, it is a 700 Mhz G3
> with 12 inch screen.
At www.fwb.com, Hard Disk Toolkit is said to do 'dynamic partition resizing'
and work with HFS+.
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swer to your question
would be to downgrade.
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On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 06:10:18PM +0100, umlt wrote:
> hi all
>
> i'm going to install debian on my beige G3,
>
> an easy question:
>
> can i use an 120 GB hardisk on that system ?
Keep any HFS partitions at 2GB or less
--
"The way the Romans made sure their bridges worked is what
we shou
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 08:14:50PM +0100, florian wrote:
>
> hi!
>
> i currently have a debian and mac os 9 installed. i was
> wondering if it could cause any trouble, if i install mac os
> 10.2 over the partion, which currently mac os 9 is using..
>
> the partitions are layed out like this:
>
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:40:56AM -0800, David Tisdell wrote:
> Hi all,
> I posted this a couple of days ago and haven't seen
> any replies yet. I am kind of deperate to get this
> solved. I have added a couple of additional pieces of
> information from a couple of things I tried since my
> first
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:26:40PM -0800, David Tisdell wrote:
> Thanks Chris,
> I know there is a powerpc driver for the adaptec card.
> I booted off of a YellowDog cd and was able to see my
> drives. I would prefer to run Debian if I can get it
> to install as I think the support, in general is
>
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:39:16AM -0800, Jim McLoughlin wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> I'm running a tiBook with OSX 10.2.3 and debianppc. My OSX install crashed
> a couple of days ago (not sure why), and none of the disk repair options
> (fsck, disk utility) are able to repair them. So I have a couple
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:34:44PM -0800, Jim McLoughlin wrote:
> Hi
>
> thanks for the tips
>
>
> You can 'apt-get install hfsplus', then use hpmount to "mount" the
> device, and hpcp to copy critical files off the filesystem. I'm not sure
> if hfsplus yet supports HFS+ writing, but for you
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 07:09:04PM -0800, Steven Schlansker wrote:
> (I hope this is the right list to post this on. If it's not, please
> tell me)
> I have just finished installing Debian, and I tried to make it
> bootable. I then restarted the machine, and Open Firmware popped up
> saying 'CLAI
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 06:26:37AM -0800, Steven Schlansker wrote:
> I thought it was actually referring to that all of the output would go
> to ttya, not just open firmware! And thanks for the info on nvsetenv,
> that's what I needed. My boot device is currently set to
> /bandit/ohare/ATA/[EMAI
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:38:04PM -0500, Allan Streib wrote:
> I'm setting up a PowerMac 6500. Since it only has 32MB RAM I am not going
> to run X Windows, but instead plan to use it as a light duty server. I
> previously had LinuxPPC 2000 Q4 running on this box and since that distro
> is no lo
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 12:49:50PM +0100, martin krung wrote:
> hi debian on powerpc user
>
> i installed debian on my beige G3, no problem till now:
>
> i have 2 disk, one untouched, with an Mac0S 9, and the other with debian
> and an HFS partiton on it. i boot with bootX over the MacOS
>
>
>
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 01:29:53PM +0100, Antonio Messina wrote:
> hi all,
>
> first of all excuse me for my poor english :-)
>
> I have an iBook2 with dual usb and firewire, cfr.
> http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-G3/ibook15Oct01/
>
> my modem not work
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:01:13AM +0100, martin krung wrote:
> thank you Derrik and all
>
> it worked.
> this tip helped me a lot.
> but one questions remain, whay this 2GB limitation ? if i use HFS only
> on an MacOS, then i can make partitons bigger then 2GB. so i guess its
> only possible to
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:26:07AM -0500, Allan Streib wrote:
> Still trying to get woody to install on my PowerMac 6500. I got through
> the install process to the point of "Make the system bootable" using quik
> (I never got to choose this, BTW.)
>
> It cannot. In the console log (Opt-F3) I se
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 05:05:38PM -0700, Philip Larkin Waters wrote:
> So, I used the Mach Kernel and the Apple Bootloader and I actually got some
> results!
>
> It was kinda cool...
