Peter,
yes, this is familiar. `libpcre' was my problematic package with old-world
woody (7600). i had to re-start the package downloads 4-6 times on average.
i even put a note to this effect in my installation log somewhere ("log
every action taken as root " && "installation counts as a roo
The Woody, diskette based, PPC installer works
well up to "Install the Base System" via the
network. I used the default source.
http://http.us.debian.org/debian
Several files are delivered; then a snag with a
report such as, "Couldn't download libgdbmg1".
In another attempt, "Couldn't downlo
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 07:00:09PM +0200, Michael Ladwein wrote:
> I managed to install Debian 3.1r1 on /dev/hde2. At the end of the
> installation
> process, Debian tells me it cannot install the quik bootloader. So I just
> finished without quik. I set "root=/dev/hde2 devfs=mount,all rw" as k
Le mercredi 19 avril 2006 à 19:00 +0200, Michael Ladwein a écrit :
> I managed to install Debian 3.1r1 on /dev/hde2. At the end of the
> installation
> process, Debian tells me it cannot install the quik bootloader. So I just
> finished without quik. I set "root=/dev/hde2 devfs=mount,all rw" as
I managed to install Debian 3.1r1 on /dev/hde2. At the end of the installation
process, Debian tells me it cannot install the quik bootloader. So I just
finished without quik. I set "root=/dev/hde2 devfs=mount,all rw" as kernel
parameters in BootX (/dev/ram0 works for the installer) but now it
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 05:48:49PM -0800, petereasthope wrote:
> Mon, 6 Mar 2006 Vinai Roopcha said,
> vr> BootX / Kernel / RAM Disk installer ...
>
> Yes, that works, up to where it searches for a *.iso.
> The mini.iso is on the boot drive and also on the
> target drive of the installation.
Mon, 6 Mar 2006 Vinai Roopcha said,
vr> BootX / Kernel / RAM Disk installer ...
Yes, that works, up to where it searches for a *.iso.
The mini.iso is on the boot drive and also on the
target drive of the installation. Nevertheless the
installer complains "... did not find an installer
ISO i
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 04:51:37PM -0800, petereasthope wrote:
> At Mon, 6 Mar 2006 14:11:59 -0600 (CST) Vinai said,
> > You can use the BootX / Kernel / RAM Disk installer
>
> Thanks. BootX is working.
>
> The Installation Manual instructs "Download
> linux.bin and ramdisk.image.gz ...".
>
>
At Mon, 6 Mar 2006 14:11:59 -0600 (CST) Vinai said,
> You can use the BootX / Kernel / RAM Disk installer
Thanks. BootX is working.
The Installation Manual instructs "Download
linux.bin and ramdisk.image.gz ...".
Are files "vmlinux" and "boot.img.gz" in
/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/hd-me
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, petereasthope wrote:
Currently, is there any way to install Debian on
an oldworld Mac, other than by CD?
You can use the BootX / Kernal / RAM Disk installer option. Worked the
last time I tried, which admittedly, was a while ago. But with this and
either CD or network
I've just read ten recent messages about support
for boot floppies and conclude that I should not
expect them to work soon.
Currently, is there any way to install Debian on
an oldworld Mac, other than by CD?
Suggestion
If the daily server could have a concise and
obvious notice speci
t;rom calls those are, and what they do, this would be enough for a
> >clean room
> >reimplementation.
>
> I've been doing some research into this. In particular, I've been
> looking at the "Monster drivers tech note" available on Apple's Tech
>
s tech note" available on Apple's Tech
Support web site.
As I mentioned in another thread, calls to the OldWorld Mac ROM, for
anything other than a floppy, are actually calls to a patched/extended
image of the ROM -- patched and extended with whatever driver
information is needed to help t
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 01:27:57PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 28, 2004, at 06:21 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 04:40:16PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> >>As far as I can tell, it's fixed in an as-yet unreleased version of
> >>hw-detect:
> >>
> >>- ma
I'd be perfectly happy (personally) if it only worked in 2.6.
