbplkup is null. It doesn't appear to be sending traffic > though the localnet. > > One interesting point is that I sometimes have my iBook running OS 10.4.8 > hooked up via ethernet to an ethernet switch (which the

Re: Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-10-25 Thread Wakko Warner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If this USR is a sportster, that is an init string that you need to give > > it > > or you will run into problems like this. I don't remember what it was off > > the top of my head, but it is the modem (according to past experiences > > with > > USR modems) > > It is

Re: Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-10-25 Thread jrolland
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 10:43:40AM -0500, Jeffrey Rolland wrote: >> On a possibly related note, I am unable to detect an Apple >> Laserwriter 4/600 PS I have hooked up via ethernet, an ethernet >> switch, and an AsanteTalk ethertalk-to-localtalk bridge. Again, it >> prints just fine from the same

Re: Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-10-25 Thread jrolland
> Jeffrey Rolland wrote: >> Hello, all! >> >> I have a Power Macintosh 7500 running Debian Sarge. I have a US >> Robotics 56.6K modem. >> >> When I try to dial up, Debian gets the modem to dial, and the modem >> negotiates a connection, but then the remote computer can't hear >> anything Debian say

Re: Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-10-25 Thread Brad Boyer
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 10:43:40AM -0500, Jeffrey Rolland wrote: > On a possibly related note, I am unable to detect an Apple > Laserwriter 4/600 PS I have hooked up via ethernet, an ethernet > switch, and an AsanteTalk ethertalk-to-localtalk bridge. Again, it > prints just fine from the same

Re: Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-10-25 Thread Wakko Warner
Jeffrey Rolland wrote: > Hello, all! > > I have a Power Macintosh 7500 running Debian Sarge. I have a US > Robotics 56.6K modem. > > When I try to dial up, Debian gets the modem to dial, and the modem > negotiates a connection, but then the remote computer can't hear > anything Debian says,

Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-10-25 Thread Jeffrey Rolland
Hello, all! I have a Power Macintosh 7500 running Debian Sarge. I have a US Robotics 56.6K modem. When I try to dial up, Debian gets the modem to dial, and the modem negotiates a connection, but then the remote computer can't hear anything Debian says, and Debian can't hear anything the r

Re: video card - old world mac question

2006-05-15 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 06:26:31PM -0500, Daniel Boyd wrote: > I was reading through the installation instructions for PowerPC > Debian and I saw that it basically said that it would work with any > video card that XFree86 has support for. Is that also true for an > old PCI Power Mac like my

video card - old world mac question

2006-05-14 Thread Daniel Boyd
I was reading through the installation instructions for PowerPC Debian and I saw that it basically said that it would work with any video card that XFree86 has support for. Is that also true for an old PCI Power Mac like my Performa 6400? Don't I need an Open Firmware-enabled card? What

Re: Installation on Old World Mac 9500

2006-01-16 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 01:30:39AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to install Debian to an Old World Mac (PowerMac 9500). I have > tried Debian 2.2 (Potato) using BootX but failed since I could not find a > Boot Ramdisk. Do you mean that you did not find any installer i

Installation on Old World Mac 9500

2006-01-15 Thread linux
I am trying to install Debian to an Old World Mac (PowerMac 9500). I have tried Debian 2.2 (Potato) using BootX but failed since I could not find a Boot Ramdisk. The Installation of Debian 3.1 has been successful so far, but when I reboot, the System stops at a black screen with a small image

Re: Xfree86 setup on old-world Mac HELP!

2004-12-20 Thread vinai
On (19/12/04 16:11), Eric Scott wrote: > Yo; > Just installed Woody on my ol' PowerMac 7300 with it's integrated video > system. How on earth do I get Xfree up and chipper? dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xfree86 does it's "Please enter the video card's bux > identifier," but lspci does me no good 'cu

Re: Xfree86 setup on old-world Mac HELP!

