Re: Floppy boot for powerpc: add video=ofonly?

2002-02-16 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 10:22:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > Many oldworld powerpc computers need the video=ofonly boot argument in > order to use the installer. The hfs-boot-floppy image we currently > provide does not supply this argument. > > I used a binary editor (beav) to add video=ofon

Re: [Debian-PowerMacs]Re: PM 7500 won't install s/w

2002-02-16 Thread eric.s.cote
on 15/02/2002 22:39, Chris Tillman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:19:47PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> on 14/02/2002 22:19, Chris Tillman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 04:38:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 14/02/2002 04:49,

Re: Kernel 2.4.17

2002-02-16 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Ricardo Pardini wrote: > > I use BootX. Is there some way smarter than this > to install new kernel? take a look a quik. > Can I somehow mount the MacOS partition and write > vmlinuz there? yes, you can use a spare partition (HFS or DOS formated). on my 9600 I use a 500Mb (

Re: Kernel 2.4.17

2002-02-16 Thread Rich Johnson
Ricardo Pardini wrote: > > I´m stuck with 2.4.8 - I´d like 2.4.17 for ext3 > and other stuff (netfilter etc). Can someone send > me instructions on either a) how to get a > debianized 2.4.17 kernel (?) or b) how/where to > rsync to benh´s (or whos-the-hottest) tree? I've been using benh's recen

Hangs on bootup unless monitor plugged in

2002-02-16 Thread Richard Barraclough
Hi, I'm running Debian 2.2.19 on a PowerMac 7200/90 which boots using Penguin. If I start up without a monitor plugged in the machine hangs when the MacOS disappears and Linux takes over. I noticed that when MacOS disappears the screen goes black with some white marks on, and then the usual Linux

Re: PM 7500 won't install s/w

2002-02-16 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > directory looking for these files (using a 'find' subprocess) you'd have > > to hack dkpg to omit directories named .resource or .finderinfo. > > When I tried that a couple of years ago I gave up due to generic > > dpkg build problems. Should not be too difficult with recent dpkg > > actually.

Re: [Debian-PowerMacs]Re: PM 7500 won't install s/w

2002-02-16 Thread Michael Schmitz
> is this possible tho: mounting an HFS+ disk (1/2 of my startup drive is Nope. Michael

Re: unp build failed - source not found!?

2002-02-16 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Checking available source versions... > > Can't find source for unp_1.0.5-5 > > Giving back package unp_1.0.5-5 after failure in fetch-src stage. > > Probably just an out-of-date mirror. Give the autobuilder a few days to > retry. If you take a look at the log date: that log's over a month ol

Re: Kernel 2.4.17

2002-02-16 Thread Lists
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 11:34:30AM +0100, Eric Deveaud wrote: > > I use BootX. Is there some way smarter than this > > to install new kernel? > take a look a quik. I did a few months ago. I had to run Apple's System Disk to patch my NVRAM/OpenFirmware so that it could boot without that horrible

Re: Kernel 2.4.17

2002-02-16 Thread Eric C. Cooper
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 03:38:36AM -0300, Ricardo Pardini wrote: > Can I use the kernel-source-2.4.17 source package > to begin with? Or do I need a BenH kernel? I am using kernel-source-2.4.17 with kernel-patch-benh package applied. Seems to work on my G4 Cube. -- Eric C. Cooper e c c

Testing boot-floppies on iMac

2002-02-16 Thread Matt Zimmerman
Yesterday, I got an iMac (NewWorld) to play with at work, and decided to install woody on it. It has no floppy drive, so the only bootable woody installation media that I could find were ISO images at: http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/ which I burned onto CD-R. Unfortunately, at the time

Re: [Debian-PowerMacs]Re: PM 7500 won't install s/w

2002-02-16 Thread eric.s.cote
on 16/02/2002 10:32, Michael Schmitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> directory looking for these files (using a 'find' subprocess) you'd have >>> to hack dkpg to omit directories named .resource or .finderinfo. >>> When I tried that a couple of years ago I gave up due to generic >>> dpkg build pro

Re: Floppy boot for powerpc: add video=ofonly?

2002-02-16 Thread Colin Walters
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 00:22, Chris Tillman wrote: > Many oldworld powerpc computers need the video=ofonly boot argument in > order to use the installer. The hfs-boot-floppy image we currently > provide does not supply this argument. > > I used a binary editor (beav) to add video=ofonly into the m

Re: Testing boot-floppies on iMac

2002-02-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sam, 2002-02-16 at 21:27, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > After all packages were installed, I set about trying to get X working, and > (after using the debconf prompts to get an initial configuration) co-workers > and I fiddled with it for some time before discovering that we had to > specify the PC

Re: Testing boot-floppies on iMac

2002-02-16 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:12:26AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Sam, 2002-02-16 at 21:27, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > initialization. I had a Device section specifying Driver "ati", but > > until I added the BusID parameter, it said that it couldn't find a > > matching device section for the ca

Re: Testing boot-floppies on iMac

2002-02-16 Thread Colin Walters
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 15:27, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Yesterday, I got an iMac (NewWorld) to play with at work, and decided to > install woody on it. It has no floppy drive, so the only bootable woody > installation media that I could find were ISO images at: > > http://people.debian.org/~ieure/ne

"Sign Message" icon in kmail is greyed out

2002-02-16 Thread Russell Hires
Hello, I'm using kmail for my email, but for some reason, the "Sign Message" icon in the new message window is greyed out. It didn't used to be...How can I get it back? Is this a bug? I have used it before to sign email messages, and I haven't made any configuration changes to kmail that would

Re: Testing boot-floppies on iMac

2002-02-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 07:25:59PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:12:26AM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > > On Sam, 2002-02-16 at 21:27, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > Also, how can I help to test future PowerPC boot-floppies? Is there > > > some way to network-boot this b

Re: Floppy boot for powerpc: add video=ofonly?

2002-02-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 06:41:02PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 00:22, Chris Tillman wrote: > Actually, I think the debian-safe option in the current b-f has the same > problem. We'll have to add some hackery to check whether video=ofonly > was given, and output that to the