Re: Nubus machines wanted (was: Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts)

2006-08-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (25/08/06 00:04), Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > I am not so inclined to post here, because I do not want to buy > anything (especially old hardware), but I take the opportunity > to state that I am looking for Nubus machines to renew the Nubus > subarch on 2.6 kernels and to port EMILE (the Mac68k bo

Re: Nubus machines wanted (was: Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts)

2006-08-25 Thread Clive Menzies
On (25/08/06 03:34), Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > Yes, I am interested in it. England is not so far from France, but > there is the Channel between us... Maybe do you appear to cross the > EuroTunnel to come next year to the FOSDEM in Bruxelles? ;) I'll contact the school and see whether they've made

Re: Nubus machines wanted (was: Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts)

2006-10-04 Thread Clive Menzies
On (25/08/06 11:28), Clive Menzies wrote: > On (25/08/06 03:34), Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > > Yes, I am interested in it. England is not so far from France, but > > there is the Channel between us... Maybe do you appear to cross the > > EuroTunnel to come next year to th

Re: mount hfs+ partition

2006-10-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (30/10/06 09:48), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is what I have to work with: > > debian-31r3-powerpc-netinst.iso install on a wallstreet: > old world, sonnet G3 500, 318 meg ram, cdrom, floppy > > Turned off journaling on my osx volume and checked and it is says no > under journaling > I h

Re: Newbie help with X Server on ibook G3

2006-11-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/11/06 14:58), James Dunn wrote: > I am trying to get Debian up and running on my iBook G3, 900Mhz, 640MB > RAM. I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserverxfree86 and then edited the > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file with nano as it was still not working. I > amended the file according to this: > http://w

Re: PowerMac G4 : how to enable the server mode ?

2006-11-27 Thread Clive Menzies
On (27/11/06 19:14), Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 06:52:46PM +0100, Frédéric Massot wrote: > > I will like that my server G4 boot again when restore on AC power. I > > believe that it is a question of enabling the "server mode". > > > > In dmesg I have : via-pmu: Server Mode is di

Re: PowerMac G4 : how to enable the server mode ?

2006-11-28 Thread Clive Menzies
On (28/11/06 10:26), Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > I found this through Rich Johnson, the maintainer of the "autoboot" > > utility.. and I've just pulled plug on one of our G4 servers and lo! > > the server_mode=1 survived the reboot. It also remains after a > > conventional reboot. > > Y

Re: PowerMac G4 : how to enable the server mode ?

2006-11-28 Thread Clive Menzies
On (28/11/06 10:56), Frédéric Massot wrote: > Yes, there is the package "powerpc-utils" and the command "autoboot" : > > AUTOBOOT(8) > NAME > autoboot - tool for setting/resetting servermode booting of PowerMacs > SYNOPSIS >autoboot [-v] on >autoboot [-v] off >autoboot -V

Problem with bzip2 sources in sid

2006-11-29 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi For the last 24 hours 'aptitude update' gets 99% of the files but just hangs on the bzip2 source. Removing deb-src from the sources list eliminates the problem. Anyone else seeing this? Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Can't boot Mac OSX after installing Etch

2007-01-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/01/07 16:49), Ananda Samaddar wrote: > I am new to the PPC platform after having use either Debian or Ubuntu > on X86 for a while now. I would describe myself as an intermediate > user, I can usually get most things working on my own, but this one > has got me stumped. > > After selecting

Re: Unstable?

2007-02-14 Thread Clive Menzies
> At Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:24:05 +, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > Is anyone running unstable at the minute and if yes, what is it's > > current state like? I'm thinking of biting the bullet and upgrading > > this little gem of an iBook to Sid. I've got everything more

Re: Cheap powerbook in the UK?