However, I believe that Sarge d-i has, as one of it's goals, to
support both 2.4 and 2.6. Does anybody else on the list know for
sure?
Rick
On Tuesday, September 28, 2004, at 06:21 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Mon, Sep 27,
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 04:40:16PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Rick Thomas wrote:
> > I've submitted several bug reports on this topic. The developers
> > know about it, and may fix it sometime. It's not as easy to fix as
> > it sounds, because the mesh controller is not on the regular PCI
> > b
On Monday, September 27, 2004, at 04:40 PM, Joey Hess wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
I've submitted several bug reports on this topic. The developers
know about it, and may fix it sometime. It's not as easy to fix as
it sounds, because the mesh controller is not on the regular PCI
bus, so the nor
Rick Thomas wrote:
> I've submitted several bug reports on this topic. The developers
> know about it, and may fix it sometime. It's not as easy to fix as
> it sounds, because the mesh controller is not on the regular PCI
> bus, so the normal hardware discovery programs never get a chance
> t
On Sunday, September 26, 2004, at 08:34 AM, Duane Cottle wrote:
I'm going to start another thread concerning the fact that my scsi
hard drive wasn't detected during the entire installation.
You probably have a "mesh" SCSI controller. Almost all OldWorld
Apple machines had them.
Early on i
On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 03:44:37AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> note 1: You can use "hfsplus" in place of "hfs", if your MacOS
> partition is HFSplus. I use HFS, personally, because I feel like
> the Linux HFSplus module is still fairly new and untested. But I'm
> old and paranoid. You m
Hi Duane,
Did you install a 2.6 or 2.4 kernel? The 2.6 kernel requires an
initial ramdisk. The 2.4 kernel (usually) does not.
The kernel installer leaves a kernel and a tailored initrd in the
/boot partition. You need to copy them into the appropriate places
inside the MacOS System folder
I successfully installed Sarge using this week's iso CD. I used BootX to
access it, as the box won't boot from the CD. After the installation, I
deselected the ramdisk according to README and set root to /dev/hda7
likewise. I get kernel panic and "no root" error. When I use the
ramdisk, the ins
On 5 Jun, this message from Tyler Seboe echoed through cyberspace:
> Sorry about the html, i use a hotmail account for all public
> correspndence...is it fixed now?
Yes :-)
[snip]
>>Turns out (after reading some of the debian-x list) that changing the
>>"Default Depth" in the "Screen" section
>I'm trying to run debian on an old PowerMac 7600/132 with an Apple
>Multiple Scan 15 Display and I cannot fix the "screen wrap" problem
>described in previous posts. This is where the left ~15px are
>actually being displayed on the right.
I've not seen this problem anymore in the
Sorry about the html, i use a hotmail account for all public
correspndence...is it fixed now?
I admit that I'm a newbie, where exactly do you add kernel (or boot)
arguments manually. It's one of those things i see mentioned alot but never
see documented. I think I boot with Quick (?). If you l
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 04:50:15PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote:
>
> Just a quick note: don't send HTML mail. Many people won't read
> it since it looks too much like spam. It looks like you're using
> hotmail/MSN, and I know there is a way to tell that piece of
> junk to send plain text mail.
I'll se
Just a quick note: don't send HTML mail. Many people won't read
it since it looks too much like spam. It looks like you're using
hotmail/MSN, and I know there is a way to tell that piece of
junk to send plain text mail.
I'd comment on your computer problems, but my 7600 has never
had that kind of
Hello,
I'm trying to run debian on an old PowerMac 7600/132 with an Apple Multiple Scan 15 Display and I cannot fix the "screen wrap" problem described in previous posts. This is where the left ~15px are actually being displayed on the right.
