I had this problem. It's failing to set the default font path because
xpmac is a bad egg. What you need to do is pile all of your fonts into
one directory, use mkfontdir on that directory, and use startx --
-mach64 -fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fontpiledir.
<-
> Ok.
>
> $> startx -- -mach64
>
Does any one know if I can boot linux from a zip disk on a PowerMac G4 ?
Ethan Benson mailed me a script to produce a CD image so I can boot from
it and install Debian, but unfortunately I don't have access to a CD
burner anymore.
So can it be done ?
Do I need to fool around in Open Firmware ?
If
Brendan J Simon wrote:
> Does any one know if I can boot linux from a zip disk on a PowerMac G4 ?
Well, that depends what you mean by boot. If you mean load yaboot and a kernel,
then yes, most certainly. That's what I do. You just replace "hd:" with
"zip:" and you're all set.
> So can it be d
Nelson Abramson wrote:
> > Does any one know if I can boot linux from a zip disk on a PowerMac G4 ?
>
> Well, that depends what you mean by boot. If you mean load yaboot and a
> kernel,
> then yes, most certainly. That's what I do. You just replace "hd:" with
> "zip:" and you're all set.
>
> >
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 06:26:13PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Ah, so that's how you use that! (I had tried sda4/vmlinu... and
> scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:4/vmlinux... several other possibilities, the messages
> are not so
> clear.) Yes, the zip partition is 4, and 4/boot/vmlinux-2.2.15pre17-a
Brendan J Simon wrote:
> OK this all sounds great, but I don't have any machines running Linux/PPC (I
> assume
> yaboot/ybin requires Linux/PPC but I might be mistaken).
yaboot is a small program to ease the interaction w/ OF, taking care of all of
the
complicated and difficult parts (well, err
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 06:20:49PM +, Sergio Brandano wrote:
>
> > I have encountered the need for /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions when
> > installing a linuxPPC package. I have no clue of what is about and
> > where I can get it. If you do, please reply.
>
> ... it is in the initscripts of linux
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 10:37:52PM -0400, Nelson Abramson wrote:
> Brendan J Simon wrote:
>
> > OK this all sounds great, but I don't have any machines running Linux/PPC
> > (I assume
> > yaboot/ybin requires Linux/PPC but I might be mistaken).
>
> yaboot is a small program to ease the interacti
Right now, i'm using the framebuffer X server, and it's slow as beans.
how can i try to make it use the ATI Mach64 driver? It doesn't seem to
want to work.
Also, the backspace doesn't work, i'm working on beating that issue with
a stick, but typing this message is somewhat more of a task, using
Right now, i'm using the framebuffer X server, and it's slow as beans.
how can i try to make it use the ATI Mach64 driver? It doesn't seem to
want to work.
Also, the backspace doesn't work, i'm working on beating that issue with
a stick, but typing this message is somewhat more of a task, usin
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 11:36:30PM -0700, Sam Powers wrote:
> Right now, i'm using the framebuffer X server, and it's slow as beans.
> how can i try to make it use the ATI Mach64 driver? It doesn't seem to
> want to work.
No clue on this, while its slow, I dont really have any problem dealing
wi
I finally went out and bought linuxppc (AUS$15) and yellowdog (AUS$15)
disks so I can boot into Linux. I don't plan on installing either, I
just wanted a boot disk so I could untar the debian base2_2.tgz file and
then use apt.
I downloaded ybin (0.11), yaboot (0.5) and hfsutils and managed to
ins
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 06:15:51PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote:
> I finally went out and bought linuxppc (AUS$15) and yellowdog (AUS$15)
> disks so I can boot into Linux. I don't plan on installing either, I
> just wanted a boot disk so I could untar the debian base2_2.tgz file and
> then use apt
(First to all: Sorry, if this is/was discussed, but I have only a very
limited WWW-Access. Sorry!)
Is there a (even very little chance) to get something to boot (must not do
usefull things) on a RS/6000 Model 250 (with a PPC [EMAIL PROTECTED] and MCA)?
If
there is work in progress for this machin
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 02:07:33AM -0500, Matt Knopp wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 11:36:30PM -0700, Sam Powers wrote:
> > Right now, i'm using the framebuffer X server, and it's slow as beans.
> > how can i try to make it use the ATI Mach64 driver? It doesn't seem to
> > want to work.
Normal
Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>
> Sergio Brandano wrote:
>
> > There you go. I had to erase .gnome/user-cal.vcf.
> > Now it works.
>
> My goodness, it does work!
>
> The funny thing is, my user-cal.vcf was generated by gnomecal on Debian
> i386, where it opens and closes just fine. Is gnomecal fil
This is exactly my experience on my sawtooth G4, except that
I had been trying to get ybin 0.10 to function. I had thought
maybe I wasn't following the installation instructions correctly,
but can't find any discrepencies between what Ethan suggests and
what I'm doing.