2007-02-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/02/07 20:52), Ananda Samaddar wrote: > I like my current iBook a lot but it's a bit slow for some of my > needs. I was hoping someone on this list could point me to somewhere > I can get a used / refurbished Powerbook G4 from at a reasonable > price. Please don't say eBay! My housemate ru

Re: Help needed with Powerbook G4

2007-02-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/02/07 21:04), Ananda Samaddar wrote: > I like my current iBook a lot but it's a bit slow for some of my > needs. I was hoping someone on this list could point me to somewhere > I can get a used / refurbished Powerbook G4 from at a reasonable price > in the UK. Please don't say eBay! My ho

PCI RAID card recognised but disks don't show - G4

2008-12-11 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi I've got a PowerMac G4 QuickSilver (OpenFirmware 3) which I'm setting up as a file server. Etch is installed on /dev/hda and is working fine. I bought a PCI IDE2 card to add two additional 750Gb ide drives which I propose to configure as RAID1 using mdadm for /home. However, the card is

Re: user without root privilege

2009-01-13 Thread Clive Menzies
the grv wrote: Hi list. Sorry for my bad english. Into my powerbook 1,67, i have debian lenny testing with 2 user: normal user and root. I not istall GDM and i can open X with the command "startx". my problem is that the normal user not have a simple command as "ifconfig". Bash reply me that

Re: Can't start installation via yaboot at OpenFirmware prompt

2002-07-09 Thread Clive Menzies
appeared "untitled" disk icon, and rebooted into OpenFirmware. I then tried "boot hd:2,yaboot" all the way through "boot hd:10,yaboot", and they all reported the same thing: "can't OPEN: hd:2,yaboot" (or something similar). Next suggestion from anyo

Re: ISO Images for Woody

2002-07-15 Thread Clive Menzies
I could download the ISO images for Woody? Try: http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist Regards Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory Road, London N8 8LR d/l: 020 8348 0996 fax: 087 0052 4348 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Fw: Woody install docs and Nubus

2002-07-17 Thread Clive Menzies
I am going to take your suggestion and re-install potato, and when I get to defining the dislay, I'll take some serious notes.   Joel > > Could you take a moment to send me the site name from which you obtained the > > install-disk-images?  I hope you have some sort of log as

Fwd: Re: Fw: Woody install docs and Nubus

2002-07-19 Thread Clive Menzies
machine. Is there a generic alternative? TIA Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory Road, London N8 8LR d/l: 020 8348 0996 fax: 087 0052 4348 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Fwd: Re: Fw: Woody install docs and Nubus

2002-07-19 Thread Clive Menzies
At 1:51 pm +0200 19/7/02, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 13:05, Clive Menzies wrote: >I tried to install potato on a Mac 8100/80 (Nubus) earlier this year >but failed get floppy access, ppp or X working. > >I've just installed ADSL on an ethernet network here wh

Re: Fwd: Re: Fw: Woody install docs and Nubus

2002-07-19 Thread Clive Menzies
At 2:59 pm +0200 19/7/02, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 14:46, Clive Menzies wrote: > >> Starting X gives: >> >> Fatal server error >> no screens found >> >> Searching the lists and web revealed no solution and so I've repeat

Re: Fwd: Re: Fw: Woody install docs and Nubus

2002-07-19 Thread Clive Menzies
At 7:15 am -0700 19/7/02, Chris Tillman wrote: On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 02:33:24PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: At 2:59 pm +0200 19/7/02, Michel D?nzer wrote: >On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 14:46, Clive Menzies wrote: > > >> Starting X gives: >> >> >> >> Fata

Re: Infinite loop entering PCI Bus Ident during debconf of X

2002-07-19 Thread Clive Menzies
e leaving things broken). Then I ran "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86", and this time when it asked for the PCI bus identifier, instead of entering PCI:0:16:0 like the default, i entered PCI:00:16:00 which worked. Go figure. Kent In the upgrade from potato t

Re: Fwd: Re: Fw: Woody install docs and Nubus

2002-07-20 Thread Clive Menzies
built the Mac side to get back into Linux. Regards At 7:08 pm -0700 19/7/02, Chris Tillman wrote: On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 04:12:51PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: At 7:15 am -0700 19/7/02, Chris Tillman wrote: >Here's what happened: > >http://www.debian

Re: Fwd: Re: Fw: Woody install docs and Nubus

2002-07-20 Thread Clive Menzies
At 1:08 pm -0700 20/7/02, Chris Tillman wrote: On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 04:12:18PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:> As part of the process of booting into Linux, Lilo is configured in the MkLinux control panel on the Mac side. In there I set rootdev=/dev/sdb6. So I'll try you

