Installing debian on the XServ

2003-03-06 Thread Adam Done
Well. I actually did it.  I got the linux installed on the XServe How 1. Downloaded the very latest yellowdog for the xserv and installed yellow dog on another partition.. this took a bit.. not very exciting compared to debian. 2.  Then I prepared the hd for debian and moved on of

Re: debian on the XServ - ieee1394 problems

2003-03-06 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On 5 Mar 2003, Adam Done wrote: > Well.. > > After much of the day.. I finaly got it to work. I forgot I had to > reboot the box. Is there a way in which I don't have to reboot every > time I connect/disconnect. Firewire is supposed to be hot-pluggable. And it is on my Vaio. Gr{oetje,eetin

Re: debian on the XServ - ieee1394 problems

2003-03-05 Thread Adam Done
Well.. After much of the day.. I finaly got it to work.  I forgot I had to reboot the box.  Is there a way in which I don't have to reboot every time I connect/disconnect. Here is my dmesg ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[63]  MMIO=[8008-800807ff]  Max Packet=[2048] ieee1394: Ho

Re: debian on the XServ - ieee1394 problems

2003-03-05 Thread Adam Done
I just got firewire modules installed and runing on my G4 eth1394 6500   0  (unused) sbp2   17776   0  (unused) ohci1394   19488   0  (unused) ieee1394   35608   0  [eth1394 sbp2 ohci1394] Now what device can I mount a drive?  I tried s

Re: debian on the XServ

2003-03-05 Thread simon
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:00:16 -0800, Adam Done composed: >Greetings, > > >Can some one shed some new light on my dark foreboding situation here? >Thank you in advanced. you need a newer yaboot than there is in woody. at least 1.3.8, woody has 1.3.6 IIRC. eric >-Adam > >

Re: debian on the XServ - ieee1394 problems

2003-03-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 09:17, Adam Done wrote: > I downloaded the 2.4.20 kernel from kernel.org and did the rsync with > the benh.. kernel and compiled the kernel. Every thing worked just > fine except the ieee1394. I compiled it with ieee1394 in modules and > compiled in the kernel and both does n

Re: debian on the XServ - ieee1394 problems

2003-03-05 Thread Adam Done
I downloaded the 2.4.20 kernel from kernel.org and did the rsync with the benh.. kernel and compiled the kernel. Every thing worked just fine except the ieee1394.  I compiled it with ieee1394 in modules and compiled in the kernel and both does not work.  When i compile it ieee1394 as modules an

Re: debian on the XServ

2003-03-04 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Adam, On Mittwoch, März 5, 2003, at 12:57 Uhr, Adam Done wrote: Does it need to be this particular tree.  Right now i am using debians 2.4.20 kernel I compiled for the powerpc.  I can't tell what version the linux_2_4_benh would be.  With

Re: debian on the XServ

2003-03-04 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:00:16AM -0800, Adam Done wrote: > Greetings, > > I have just acquired an xserv and have been trying to put Linux on the > server and to no avail, nothing works. I have used all the install24 > options when at the boot prompt. For the most part when i boot using > insta

Re: debian on the XServ

2003-03-04 Thread Adam Done
Daniel, Thank you fro your help.  I do have some questions though.  XServe Documentation First, made a new kernel from the development sources of benh (http://penguinppc.org/dev/kernel.shtml, Tree linux_2_4_benh). The kernel was compiled with make-kpgk kernel_image, so that it can easi

Re: debian on the XServ

2003-03-04 Thread Daniel Kleine-Albers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dienstag, März 4, 2003, at 08:00 Uhr, Adam Done wrote: Greetings, I have just acquired an xserv and have been trying to put Linux on the server and to no avail, nothing works.  I have used all the install24 options when at the boot prompt.

debian on the XServ

2003-03-04 Thread Adam Done
Greetings, I have just acquired an xserv and have been trying to put Linux on the server and to no avail, nothing works.  I have used all the install24 options when at the boot prompt.  For the most part when i boot using install24-safe, it takes a quite a long time to start after loading.  I