> in any event I got the following error:
>
> VFS Cannot open root device sdb5 or 08:15
> Please appand a correc
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:58:05AM +, Paul Reilly wrote:
>
> I've just installed Debian 3.0r1 on my dual USB white
> iBook (500/10/CD) but I can't get X to start !
>
> I have done a apt-get to the latest dri-trunk version of XFree86
> but the error I am getting is that:
>
> (EE) No devices d
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 06:52:56AM -0700, Marvin Germain wrote:
> and then go black. I believe there is a 2.4 kernel on the Debian CD. Maybe
Yes, the new-powermac folder contains a 2.4 kernel. To install
successfully (so the modules match the kernel), use the root.bin
from the same folder. Th
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:35:02AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:30:59PM +1100, Ross Vumbaca wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Craig Morehouse wrote:
> > >Has anyone tried running Linux on this poard?
> > >
> > >If successful, please reply both on-list and off, if you don't mind.
> >
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 06:03:39AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 20:28:29 -0800, Brent Miller composed:
> > A friend of mine just gave me an old Power Computing PowerWave 604|120
> > that he had lying around, and not being much of a mac person, I decided
> > to throw deb
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:18:06PM +0100, manuel wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> I'm in a big trouble as I can't install Debian Woody on our Mac 9600.
> The problem is that the installer can't find my ide hard disk.
> I've got a mac 9600 with a G4 processor and with a scsi hard disk
> (debian installer fi
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 05:47:31PM -0800, Dylan Barrie wrote:
> I'm setting up my UMAX J700 with a G3/300 upgrade card to be a small
> CVS/web server, but I am having trouble getting Quik to work properly
> on it. I have Debian installed and working, but I am forced to start
> up from the MacOS
I built d-i on a stable powerpc machine, first installing the build
dependencies (in build/control) from sid.
libpopt0 (needed for pump-udeb) also needed to be upgraded to sid, the
stable version was insufficient. (I'm not sure if it should become a
bulid dependency as a result.)
I completed the
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 04:50:38PM -0800, Dylan Barrie wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 01:56 PM, Michel Lanners wrote:
> >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=173484
> >
> >That should solve your problem.
>
> Well, that fixed the DEFAULT CATCH! error, but I'm now getting C
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:30:49PM -0800, Dylan Barrie wrote:
> A thought just popped into my head (thanks to Nathanael Hasbrouck :)...
>
> Do I need to have any Mac OS partitions on the boot drive? I wiped the
> drive and re-mapped the partitions and all that when I installed
> Debian...
No, n
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:30:49PM -0800, Dylan Barrie wrote:
> A thought just popped into my head (thanks to Nathanael Hasbrouck :)...
>
> Do I need to have any Mac OS partitions on the boot drive? I wiped the
> drive and re-mapped the partitions and all that when I installed
> Debian...
One o
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:50:18PM -0800, Dylan Barrie wrote:
>
> On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 06:40 AM, Chris Tillman wrote:
> >How about posting the results of nvsetenv and cat /target/etc/quik.conf
> >from the installer shell, so we can catch up with where you'
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 11:51:05AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 21:20:44 -0800, Dylan Barrie composed:
> >
> > On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 07:32 PM, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > >Try
> > >
> > >chroot /target quik -v
>
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:33:45AM -0700, Philip Larkin Waters wrote:
> For anyone who can help, I don't know anything about my hardware and the
> installation is asking me for my device driver disk. I assume it is not in
> the standard woody or potato directories, and that I have to gather them
>
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:31:57PM +0100, Michel Lanners wrote:
> On 21 Jan, this message from Chris Tillman echoed through cyberspace:
> > Wow, Michel, I wonder if that's the same problem so many people
> > have getting the beige G3's to use quik?
>
> Most p
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 06:24:14PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On the initial power up (install floppy of Debian gives you a small penguin
> icon aftera macintosh icon) to a beige old world mac, what key combo will
> slow down the linux "bios"-esque screen at the start? If no key combo, is
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:41:13AM -0700, Philip Larkin Waters wrote:
> Thanks for everybody's help. I rebooted my machine and it flashes a floppy
> disk on the screen because it can't find the operating system: Just like
> everybody finally said it would do.