Kernel with Debian Potato installer

2002-07-23 Thread Clive Menzies
v/ram. The good news is that the Mach_Kernel found through the link on your site: http://www.symsys.com/~ingram/hardware/powermac/potato-install.html (Debian/Potato Install Guide maintained by Greg Ingram) works fine. Thanks Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for

Re: Fwd: Re: Fw: Woody install docs and Nubus

2002-07-23 Thread Clive Menzies
Title: Re: Fwd: Re: Fw: Woody install docs and Nubus At 11:23 pm -0700 20/7/02, Chris Tillman wrote: On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 11:27:23PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Currently doing a low level format on the original Hard Disk and will > hopefully load 8.6 onto that.  Is there any

Re: Fwd: Re: Fw: Woody install docs and Nubus

2002-07-24 Thread Clive Menzies
notes of any use? Should I submit them for woody install docs? The next challenge is to get X working ;-) Regards Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory Road, London N8 8LR d/l: 020 8348 0996 fax: 087 0052 4348 -

Installing Woody (3.0) on PowerPC 8100/80 (Nubus) - needs Mach_Kernel

2002-07-24 Thread Clive Menzies
to be aware of - see: http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/keycodes (important information regarding key mapping - ignore this at your peril!) http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/powerpc/release-notes/ch-upgrading http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200202/msg01868.ht

startx on NuBus Mac gives Fatal server error

2002-08-11 Thread Clive Menzies
ot: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci So even if I resolve the mouse problem there is possibly another obstacle to getting X working? TIA -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory Road, London N8 8LR d/l: 020 8348 0996 fax: 087 0052 4348

Re: startx on NuBus Mac gives Fatal server error

2002-08-12 Thread Clive Menzies
with Apple + Fn but Tab/arrow keys seem to take me around the desktop but not in any way that's useful. Where do I go from here? Is there another way of setting up adbmouse and BusMouse protocol? TIA Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.cli

Fwd: Re: startx on NuBus Mac gives Fatal server error

2002-08-12 Thread Clive Menzies
ab/arrow keys seem to take me around the desktop but not in any way that's useful. Where do I go from here? Is there another way of setting up adbmouse and BusMouse protocol? TIA Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory Roa

Re: UK ADSL Modem advice wanted

2002-09-23 Thread Clive Menzies
tworked 2 pc's and 2 mac's using the Vigor 2600 ADSLModem/Router (ethernet) which works well too. HTH Regards Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory Road, London N8 8LR d/l: 020 8348 0996 fax: 087 0705 2066

Fwd: Re: debian on 4400

2002-10-29 Thread Clive Menzies
Title: Fwd: Re: debian on 4400 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:20:43 + To: samuel desseaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: debian on 4400 Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: hello! just one question: is it possible to install debian on an old mac (i&#

Re: useful links

2002-10-31 Thread Clive Menzies
our posting has given me new inspiration - thanks again Regards Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory Road, London N8 8LR d/l: 020 8348 0996 fax: 087 0705 2066

Re: useful links

2002-10-31 Thread Clive Menzies
ee these old macs being put to use-- they are great machines for low volume servers and the like. heck, my own personal web site is hosted on an LC 475! nothing fancy, but it does the job! It does ;-) Regards Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory Road, London N8 8LR d/l: 020 8348 0996 fax: 087 0705 2066

Re: install on 6100/66

2002-10-31 Thread Clive Menzies
does anybody have a how-to on this that is not already linked to off of any of the powerpc-or-linux sites? thanx, ken see http://fungus.ucdavis.edu/~dylan/ and "useful links" posted on this list Regards Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies

Re: useful links & one caveat: apt over ssh

2002-11-01 Thread Clive Menzies
;ll send you an updated version. Regards Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory Road, London N8 8LR d/l: 020 8348 0996 fax: 087 0705 2066

Re: useful links & one caveat: apt over ssh

2002-11-09 Thread Clive Menzies
to learn how to use the command line ;-) Regards Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory Road, London N8 8LR d/l: 020 8348 0996 fax: 087 0705 2066

Re: New sources.list line for Mac-on-Linux

2002-11-19 Thread Clive Menzies
by editing by hand? TIA Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory Road, London N8 8LR d/l: 020 8348 0996 fax: 087 0705 2066

