Debain and kernel adjustments (beginner)

I am attempting to run Debian (either woody or sarge) on an old Umax S900 (mac clone equivalent to about a 9600). My problem lies in the graphics card. It is an old ix Micro TwinTurbo 2mb card that Linux kernels don't support or so I've been told. I was able to find a few websites that mentioned

RE: Can't get Kernel and intrid to start sarge installer

Hi rick, thanks for the response however I attempted a few different kernel-boot options as I'm not entirely sure what my monitor rate or bit depth is, however none worked. I'm running a Twin Turbo graphics card hooked up to a PC 15inch ADI micro scan monitor. Any more help would be great.

how do I get a Sid package on a Woody system?

I've been wanting to get AMSN messenger (http://amsn.sourceforge.net/) running on my woody system however the .deb package is only available throught the Sid package list. I don't know how to program or compile from source code and when I attempt to install the package manually I get stuck in depe

debootstrap exited abnormally (base installation error)

I'm attempting to install Woody on an Umax S900 (oldworld mac clone) and during the base system install step of the install no matter what I do, I end up with the error at the end: debootstrap exited abnormally with only one option below that - continue. However the word 'continue' is poor grama

Pre-Beginner's post (convince me)

Hi, I'm completely new to linux and I'm trying to bring some sense of clarity to it all. I want to run a dual boot system with OS9 and Linux on my Umax S900 (oldworld mac clone). The main purpose of my work on the computer is audio applications however I may/will want to setup a network and/or co

Pre-install partitions & dual boot

Hi there, I just recently had my Mac OS9.1 crash on me and my 2gig hard drive is no longer bootable. After some research I've been told to format the drive and reinstall. Seeing however that I've already gotten my friend to mail me a new 9.1gig hard drive ready to boot OS9.1 and the fact that I'v

Installing Woody

I've attempted to install Woody about three times now on my Umax S900 (oldworld mac). I can't figure out how to configure the install for the 2.4 kernel rather than the 2.2 and when it does run the 2.2 I can't get beyond the command line state (I'd like to run GNOME). I'm new to the whole Linux t

startx problems on Umax S900

On about the last seven installs of woody that I've done on my Umax S900 I have been unsuccsessfull in starting the x-window-system. The startx command consistently returns the error (the following is just the last few lines of text given to me, not the whole log file): (II) Module xaa: vendor="Th