>
> If anybody can help me find wha
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 04:33:30PM -0500, Allan Streib wrote:
> Well what I've found seems to help is to execute:
>
> fbset -a -accel false
Thanks, Allan, this has been annoying me for a long time.
I think I'll add it in a little script in /etc/rc2.d/ .
> This (to my understanding) disables hard
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:35:10PM +0100, Fr?d?ric BOITEUX wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to PowerPC platform (but a user of Debian on i86), excuse me if I
> don't
> give the right information...
>
> I'm trying for the first time
> to install a Debian Woody on a Mac G3 : I don't know exac
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:35:31AM +0100, Peter Sperisen wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> Since I am getting started with Debian Linux am still struggling a bit
> with certain configuration problems. The first problem that I hav is
> probably a trivial one. I would like to have kdm start straight after
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:23:02PM -0600, Jon Michaelchuck wrote:
> Hi, I was playing around with moving/resizing some of my filesystems and
> messed up the partition table and ended up rm'n my /... Luckily I have
> backups.
>
> Now when I boot I can't get into OS X or Debian.. I just get that mac
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 08:13:33PM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
> Hello dear Friends
>
> I just installed the debian release 3.0 current in a Powerbook 3400c.
> I followed the instructions for harddisk installation, and installation
> went very well until I had to reboot the system. There a window
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 03:24:35PM -0500, Allan Streib wrote:
> Well I have debian woody running nicely on a PowerMac 6500 w/32 MB RAM.
> No X windows. I got a good deal on some RAM and I can max it out (128
> MB). So now what's the best way to get X and a gnome environment
> installed? It appea
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 02:02:35PM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
> Dear Friends
>
> After very successfully intalling debian 3.0 in my Powerbook 3400c, and
> using taskset to download all the deb packages I wanted, I don't have x
> windows running nor at any time I made the configuration of X window
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:45:58AM -0600, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote:
> Oh, and the OpenFirmware version doesn't want to boot off of yaboot's
> bootstrap partition: it says "hd:2,/vmlinux: Unknown or corrupt
> filesystem". I.e. it reaqds yaboot off of there, but doesn't read the
> kernel. I'
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:13:21PM +0100, Lars Munch wrote:
> Hi
>
> I tried to install Woody on a PowerBook G3 wallstreet but have problems.
> I am using the powermac installation floppies and booting on
> boot-floppy-hfs.img I get the following message:
>
> VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be lo
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:38:50PM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
>
> Another question... how I mount a HFS particion on Linux? I installed
> both hfsplus and hfsutils!
mount -t hfs
You can put it in /etc/fstab also
--
"The way the Romans made sure their bridges worked is what
we should do with s
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:55:54PM -0500, Gnu Improved Media wrote:
> I am wondering how succesful Debian runs on a Performa 6360?
>
> Is this model even considered a power mac?
>
> Will it run an X server?
>
> Audio?
Some people have had a hard time installing on it, but there
have been insta
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 03:13:39PM -0800, vinai wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Clive Menzies wrote:
>
> > Thanks for this. It raises a couple of questions:
> > 1. In the yaboot HOWTO it recommends re-ordering the Apple_bootstrap
> > partition to 2 - yours is on 9 and presumably works OK. Why the
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:19:21PM +0100, Winther wrote:
> Hi
>
> Im installing Debian on my Powermac 6400/200 (late stoneage hw)
>
> Everything seemed well until "Please, remove all floppy CD"
> And then Boot "for the very first time"
>
> It didnt boot
> The HD ran for 3 secs and then stopped
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 05:41:29PM -0500, Myria wrote:
>
> Hi List,
>
> The computer of interest is a Macintosh 9500 with a MaxPower G3 upgrade card
> at 300MHz. 117MB RAM, and three hd. 2 hd are on the internal scsi buss and
> one is on an Adaptec scsi controller. The primary (about 1.2GB) hd
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 11:25:08PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
> >Did you already post your yaboot.conf and /etc/fstab?
> This transcribed rather than cut and pasted and I've not included the
> comment lines
>
> yaboot.conf:
>
> boot=/dev/hda2 (where Apple_Bootstrap resides)
> magicboot=/usr/lib
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 07:23:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 1/28/2003 7:19:23 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > > I was intalling via 2 floppies (cuz my pps powerbase 240 mac clone can't
> do
> >
> > > CD boots) that pointed to a 7 CD set
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:35:18AM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
> >
> >Try, first: ybin -v to see if any errors are reported.