Re: New sources.list line for Mac-on-Linux

2002-11-19 Thread Clive Menzies
At 2:12 pm -0500 19/11/02, christophe barbe wrote: On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 06:11:12PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: However, I now have nothing else in sources.list. Is there a simple way of recovering the original other than by editing by hand? apt-setup Thanks - I should have studied the

Re: New sources.list line for Mac-on-Linux

2002-11-19 Thread Clive Menzies
Sorry for the naive questions ;-) Regards Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory Road, London N8 8LR d/l: 020 8348 0996 fax: 087 0705 2066

Fwd: Re: New sources.list line for Mac-on-Linux

2002-11-19 Thread Clive Menzies
t;info mol", I realise it was probably a mistake ;-) Sorry for the naive questions ;-) Regards Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory Road, London N8 8LR d/l: 020 8348 0996 fax: 087 0705 2066 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

xdm v gdm

2002-11-21 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi I've recently installed woody (8100/80) and during the installation selected xdm as the window manager. Gnome doesn't seem to like xdm. How do I switch from xdm to gdm and what is the difference between them? TIA Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategie

Re: xdm v gdm

2002-11-21 Thread Clive Menzies
egards Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory Road, London N8 8LR d/l: 020 8348 0996 fax: 087 0705 2066

Re: xdm v gdm

2002-11-21 Thread Clive Menzies
what is the difference between them? This is being controlled by the startup-scripts in /etc/rc?.d/ . Just disable xdm and enable gdm. Read the manpage of "update-rc.d" . Bye, claas -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk

Re: xdm v gdm

2002-11-21 Thread Clive Menzies
. Read the manpage of "update-rc.d" . easier: dpkg-reconfigure xdm (or gdm, kdm, or wdm) The display managers in Debian cooperate on choosing the default. Thanks David Regards Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.c

Re: xdm v gdm

2002-11-21 Thread Clive Menzies
At 3:15 pm -0800 21/11/02, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: The display managers in Debian cooperate on choosing the default. FYI. The more general way to handle these types of configurations is to use the command update-alternatives Thanks Wilhelm Regards Clive -- Clive Menzies

Re: 7100/80

2002-11-22 Thread Clive Menzies
e. Anybody have any suggestions (I need a smaller kernel that doesn't require so much memory I think, plus it was a used MAC and I don't know where to get MACOS installation disks for 8.6) Hi Philip Try http://fungus.ucdavis.edu/~dylan/index.php Regards Clive -- Clive Menzies &

Re: beige g3 stopped responding (firmware problem?)

2002-11-29 Thread Clive Menzies
this problem in the past I've managed to boot using an external Jaz drive (SCSI). I installed MacOS8.6 on the Jaz drive from another Mac then plugged the Jaz into the sick machine. To boot, cmd+opt+shft+delete tells the mac to skip the first device on the scsi chain. HTH Clive -- C

Re: trackpad / keyboard

2002-12-05 Thread Clive Menzies
/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode = 87 # Send right mouse button signal with the F12 key /dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode = 88 # For different keys, use showkey to tell you what the code is Regards Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-14 Thread Clive Menzies
inaries> -ms You should also look at: http://fungus.ucdavis.edu/~dylan/index.php I've successfully installed woody on an 8100/80 using the 2.4.19 kernel Regards Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory Road

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-15 Thread Clive Menzies
(3.0) packages I want. I put my installation notes up at http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk/nubus_woody.htm Regards Clive - Original Message - From: "Clive Menzies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Marc Stergionis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Debian List" Sent

Re: Got this far on a 7100/80

2003-01-15 Thread Clive Menzies
u into the installation screen you can then install woody from the net. Good luck Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory Road, London N8 8LR d/l: 020 8348 0996 fax: 087 0705 2066

Re: Got this far on a 7100/80

2003-01-15 Thread Clive Menzies
d boot you into the installation screen you can then install woody from the net. Good luck Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory Road, London N8 8LR d/l: 020 8348 0996 fax: 087 0705 2066

Re: What is /dev/ram

2003-01-15 Thread Clive Menzies
;ve copied into your Mac system folder.  After installation you edit lilo.conf to boot from the linux root partition that you've initialised and installed during the installation process. These Nubus machines are quirky but if you follow the instructions it should get you the

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-16 Thread Clive Menzies
uldn't get it to work under potato either. Someone suggested it may be related to SWIM II v SWIM III - I can't remember the details. Regards Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory Road, London N8 8LR d/l: 020 8348 0996 fax: 087 0705 2066

Re: archives?

