Re: beige a.k.a oldworld g3 && quik

2002-09-12 Thread Michel Lanners
On 12 Sep, this message from CK echoed through cyberspace: > I read: >> Right. When I saw this mail this afternoon at work however I checked his >> boot device; it _should_ be OK (I thought I remembered some alias > > and I tried _lots_ of variations all I get is either just > can't OPEN: > or >

Re: beige a.k.a oldworld g3 && quik

2002-09-12 Thread CK
I read: > Right. When I saw this mail this afternoon at work however I checked his > boot device; it _should_ be OK (I thought I remembered some alias and I tried _lots_ of variations all I get is either just can't OPEN: or can't OPEN: /some/thing/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > The advice I can offer is ma

Re: beige a.k.a oldworld g3 && quik

2002-09-11 Thread Brad Boyer
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:50:25PM +0200, CK wrote: > Why does the second partition on /dev/hda end up being /dev/hda3 ? With a Mac style partition map, the first partition is the data for the partition map itself. I know that seems wrong, but that's the way it was designed. Any data partition wil

Re: beige a.k.a oldworld g3 && quik

2002-09-11 Thread Michel Lanners
On 11 Sep, this message from Chris Tillman echoed through cyberspace: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:50:25PM +0200, CK wrote: [about beige G3] >> is it possible to boot this machine using quik at all ? >> (if not something less ambigous should be in the docs) >> >> Does anyone on this list have thi

Re: beige a.k.a oldworld g3 && quik

2002-09-11 Thread CK
I wrote: > ok so now I can boot the system off the floppy how would I make > a new one to use a custum kernel ? sorry found it ... # mnt -t clue /dev/rtfm /mnt/brain regards, x -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Postmodernism is german romanticism with better http://pilot.fm/special effects.

Re: beige a.k.a oldworld g3 && quik

2002-09-11 Thread CK
I read: > > Is there a document describing how to make a hsf floppy on linux > > to boot it with a rescue kernel (the hsf install disk won't let > > me choose an alternate root file system) ? > > http://cvs.debian.org/powerpc-specials/miBoot/patch-floppy-image.pl ok so now I can boot the system o

Re: beige a.k.a oldworld g3 && quik

2002-09-11 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:50:25PM +0200, CK wrote: > hi, > > I recently snapped up a beige g3 (233MHz,of2.0f1,160Mb Ram, no hd) > for 50EUR and found an unused 800Mb ide drive I try to install debian > (3.0.23) on. I read all the docs and archives I could find (hell I > even dug up my forth refe

beige a.k.a oldworld g3 && quik

2002-09-11 Thread CK
hi, I recently snapped up a beige g3 (233MHz,of2.0f1,160Mb Ram, no hd) for 50EUR and found an unused 800Mb ide drive I try to install debian (3.0.23) on. I read all the docs and archives I could find (hell I even dug up my forth reference...) but I can't get it to boot from the HD so I have a co