> I ran "/usr/sbin/ybin -b /dev/hda2 -v" and was asked if I wanted to
> create an HFS partition. I first answered No and it aborted; so I ran
> it again answering Yes and
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 06:41:22AM +, Carey Hackett wrote:
> Hello all...
>
> As is my wont in life, I seem to have picked a really
> difficult task for myself in deciding to turn my 1998
> G3 266 into a Linux box, and I have spent the entire
> weekend trying to get it installed.
>
> I built
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 04:11:38PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am planning to switch my PowerBook 1400cs to Debian Woody PowerPC port. I
> tried MkLinux before with some limited success. I mainly had problems with
> a considerable number of broken packages.
>
> I have a few qu
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:35:26AM +0100, Lars Munch wrote:
> Hi
>
> There is a bug in patch-floppy-image.pl. I tried using it as it is
> documented :
>
> ./patch-floppy-image.pl 'root=/dev/hda8' boot-floppy-hfs.img >
> boot-hfs-hda8.img
>
> but this gave me an image 1 byte smaller than the ori
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:53:31PM -0500, Joel Schander wrote:
> I'm attempting to install Debian 3.0r1 on a Umax SuperMac 603e/200. It
> is OldWorld, so I made floppies of the boot disk (boot-floppy-hfs.img)
> and root disk (root.bin). The former boots the box just fine, and the
> second is eject
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 12:14:12PM +0100, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corsetti
Dutra wrote:
> I hope this is not off-topic...
>
> I would like to make email or phone contact with users of Debian
> GNU/Linux PowerPC in São Paulo, Brasil.
>
> I need to have some desktop installations
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 02:26:45AM +0100, Mikael Westerberg wrote:
> Install documentation refers to using tftpboot.img to use with netboot, but
> I'm unable to find it in
> /dists/stable/main/disks-powerpc/current/new-powermac/
Boot-floppies for powerpc does not build a tftpboot.img. To see what
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 04:22:47PM -, Ian Rutson wrote:
> I have been given a Beige Mac G3/233/96Mb/4Gb
>
> I would like to use Linux and Mac OS dual boot on it.
>
> I have installed Debian Woody on a 2nd 200Mb hard drive to check everything
> is Ok and it works well. But I would like to giv
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 07:45:44PM -0800, Nathan S. wrote:
> I'm looking for a good tutorial that explains the rudimentary basics of
> c/c++ programming on linux. I recently (only a couple of months)
> switched to linux from MacOS because I wanted to get into programming,
> but it didn't make sens
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 01:55:03PM -0600, Craig P Steffen wrote:
> I just installed new-powerpc Debian (testing) on my Apple iBook. I dual-boot
> with Mac OS X. I am running the stock kernel that came with the new-powermac
> installation, 2.4.18-newpmac.
>
> When Linux boots, it sets is time to
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:20:22PM -0400, Michael Hackett wrote:
> I recently upgraded from the 2.2.20-pmac kernel to the 2.4.18-powerpc
> version, in order to get usb-storage support for my SmartMedia reader,
> and in doing so, I lost my console display. X still runs fine, and
> that's mostly what
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:58:51PM +0100, sleon wrote:
... root.bin floppy not accepted ...
Probably most list denizens would skip your wordy dialog,
it would be better to summarize the problem yourself next
time ...
I just downloaded and verified the current root.bin works on an
oldworld, so th
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:08:04PM -0800, peter wrote:
> dear folk,
>
> i am in need of step by step instruction to begin using kde.
>
> i have a fresh re-install of debian; the default runlevel is 2. i had the
> mistaken belief that typing
> X :0 kdm
> would put me into kde. what am i missing
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 02:09:10PM +0100, Lars Munch wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have an powerbook g3 (debian only) which I boot from floppies. To get
> it to boot from HD I need to patch open firmware (I think?!).
>
> Now my problem is that I do not have "System Disk" or a MAC OS boot disk
> and I cannot
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:17:56AM -0500, John van Vlaanderen wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I installed debian after OSX proved to be too unstable and complicated
> to create webserver appliance.