2003-01-16 Thread Clive Menzies
At 1:20 pm -0500 16/1/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: before I post, I'm curious to whether there is an archive for this mail list. thanks ahead of time http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/ Regards Clive -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for busin

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-16 Thread Clive Menzies
At 11:14 am -0500 16/1/03, Derrik Pates wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:06:13AM +, Clive Menzies wrote: Incidentally, have you managed to read floppies at all? I haven't spent much time on it 'cos I don't need floppy access; I couldn't get it to work under pot

Re: MkLinux Freezes

2003-01-22 Thread Clive Menzies
ested through it." dylan At 4:57 pm -0700 22/1/03, Philip Larkin Waters wrote: I am trying to put MachKernel on a PPC 7100/80 (NuBus) and it freezes on setup_arch()   what is this, and can you help me know how to fix it? -- Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-24 Thread Clive Menzies
previously. Do you have a broadband connection? Regards Clive Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory Road, London N8 8LR d/l: 020 8348 0996 fax: 087 0705 2066

dhcp-client v pump

2003-01-28 Thread Clive Menzies
t /etc/network/interfaces to read: # For a dynamic setup with dhcp you need: iface eth0 inet dhcp auto eth0 Magic ;-) Cheers Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory Road, London N8 8LR d/l: 020 8348 0996 fax: 087 0705 2066

Re: dhcp-client v pump

2003-01-29 Thread Clive Menzies
cquired a G4 and I intend to install Woody on that - perhaps I'll revisit it then. Regards Clive On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 02:57 PM, christophe barbe wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:22:46PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: It seems that dhcp-client works with 2.2.x kernels but is

Installing Woody on PowerMacG4 AGP - Yaboot from which partition?

2003-02-05 Thread Clive Menzies
r 14, 6 Feb 5 22:19 disk0s6 brw-r- 1 rootoperator 14, 7 Feb 5 22:19 disk0s7 brw-r- 1 rootoperator 14, 8 Feb 5 22:19 disk0s8 brw-r- 1 rootoperator 14, 9 Feb 5 22:19 disk0s9 Is it likely to be partition 10 I need being the last one o the disk? TIA Clive ___

Re: Installing Woody on PowerMacG4 AGP - Yaboot from which partition?

2003-02-05 Thread Clive Menzies
Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 10:45 pm, Clive Menzies wrote: Hi I've read the docs for a diskless install but am having trouble indentifying which partition to enter into yaboot for OF booting. I'm running OSX on the first half of the disk and have formatted the other half as HFS

Re: Installing Woody on PowerMacG4 AGP - Yaboot from which partition?

2003-02-05 Thread Clive Menzies
Doh! I'd put the boot files on the wrong partition... I can now get into the installation window. I'll leave you all in peace. Thanks Clive On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 12:24 am, Clive Menzies wrote: Hi Setup as follows: 30Mb disk partitioned with OSX (and Classic

Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-06 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi I've read Chris's excellent HOWTO on Booting with Yaboot on PowerPC and the penguinppc.org mac-fdisk doc. Have created and reordered the Apple-Bootstrap partition to /dev/hda2. I can OF boot Linux and can get into OSX by holding down Option key during start-up. But I am having trouble g

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-07 Thread Clive Menzies
On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 03:05 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I've run ybin after changes But straight booting sticks on something like "Starting bootstrap second stage " and just stops. If I reboot into OF and ty

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-07 Thread Clive Menzies
rate boot partition (other than the yaboot one). Regards Clive Clive Menzies wrote: Hi I've read Chris's excellent HOWTO on Booting with Yaboot on PowerPC and the penguinppc.org mac-fdisk doc. Have created and reordered the Apple-Bootstrap partition to /dev/hda2. I can OF boot Lin

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-07 Thread Clive Menzies
On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 08:37 pm, Derrik Pates wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:42:21PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: Doesn't seem to help. I checked the man yaboot.conf page; it refers to HFS+ but my set-up is totally HFS. No, if you're running OS X off of it, it&#x