> I finally went out and b
On Wed, Apr 05, Legalh wrote:
> how to make a xmodmap with 8859-2 on my amiga/apus/debianppc box?
Please, don't start with workarounds. Xmodmap is only useful for broken
distributions... or if you don't have any root access to your machine ;)
Just create a proper xkb/keycodes/amiga , xkb/symbols
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 07:32:42AM -0500, pohl wrote:
>
> This is exactly my experience on my sawtooth G4, except that
> I had been trying to get ybin 0.10 to function. I had thought
> maybe I wasn't following the installation instructions correctly,
> but can't find any discrepencies between wha
Hi all,
I install Potato PowerPC PReP on a MVME2306 diskless board.
Install program run correctly, kernel an base system are on the server
(Pentium75+RH6.0)
Now I want to boot but I don't know how to specifie that root fs is a nfs
mount.
Boot parameters seems to be ignored.
What is wrong ??
thank
Ethan wrote:
> you never got it to work? i really think this has to be some
> difference in some G4's OpenFirmware... though i think Ben has
> G4 and has yaboot working...
I guess there is a lot of hardware (and probably firmware) variance
even within the set of machines that go by the "G4" lab
Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> >
> > Sergio Brandano wrote:
> >
> > > There you go. I had to erase .gnome/user-cal.vcf.
> > > Now it works.
> >
> > My goodness, it does work!
> >
> > The funny thing is, my user-cal.vcf was generated by gnomecal on Debian
> > i386, where it open
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 10:00:49AM -0500, pohl wrote:
>
> Ethan wrote:
> > you never got it to work? i really think this has to be some
> > difference in some G4's OpenFirmware... though i think Ben has
> > G4 and has yaboot working...
>
> I guess there is a lot of hardware (and probably firmwa
Josh wrote:
>
> I've got a G4/500 running w/o any problems with yaboot here...
> Just got it from Apple 2 weeks ago.
Cool! Could you describe your partitioning scheme and attach
the yaboot.conf and ybin.conf files you used?
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 10:08:44AM -0500, pohl wrote:
>
> Cool! Could you describe your partitioning scheme and attach
> the yaboot.conf and ybin.conf files you used?
Partitioning like so:
/dev/hda9 1 MB bootstrap partition (HFS)
hda10 1 GB macos partition (which I've never booted into...he
Thanks.
Josh wrote:
>
> I don't have a ybin.conf file. (don't use it...)
So you just manually enter OpenFirmware boot commands to boot?
What version of yaboot do you use?
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 10:57:47AM -0500, pohl wrote:
> So you just manually enter OpenFirmware boot commands to boot?
> What version of yaboot do you use?
I'm using 0.5, which is think is the latest version.
I just set the boot-device to hd:9,yaboot_0.5
(or something similar, I forget the exact
Josh Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I'm using 0.5, which is think is the latest version.
> I just set the boot-device to hd:9,yaboot_0.5
I think this explains the difference between your machine
and mine. I have been trying to make a partition of type
"Apple_Bootstrap" to install ybin onto. You,
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Ralf Herzog wrote:
> Is there a (even very little chance) to get something to boot (must not do
> usefull things) on a RS/6000 Model 250 (with a PPC [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
> MCA)? If
> there is work in progress for this machine, I can offer (due to my spare
> time) little suppor
Well, I fooled around a little last night. Finally logged in as a user
instead of root, booted X with no problems (well, still the font error, but it
doesn't seem to effect anything). Tracked the problem down to an & after the
window manager call in .xinitrc. Doesn't make much sense to me, as
Aaron Burt wrote:
> Third, the MCA RS/6000 machines have come up many times. Linux currently
> does not run on these machines. There is MCA support in the x86 branch,
> and its author tried to make it endian-neutral, but apparently the MCA in
> RS/6000 machines is rather more complicated and undo
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I haven't heard of anyone working on the MCA RS/6000's. You'd have
> some code to write I'm sure.
Ayuh. Glad I'm not the one to do it.
> Speaking from the perspective of "IBM help". What'cha need? Perhaps I
> might be able to first find it and se
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 11:29:59AM -0500, pohl wrote:
>
> Josh Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > I'm using 0.5, which is think is the latest version.
> > I just set the boot-device to hd:9,yaboot_0.5
>
> I think this explains the difference between your machine
> and mine. I have been trying to
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 10:00:49AM -0500, pohl wrote:
> > did you ever try a debug build of yaboot?
>
> Not yet. My pace of experimenting with it is very slow since
> I'm in the middle of upgrading from one house to another.
upgrading, heh i like that :)
> The ppclinux 2000 CD uses yaboot_0.5,
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Aaron Burt wrote:
> > Speaking from the perspective of "IBM help". What'cha need? Perhaps I
> > might be able to first find it and second get permission to send it your
> > way.
>
> Adam Fritzler appears to be the smart guy regarding the confluence of MCA
> and PPC. Though
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