>
> I have a 400MHz 1 1/2 yr old iMac, though I cannot find any model
> information.
I think iMacs in this
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:10:47PM +0100, Eric Boese-Wolf wrote:
> Just download the package you used before.
> dpkg -e console-data-.deb .
> then copy the stuff you need, where you need it ;)
>
> If think it will go from ./usr/share/keymaps/azerty/blah to
> /usr/share/keymaps/azerty/blah use inst
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 08:01:10PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
>
> Hi Rolf,
>
> > How can I help out testing Sarge on IBM pSeries systems ( I have access to
> > a lab full of these systems )?
>
> Eventually Id like to see a debian CD that boots on pSeries boxes. I
> built a woody one recently
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 07:48:52PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 1 Mar, this message from Syd Bauman echoed through cyberspace:
> > I finally got a working monitor (an Apple Multiple Scan 1705 Display)
> > attached to the PowerComputing PowerTower Pro 225.
>
> According to
> http://www.ev
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:18:31PM +, Nicholas Helps wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> This is no doubt old hat to all you dyed in the wool linux people, but I'm
> fairly new to the game and so I am
> having a few problems. I'll briefly tell you what I have done and where I
> have gotten stuck at.
>
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
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:19:59PM +, Nicholas Helps wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Thanks for the comments on this. What solved it was redoing the "make system
> bootable" bit again (this sorted out
> the boot-device setting) and then just entering "Linux" at the boot: prompt.
> I did have to go
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 04:17:10PM +0100, Hans M wrote:
> Debian Linux
>
> Is there a graphic interface for installing
> a printer in Debian Linux KDE?
>
> The KDE System->Setup Printer is missing on the
> PowerPC Debian system I have installed.
>
> Can anyone please tell me how I define a print
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 06:33:27PM -0500, Shannon Neumann wrote:
> Has anyone had success getting X Windows set up on a beige G3? What
> settings are required? Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Shannon Neumann
> owner, Neumannweb Computers
> EML: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> WEB: http://www.neumannweb.
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 01:22:17AM +0100, D.S.E wrote:
> thanks, but I got this thing to work in the meantime.
> now there's an other problem ;-)
> with the yaboot-menu I only can boot linux, the option to boot macosx is
So, it's ignoring the macosx= line you put in yaboot.conf?
> missing in the
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 05:59:17PM +0100, Alessandro Selli wrote:
> Hello,
> I've been trying to install a PPC Debian Woody on an IBM RS6000
> 7248-120 machine. Using the System Management Services floppy all the
> hardware tests succeed and I can set the machine to boot from floppy first,
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 12:27:20AM +0100, Peter M. Lemmen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently inherited an old PowerBook G3 (Oldworld, I believe. It wouldn't
> boot the CD, and BootX is working fine.) and have been installing Debian on
> it. It actually went quite well, with only a minor heart-attack w
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 04:24:03PM -0800, Matthew Richardson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get Debian 3.0r1 running as the only OS on a beige G3. So
> far, I've gotten through the install process and rebootedand
> nothing. On the first reboot, I get an Open Firmware-type screen with
> the m
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 08:22:46PM -0800, Forrest L Norvell wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 04:24:03PM -0800, Matthew Richardson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to get Debian 3.0r1 running as the only OS on a beige G3. So
> > far, I've gotten through the install process and rebootedand
> >
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 03:56:17PM +0900, Zea wrote:
> Hi everyone:
> I'm new to debian and tried to install it in PPC G3 beige. But at the
> end of installation when I selected "make the system bootable" something
> like this appeared: "could not install quik because the open firmware
> device cou
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:03:04PM -0800, Pietro Calogero wrote:
> Dear Chris,
> Just loaded Woody onto PowerMac 9500 for the first time. I have 2
> problems I need help with, and based on reading of Debain archive, I
> think you could help with at least one, and give suggestions for the other:
>
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:19:19AM +0100, Raphael Calvelli wrote:
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Now, a question that will look stupid to many, but useful to 5,9 billion
> people that didn't deeply read all the docs ;-) :
>
> I have sarge. Can I use sid version of this program, without using sid
> for all
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:28:23PM +0100, Jean-Christophe Michel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use a testing on Pismo G3. After I made a dist-upgrade to update all
> packages on hold, aptitude asked to remove php4 package because an unmet
> dependancy with libc6 (it seems to me...)