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 06:32 pm, J Q Private wrote: But I am having trouble getting Yaboot to work properly. OSX 10.2 was installed over OS 9,2 on the same HFS partition (/dev/hda10). Partition Map /dev/hda1 Apple_bootstrap /dev/hda2 Apple_Driver 43 /dev/hda3 Apple_Driver 43 /dev/hda

Re: The SmokeTest : Black Terrazzo Screen, No Boot, No Woody

2003-02-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 09:19 pm, 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 The screen

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 11:13 pm, 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

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 10:26 pm, Chris Tillman wrote: 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

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 04:19 am, Chris Tillman wrote: On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 11:25:08PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: yaboot.conf: boot=/dev/hda2 (where Apple_Bootstrap resides) magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot brokenosx (added as a suggested fix but makes no difference) macosx=hd

Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

2003-02-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 03:23 pm, Chris Tillman wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:35:18AM +, Clive Menzies wrote: [snip] I have progress of sorts in that it will now boot into OSX (without having to hold Option on start-up) but I still need OF (Cmd+Opt+O+F) to boot Linux

Re: Pine for Debian

2003-02-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 01:51 am, Rogério Brito wrote: On Feb 23 2003, Sven Luther wrote: I think mutt can be made to behave like pine with regards to keybindings or something such, but when i was personally faced with this problem, i just became used to mutt. I think that I

Re: Debian on the new powerbook 12'1

2003-03-01 Thread Clive Menzies
/proc proc /dev/fd0/floppy auto /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 /dev/hda13 /usrext2 /dev/hda14 /varext2 /dev/hda15 /tmpext2 /dev/hda16 /home ext2 HTH Clive ____ Clive Menzies & Associate

Re: Powerbook G4 12" and Debian

2003-03-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 03:47 pm, Philippe Sainte-Marie wrote: As Alejandro, i'm also trying to get my Debian to work with my Powerbook. I've read all threads about the yaboot issue, but as i'm not an expert with all this kind of stuff, i don't understand how you guys manage to install

Re: 12" powerbook - no harddisc

2003-03-09 Thread Clive Menzies
ey (keyid 0x2C447AFC)). 1.3.9 needs to go in anyway since the new powerbooks (and all macos9-free models) will not boot yaboot prior to 1.3.9." Regards Clive ________ Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory

Re: Internet connection test fails on PowerBookG3

2003-03-14 Thread Clive Menzies
o the installation using MacOS to download the latest floppy images with the newer kernel? Regards Clive Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory Road, London N8 8LR d/l: 020 8348 0996 fax: 087 0705 2066

Re: is my ppc dead?

2003-03-25 Thread Clive Menzies
    label=linux     read-only   I forgot (yes, I idiot) to run quik in the command line after that, rebooting the machine without the changes. But the ppc did not restart... I tried it with the rescue disk, with the same result. Is my ppc dead? what can i do? Clive

Re: Debian on the new powerbook 12'1

2003-03-01 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi I had similar trouble on my G4 which was solved by installing a later version of yaboot than the one that ships with woody. I've installed Yaboot-1.3.8-rc4 which works fine "out of the box". Since then there have been 2 more releases of yaboot, the latest being 1.3.10 Yaboot 1.3.10 is a

Re: Install problem, no boot after all

2003-04-06 Thread Clive Menzies
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Re: Install problem, no boot after all

2003-04-06 Thread Clive Menzies
ed system as well;)? Is there any way to boot the installed system from MacOS or from a custom made boot-floppy? Many thanks, Tamas PS: The MacOS version is 7.5.3. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clive Menzies Sent: Sunday, April 0

Re: would this break my debian installation?

2003-04-07 Thread Clive Menzies
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Re: would this break my debian installation?

2003-04-07 Thread Clive Menzies
On Monday, April 7, 2003, at 03:08 pm, Gary Sandine wrote: On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 04:12, Clive Menzies wrote: I am no expert but I'm sure I've read here and elsewhere that the MacOS Apple boot block needs to be the first partition on the disk. Certainly when I installed Debian

Re: sync palm

2003-04-08 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Zeno pilot-manager is what you need. If you search in dselect ("/" pilot) , there are a number of packages for the palm Regards Clive On Tuesday, April 8, 2003, at 07:30 am, Zeno Davatz wrote: hi list is there a package i can install to sync my palm and backup my data of my palm?

