Re: Newbie/Novice Question

2002-05-30 Thread Michel Lanners
On 29 May, this message from Fred Heitkamp echoed through cyberspace: >> Hmm no, the drivers play not role here... Ah wait,. you mean a drive >> partitioned with DOS partitions, not Apple partitions? That would indeed > > Yep. > >> probably be seen as uninitialized by MacOS. But then again I lik

Re: Newbie/Novice Question

2002-05-29 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Michel Lanners wrote: > On 29 May, this message from Fred Heitkamp echoed through cyberspace: > > Hmm no, the drivers play not role here... Ah wait,. you mean a drive > partitioned with DOS partitions, not Apple partitions? That would indeed Yep. > probably be seen as unini

Re: Newbie/Novice Question

2002-05-29 Thread Michel Lanners
On 29 May, this message from Fred Heitkamp echoed through cyberspace: > On the advice of some other Linux PPC coders I installed a > PC PCI LSILogic SCSI card in my G4 Mac. It works fine with > the Linux drivers. Of course the Apple OSes don't see it > and you can't boot from it AFAIK. It may w

Re: Newbie/Novice Question

2002-05-29 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: On the advice of some other Linux PPC coders I installed a PC PCI LSILogic SCSI card in my G4 Mac. It works fine with the Linux drivers. Of course the Apple OSes don't see it and you can't boot from it AFAIK. One nice feature is that you can use a nativ

Re: Newbie/Novice Question

2002-05-29 Thread Michel Lanners
On 28 May, this message from Chris echoed through cyberspace: > The Question: > Can I somehow use a driver built for a Debian x86 PCI card and use that card > in > a Debian PPC (OldWorld PowerMac) machine? You cannot use a binary i386 driver. Executables are very different bentween i386 and powe

Re: Newbie/Novice Question

2002-05-28 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:24:37PM -0500, Chris wrote: > Dear Debian PPC Guru's, > > Trying to be brief: > > As a total novice with Linux I've heard people say incredible things about > what > is possible with linux. One problem I've run up with as a Mac user (but also > a > Windows/DOS user),