> I need php4. How can I
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:32:44PM +, Benjamin Swatek wrote:
> Hi,
> finaly i got it all debian and the XServer working (i was the one
> searching for the ~).
> now i somehow destroyed kde, i tried to upgrade it via apt-get from
> http://download.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian/ woody
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 05:40:26PM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
>
> I tried to solve this problem this week as well. It seems that it's not
> possible to play audio CDs in KDE (through arts) on NewWorld ppc machines.
>
> KsCD doesn't actually read the CD data, but controls the track movement and
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:03:34PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote:
> Hi.. I just tried upgrading the kernel on my ibook2 from 2.4.20-ben1 to ben8
> (so
> that I could get suspend working).. looks like I have a whole bunch of other
> problems to solve now:
>
> 1. The keyboard mapping has all gone bad
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 07:52:11PM +0100, Tobias Stefan Richter wrote:
> I tried to install Woody on a Umax Pulsar. First part
> with installing base packages was ok, but it failed on
> the first reboot (using quik as suggested by the installer).
> No screen output at all (monitor going to power s
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 04:26:11PM -0500, Shannon Neumann wrote:
> I am having trouble getting my Asante NIC card to work on my Powermac
> 6500. It shows up using lspci as a Linksys LNE100TX, but when I try to
> compile the drivers according to the Linksys instructions, I get errors.
> Any ideas o
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:06:52PM +0100, Tobias Stefan Richter wrote:
> In linux.debian.ports.powerpc, you wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 07:52:11PM +0100, Tobias Stefan Richter wrote:
> >> I finally got hold of a adb->serial adapter to see the
> >> openfirmware prompt and could boot the comp
er.
I've just begun developing a help app targeted to complete linux
newbies, but with a Debian slant. Would either of you like to try out
the very preliminary version and give me some feedback? (If so,
contact me off-list at [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
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one so with PPC. Can I download the same kernel sources, or are
> their special sources specific to PPC?
Look for the benh kernel at penguinppc.org.
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you _are_ the aforementioned wizards.
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ives for posts on batteries around 4 months
ago. IIRC, one conclusion was that some iBook models had defective
batteries and Apple was replacing them.
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; > >
> > > Rolf
> > >
> > > --
> > > Rolf Brudeseth
> > > pSeries System Engineering & Integration, IBM Enterprise Systems Group
> > > Austin, TX
> >
> > Bad news, Rolf. I think you _are_ the aforementioned wizards.
> >
&g
d be very useful.
> Thanks,
> Herb Howe
Searching the list archives, I found one posted in May 2001;
and it's still there:
http://home.uchicago.edu/~obmontoy/XF86Config-4
Dunno if it will work.
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gt;
> many thanks!
I did a google search for 'carolina 604e chrp' and the first hit was
a very nice page
http://home.tiscali.be/philipa/rs6000.html
There's also a link to Rolf's HOWTO at
http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/
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sysctl.conf:
>
> dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation=1
> dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode=68
> dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode=87
Except, here, F11 is 87 and F12 is 88.
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tos or articles
> on this subject but when you look for "debian install
> powerbook" at google you are flooded with all kinds
> of translations of debian's own install manual...
>
Actually many of these are quite useful, although you
should make sure they are talking about G3 powerbook,
not newer powerbooks or ibooks.
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gt; and fix my rootfs.
>
Calm, peace, ooohm.
http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/keycodes
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know what you try and what errors you get. I
just put a new ide drive in my PowerMac 180, and set it up for quik. I
used a boot-device setting of
ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:6
(because my root is on partition 6) - and that works. Mind you, this is not a
G3.
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sending linux keycodes from the keymap. I saw this too.
> Anyway, thanks for the pointer. It gives me more things to try.
>
> I'll let you know how things turn out
>
> Oooom,
there you go. I saw where you restored the old keymap, you're
well on your way. Take a
PageDown don't work.
Don't know about your key problem, but are you using quik to boot?
If so, could you share your boot-device setting?
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, then it stops to ask for the root disk.
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