2004-12-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/12/04 16:11), Eric Scott wrote: > Yo; > Just installed Woody on my ol' PowerMac 7300 with it's integrated video > system. How on earth do I get Xfree up and chipper? dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xfree86 does it's "Please enter the video card's bux > identifier," but lspci does me no good

Re: Re: Old world mac

2004-11-10 Thread Rick Thomas
Install MacOS-9. Then use the BootX boot-loader. (or 8.5 or 8.6, if 9 won't run on the S-900. I've never seen one of those, so I don't know what will run on it and what wont. I'm told that BootX even works with MacOS 7.5, if your machine can run it and you have a floppy drive to install it f

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Thursday, August 5, 2004, at 02:19 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Rikard Borg wrote: I'm one of those out there waiting with a 7200 box at home. Rikard Borg -- Hi Rikard, Did the work-around I sent you help any? Have you got that 7200 box working yet? Enjoy! Rick

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-17 Thread Bob Tanner
On Monday 16 August 2004 05:13 am, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Try the netboot/2.4 ones please. > > > > These work. Went through the installer and got the error message quik > > needs root to be ext2, would I like to go back. > > Cool. What version of d-i did you use ? i thought the quik installer was

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 06:41:57PM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote: > On Friday 13 August 2004 01:23 am, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Put then into the Linux Kernel Folder, reboot the G3, selected vmlinux > > > from BootX, click no video driver, Options, use RAM Disk, selected > > > initrd.gz and clicked Li

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-13 Thread Bob Tanner
On Friday 13 August 2004 01:23 am, Sven Luther wrote: > > Put then into the Linux Kernel Folder, reboot the G3, selected vmlinux > > from BootX, click no video driver, Options, use RAM Disk, selected > > initrd.gz and clicked Linux. > > Try the netboot/2.4 ones please. These work. Went through th

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-13 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/08/04 20:04), Bob Tanner wrote: > On Tuesday 10 August 2004 11:43 pm, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Install MacOS-9. Then use the BootX boot-loader. (or 8.5 or 8.6, > > if 9 won't run on the S-900. I've never seen one of those, so I > > don't know what will run on it and what wont. I'm told that

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 08:04:54PM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote: > On Tuesday 10 August 2004 11:43 pm, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Install MacOS-9. Then use the BootX boot-loader. (or 8.5 or 8.6, > > if 9 won't run on the S-900. I've never seen one of those, so I > > don't know what will run on it and what

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-12 Thread Bob Tanner
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 11:43 pm, Rick Thomas wrote: > Install MacOS-9. Then use the BootX boot-loader. (or 8.5 or 8.6, > if 9 won't run on the S-900. I've never seen one of those, so I > don't know what will run on it and what wont. I'm told that BootX > even works with MacOS 7.5, if your mac

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:43:01AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > Install MacOS-9. Then use the BootX boot-loader. (or 8.5 or 8.6, > if 9 won't run on the S-900. I've never seen one of those, so I > don't know what will run on it and what wont. I'm told that BootX > even works with MacOS 7.5, if

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-10 Thread Rick Thomas
Install MacOS-9. Then use the BootX boot-loader. (or 8.5 or 8.6, if 9 won't run on the S-900. I've never seen one of those, so I don't know what will run on it and what wont. I'm told that BootX even works with MacOS 7.5, if your machine can run it and you have a floppy drive to install it f

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Rikard Borg wrote: > > Hi > > Rick Thomas Wrote: > > > > >Any one of these three bugs will render debian-installer unusable for > >anyone with anything but a "plain vanilla" hardware or networking > >environment who doesn't have help from a competant System > >Administrator, or have such skill

Re: booting old world mac from floppy

2003-11-18 Thread Derrik Pates
Arunav Mandal wrote: I have a old powerpc and recently I have installed debian on it so there is no other OS other than debian. Now I want to install debian again but when I tried to boot it from hfs image floppy it always boot into debian. So no matter what I try it always boot into debain. So d

booting old world mac from floppy

2003-11-18 Thread Arunav Mandal
I have a old powerpc and recently I have installed debian on it so there is no other OS other than debian. Now I want to install debian again but when I tried to boot it from hfs image floppy it always boot into debian. So no matter what I try it always boot into debain. So does anybody knows how c

Re: XF86Config for old-world Mac

2002-04-14 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 04:17, Steven Tomcavage wrote: > I changed my screen depth from 15 to 8 and that solved the > issue. What about other depths like 16 and 24? Anyway, a crash is a bug, and any information helping to fix it would be appreciated. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debia