Re: installing Woody on 8100/80

2003-04-11 Thread Clive Menzies
o's machine and booted into Linux. The console comes up, and a lot flashes by. So far so good. However, after that, by screen turns black (well not exactly black, but like in screensaver mode). Do you have an idea what is going on here? thanks, Hendrik Clive Menzies & Associate

Lost Network connection after kernel recompile on G4

2003-04-26 Thread Clive Menzies
Any suggestions or comments would be appreciated. Thanks Clive ________ Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory Road, London N8 8LR d/l: 020 8348 0996 fax: 087 0705 2066

Fwd: Lost Network connection after kernel recompile on G4

2003-04-26 Thread Clive Menzies
d they are the first and sixth options in the Network options section of the kernel config. I hadn't included Socket_Filtering - I did so, recompiled and Hey Presto DHCP works ;-) Regards Clive Begin forwarded message: From: Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat Apr 26, 200

Re: Lost Network connection after kernel recompile on G4

2003-04-27 Thread Clive Menzies
04-26 at 17:53, Clive Menzies wrote: Hi I have a PowerMac G4 (Gigabit ethernet) 450Mhz dual processor. It has been working fine on the LAN using the standard 2.4.18 kernel. Currently I'm still dual booting (MacOSX) using Yaboot 1.3.8. I recompiled the kernel for SMP support and after a coupl

Can't play audio CD's on G4 (woody)

2003-04-28 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi I've been trying to get my head around sound. I've recompiled the kernel, 2.4.18 powerpc, making sure that the soundcore module is included. I've created a symlink cdrom > /dev/hdc in /dev. I've made myself a member of group audio. I've chown'ed the cdrom in /dev to group audio. /dev/dsp i

Re: Can't play audio CD's on G4 (woody)

2003-04-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 12:17 pm, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Die, 2003-04-29 at 01:49, Clive Menzies wrote: I've recompiled the kernel, 2.4.18 powerpc, making sure that the soundcore module is included. soundcore will be dragged in by the actual sound driver. Is CONFIG_DMASOUND

Re: Can't play audio CD's on G4 (woody)

2003-04-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/04/03 17:25), Georg Koss wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 01:25:33PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > >>When I try to play a CD using Xmms it can't seem to read > > >>the Audio CD and suggests I make sure I have the requisite permissions > > >

Re: Can't play audio CD's on G4 (woody)

2003-04-30 Thread Clive Menzies
Thanks Jamie I'll check it out ;-) Regards Clive On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 03:24 pm, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Clive Menzies wrote: exist" (but it does). When I try to play a CD using Xmms it can't seem to read the Audio CD and suggest

Re: Can't play audio CD's on G4 (woody)

2003-04-30 Thread Clive Menzies
On (30/04/03 04:18), Michel Dänzer wrote: > The KDE sound server may be misconfigured (to use a format the dmasound > driver doesn't support) or broken. > Thanks Michel - I reconfigured the xserver and XMMS will now play WAV files - progress indeed ;-) > > kscd gives "CD ROM read or access error

Procmail not picking up matches from Recipe

2003-05-03 Thread Clive Menzies
t messages are being picked up by the recipes above; they are just dropping into the inbox. I suspect that I'm missing something really obvious but having gone round in circles for the last 24 hours, I need help ;-) Many thanks Clive Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk 75 Priory Road, London N8 8LR d/l: 020 8348 0996 fax: 087 0705 2066

Re: Procmail not picking up matches from Recipe

2003-05-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On Saturday, May 3, 2003, at 04:42 pm, Chris Tillman wrote: On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 02:25:49PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: I've set up two recipes: :0 * ^Subject:.*test IN-testing/ :0 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian/ Logfile output from: tac Procmail/pmlog|less: Folder: /var/mail/

Re: Debian + Mac OS X and time problems ...

2003-05-15 Thread Clive Menzies
time I booted into OSX ;-( HTH Clive ____ Clive Menzies & Associates Limited strategies for business http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk

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