I've tried a number or settings in debconf, tried to
On 15 Dec, this message from Michael Dartt echoed through cyberspace:
> # mount /dev/hda2 /mnt
> # chroot /mnt /bin/ash
> chroot: cannot execute /bin/ash: No such file or directory
You're looking at /bin/ash in your current root context. However, after
doing a chroot, your root context is now /mn
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 01:57:54AM -0500, Michael Dartt wrote:
BTW, threaded mailreaders like mutt recognize the thread to which
you're replying; so when you reply to a message from a different
thread, despite editing the subject to be the same as the previous
thread, the new message appears in th
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 01:57:54AM -0500, Michael Dartt wrote:
> (Machine in question: Performa 6400, OF v. 2.0)
>
> (No luck on all the suggestions from Chris' last post on this thread, I'm
> afraid.)
>
> Well, I tried booting from the installation boot floppy, reinitializing the
> partition t
(Machine in question: Performa 6400, OF v. 2.0)
(No luck on all the suggestions from Chris' last post on this thread, I'm
afraid.)
Well, I tried booting from the installation boot floppy, reinitializing the
partition table (which got rid of the Apple ATA driver entries that had been
taking up
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:44:07AM -0500, Michael Dartt wrote:
> The saga continues
>
> Machine: Performa 6400/180, Open Firmware version 2.0
>
> I've got the Debian base distribution installed. After getting my hands on
> Boot Variables, reading all the docs I could find, coming up with va
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:44:07AM -0500, Michael Dartt wrote:
> Machine: Performa 6400/180, Open Firmware version 2.0
>
> Here's the wall I'm running into: OF keeps telling me "CLAIM failed" when I
> try
> entering "BOOT". "Linux" gets "linux, unknown word". Right before the
> prompt,
> th
The saga continues
Machine: Performa 6400/180, Open Firmware version 2.0
I've got the Debian base distribution installed. After getting my hands on
Boot Variables, reading all the docs I could find, coming up with variations on
what the docs said (since the values given didn't work), and t
> Is there anything I can do at this point besides opening up the case and
> twiddling the bits with my tongue?
>
My oldworld machine's OF (1.0.5) defaults to using a serial console for output.
If you have a MacOS boot source - i.e. cd or hard drive partition or disk tools
floppy - you can reset
First, I want to thank everyone who's been helping me through this install. I
really appreciate it. :)
Now the black screen...I got all the way through the Woody installation,
selecting "Make Bootable" at the end. I tried to make a boot disk, but
evidently this isn't yet supported on PPC. I
First, I want to thank everyone who's been helping me through this install. I
really appreciate it. :)
Now the black screen...I got all the way through the Woody installation,
selecting "Make Bootable" at the end. I tried to make a boot disk, but
evidently this isn't yet supported on PPC. I
On 2 Dec, this message from Kevin van Haaren echoed through cyberspace:
>>>Hi, everyone. I'm trying to install Woody onto a Performa 6400/180
>>>that runs MacOS 8.1 on an HFS-formatted disk. I'm using the disk
>>>images from
>>>ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/cu
At 8:39 AM -0600 12/1/01, Kevin van Haaren wrote:
At 2:31 AM -0500 12/1/01, Michael Dartt wrote:
Hi, everyone. I'm trying to install Woody onto a Performa 6400/180
that runs MacOS 8.1 on an HFS-formatted disk. I'm using the disk
images from
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/dis
At 2:31 AM -0500 12/1/01, Michael Dartt wrote:
Hi, everyone. I'm trying to install Woody onto a Performa 6400/180
that runs MacOS 8.1 on an HFS-formatted disk. I'm using the disk
images from
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/images-1.44/,
with the
Hi, everyone. I'm trying to install Woody onto a Performa 6400/180 that runs
MacOS 8.1 on an HFS-formatted disk. I'm using the disk images from
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/images-1.44/,
with the exception of boot-floppy-hfs.img, which is corru
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 08:43:59PM -0700, Tovar wrote:
> Try a recent HFS boot floppy (one that doesn't have the problem about
> not recognizing when asking for a root disk). If that works
> for you, then you can probably boot LUNIX without BootX or Quik (and
> for me, that works without a key
Regarding trying to install on a clone:
days of playing with it...However, I've got an old Power Computing Powerwave
132 that I've been trying to install debian on, without a whole lot of
success. ...