Re: XF86Config for old-world Mac

2002-04-13 Thread Steven Tomcavage
Chris, you were right. It had nothing to do with my mouse. I changed my screen depth from 15 to 8 and that solved the issue. Thanks for steering me away from the mouse. -Steven --- Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 07:06:45AM -0700, Steven > Tomcavage wrote: > >

Re: XF86Config for old-world Mac

2002-04-13 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 07:06:45AM -0700, Steven Tomcavage wrote: > (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured > Mouse" (type: MOUSE) > > Fatal server error: > Caught signal 11. Server aborting > > Could it be because I'm using the standard Mac ADB 1 button > mouse? It seems like it's

Re: XF86Config for old-world Mac

2002-04-13 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 02:58, Steven Tomcavage wrote: > I've installed woody on my PowerPC 6360 and I'm having > trouble setting up my XF86Config-4 file. When I start X, I > get the initial "grey" screen with the X-cursor in the > middle, then X shuts down. Any ideas? I get a "Caught > Signal 11. Se

Re: XF86Config for old-world Mac

2002-04-13 Thread Steven Tomcavage
I ran fbset -x to get an appropriate Mode for my monitor and then added that to my Monitor section, along with a range for horizsync and vertrefresh that included the Mode. My monitor is now being correctly set to 800x600, but X is still not loading. I also removed the Option "Emulate3Buttons" "t

Re: XF86Config for old-world Mac

2002-04-13 Thread eric
On 13 April, 2002 00:58, Steven Tomcavage wrote: > I've installed woody on my PowerPC 6360 and I'm having > trouble setting up my XF86Config-4 file. When I start X, I > get the initial "grey" screen with the X-cursor in the > middle, then X shuts down. Any ideas? I get a "Caught > Signal 11. Server

Re: XF86Config for old-world Mac

2002-04-12 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 05:58:03PM -0700, Steven Tomcavage wrote: > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Generic Monitor" > HorizSync 30-57 > VertRefresh 43-72 > Option "DPMS" > EndSection I'm no expert, but my observation has been that Apple video boards

XF86Config for old-world Mac

2002-04-12 Thread Steven Tomcavage
I've installed woody on my PowerPC 6360 and I'm having trouble setting up my XF86Config-4 file. When I start X, I get the initial "grey" screen with the X-cursor in the middle, then X shuts down. Any ideas? I get a "Caught Signal 11. Server aborting" right after (or in the middle of?) loading the m

Re: Install Potato 2.2r2 from CD onto Old World Mac?

2001-01-01 Thread Garry Roseman
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 07:48:50PM -0600, Garry Roseman wrote: I bought the new official Potato CD set, 2.2r2, and tried installing Debian ppc on my PowerMac clone, a PowerComputing PowerWave 150 (it's an Old World PCI Mac, like a 7600). First, the CD is not bootable on that computer or on m

Re: Install Potato 2.2r2 from CD onto Old World Mac?

2001-01-01 Thread Cole Stewart
yboards were working fine with that older kernel.) > > I checked the list archive and Ethan's web site; it didn't help me. > > There is something I don't know --- how to install Potato 2.2r2 onto > an old world Mac. Thank you kindly for advice.

Re: Install Potato 2.2r2 from CD onto Old World Mac?

2000-12-31 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 07:48:50PM -0600, Garry Roseman wrote: > I bought the new official Potato CD set, 2.2r2, and tried installing > Debian ppc on my PowerMac clone, a PowerComputing PowerWave 150 (it's > an Old World PCI Mac, like a 7600). > > First, the CD is not bootable on that computer o

Re: Install Potato 2.2r2 from CD onto Old World Mac?

2000-12-31 Thread Steven Hanley
irectly, or you could use macos+bootx still I suppose. Search the archives for quik booting stuff, especially linuxppc-devel archive. > There is something I don't know --- how to install Potato 2.2r2 onto > an old world Mac. Thank you kindly for advice. hmm, and the documentation, at le

Install Potato 2.2r2 from CD onto Old World Mac?

2000-12-31 Thread Garry Roseman
ere is something I don't know --- how to install Potato 2.2r2 onto an old world Mac. Thank you kindly for advice. -- Garry Roseman <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>