... The Powerwave stops
booting
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 02:15:52PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 01:48:42PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > The whole serial port thing was too much work and too unreliable. I
> > could never get quik to boot unattended into linux, but could do
> > that with bootx.
> >
>
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 01:48:42PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The whole serial port thing was too much work and too unreliable. I
> could never get quik to boot unattended into linux, but could do
> that with bootx.
>
MacOS will not boot without some kind of monitor on the 7200s, and that
>
> I had quik and OF booting working some of the time with a powerbase 200
> but found that BootX worked ALL the time so I gave up and used that.
> The whole serial port thing was too much work and too unreliable. I
> could never get quik to boot unattended into linux, but could do
> that with
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:07:54AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > My first debian install was potato on my G4/450/AGP, and that went
> > relatively smoothly, but unfortunately, that's my work box, and I need to be
> > running MacOS 95% of the time on it, so I had to switch back after a few
> > da
> My first debian install was potato on my G4/450/AGP, and that went
> relatively smoothly, but unfortunately, that's my work box, and I need to be
> running MacOS 95% of the time on it, so I had to switch back after a few
> days of playing with it...However, I've got an old Power Computing Powerw
My first debian install was potato on my G4/450/AGP, and that went
relatively smoothly, but unfortunately, that's my work box, and I need to be
running MacOS 95% of the time on it, so I had to switch back after a few
days of playing with it...However, I've got an old Power Computing Powerwave
132
Andrew Sharp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Well, I tried this fix on my system, and it seemed to have partial success.
> The boot command stuff definitely didn't work, it just says that
> "wboot - bad word" or something to that affect.
This referred to Alan Mimms' fixes for Apple OpenFirmware 1.0.
[ please wrap your lines at something sensible like 72 characters ]
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:42:52PM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote:
> John, here are some links that may prove useful for you:
>
> http://linuxppc.org/documentation/bootx/index.php3?css_ok=1
i didn't check this, but most of linu
eapbytes. My question is has anyone written
> detailed instructions on how to get linux to boot and install on an oldworld
> mac? I tried the CD in my newworld iMac, and it booted off the CD just fine,
> but I didn't install it because I use it for work.
> My 7200's config
About 3 weeks ago I installed potato Debian from the CDRom onto my
Apple 7200/90. It was my first Linux installation. As David Roundy
mentioned, you really need to use BootX, the necessity of which is not
even mentioned in the installation guide, which is a serious oversight
of the PowerPC docum
n
>> detailed instructions on how to get linux to boot and install on an oldworld
>> mac? I tried the CD in my newworld iMac, and it booted off the CD just fine,
>> but I didn't install it because I use it for work.
>
> I run linux just fine on a 7300. I originally insta
r. I ordered
> the debian 2.2r2 CDs from cheapbytes. My question is has anyone written
> detailed instructions on how to get linux to boot and install on an oldworld
> mac? I tried the CD in my newworld iMac, and it booted off the CD just fine,
> but I didn't install it because I use i
written
detailed instructions on how to get linux to boot and install on an oldworld
mac? I tried the CD in my newworld iMac, and it booted off the CD just fine,
but I didn't install it because I use it for work.
My 7200's configuration is as follows:
75mhz 601
48MB of RAM
Segate 2GB hawk
I
Hi all,
I just got an old Motorola StarMax 5500/200 in an auction at
work. I already have a Mac G3 that runs MacOS just fine, so I have no
need to dual boot the StarMax. I decided to install Debian/PPC on it
and have a couple of problems and questions.
Firstly, my keyboard was un
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 06:53:58PM -0700, Debra Lowther wrote:
>
> Andrew wrote:
actually i wrote this passage.
> > just my crazy suggestion, if you can't get the keyboard to work right
> > for the rootdisk prompt, what about changing it to wait 10 or 15
> > seconds for a rootdisk insertion an
>>To: "'debian-boot@lists.debian.org'" ,
>>debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Andrew wrote:
> just my crazy suggestion, if you can't get the keyboard to work right
> for the rootdisk prompt, what about changing it to wait 10 or 15
> seconds for a rootdisk insertion and then continuing? would tha
Well, I tried this fix on my system, and it seemed to have partial success.
The boot command stuff definitely didn't work, it just says that "wboot - bad
word" or something to that affect. On my system, the video is readable, but
not great. But I'll take whatever improvements I can get.
A fe
Dang, this arrived with perfect timing! Get it, timing? See my [lengthy] next
post for details. I'm still composing it.
a
Michel Lanners wrote:
>
> On 3 Feb, this message from Andrew Sharp echoed through cyberspace:
> > No, I'm getting no output on the monitor.
>
> Important side-note: c
On 3 Feb, this message from Andrew Sharp echoed through cyberspace:
> No, I'm getting no output on the monitor.
Important side-note: control video hardware as initialized by OF is
notoriously bad at doing monitor timings. By default (i.e. after a PRAM
reset) it sets up some weird mode that resem
On Thursday 01 February 2001 23:02, Rick Cook wrote:
> Ok,
>
> I finally got my Power Macintosh 7300 to boot directly into Linux using
> quik.
>
>
> Now, the only down-side. Even though fbset reports (the correct) 1280x1024
> geometry, X, using the "default" Modes, creates a window with a geomet
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 09:09:56PM -0600, Rick Cook wrote:
>
> Maybe "nvsetenv boot-device `ofpath /dev/sd`"
> as normally suggested by Ethan will work better for you. I got the previously
> mentioned "can't find /bandit/gc/..." result.
im figuring out what scsi bus the disk in question is con
On Saturday 03 February 2001 16:20, Andrew Sharp wrote:
>
> No, I'm getting no output on the monitor.
>
The "nvsetenv output-device /chaos/control" is what got output on my monitor
even before my other parameters were correct. The man page for nvsetenv also
implies that you can set "input-device
There is probably a couple of things I left out of my email,
too. First, I assume all risk when f*&^%ing around with my
machine like this, so I'm not trying to hammer on anyone,
but I do appreciate help and info people can offer!
Together is how progress is made, at the end of the day. I
got thi
On Sat, 03 Feb 2001 02:19:49 Andrew Sharp wrote:
> Well, I did the nvsetenv settings listed here on a 7600 I
> just aquired, and now my machine is hosed! ~:^( It won't
> boot at all, not from floppy, disk or anything. I don't
> suppose there is a way to set the nvram to some defaults or
> someth
Ok,
I finally got my Power Macintosh 7300 to boot directly into Linux using quik.
What I did that got me going was to switch the Open Firmware output-device
(this from the example for 7500, 7600 and 8500 in the nvsetenv man page):
nvsetenv output-device /chaos/control
On the next boot
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 12:19:46PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> I'll start first:
>
> Success:
> 7300
>
> Failed:
> 7200
> beige g3
i helped a friend setup a 7200 with quik, it worked fine with kernel
2.2.14 and currently with 2.2.17. 2.2.15 and 2.2.16 failed. 2.2.18
is untested so far.
CON
Mike Fedyk wrote:
> I'll start first:
>
> Success:
> 7300
>
> Failed:
> 7200
> beige g3
Sucess:
Motorola StarMax 300/160
Zeen,
-Adam P.
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Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe!
Hmm, I've joined this mailing list in the midlle of the conversation,
but it's always worked fine on my 7500, with and without a G3 upgrade.
I didn't succeed on a Powercenter Pro 180, but it turned out to have a
dead battery and started failing to boot up at all just about the time I
started trying
I'll start first:
Success:
7300
Failed:
7200
beige g3
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