PCI Wireless cards?

I'm looking to move an old desktop mac to another room and am thinking about making it's network card one of the wireless PCI cards available. Anyone gotten one of these cards to work under debian? Kevin

Re: BootX and the Stuffit Fiasco.

At 17:40 -0900 2/22/2001, Ethan Benson wrote: stuffit 5 was not only made to damage mindvision, but i am certain the massive changes in the file format were done because they knew thier long proprietary format was cracked. if they mean no harm to mindexpander then they would document thier filef

Re: BootX and the Stuffit Fiasco.

At 02:46 +0100 2/23/2001, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: If I get some time tomorrow, I'll repackage it as a macbinary, and a tarball containing a macbinary. All versions of stuffit (included with macos) and other free tools can decode macbinary (but not all versions of stuffit can decode the tarb

Re: Boot floppy woes

I'm installing on a C500 right now too. Since I couldn't get the boot floppies to work, I'm using the same methodology I used for my 7200: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc-0007/msg00360.html Except I'm using an old OS 7.6 as the base OS for the Mac parition instead of the 7.5.3 I menti

C500 problems

I think this is a hardware problem, but I was running LinuxPPC (1999 R5) for quite awhile on this system with no problems so i'm not sure. Trying to install Debian Potato on a C500. It's got a 4GB SCSI drive in it. I'm seeing 2 issues: 1) BootX - When I use the BootX extension I get an Unim

Re: debian-powerpc: I can't find pmud

run lynx, browse to: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/ browse to the package you want, download it. Lynx will automatically download and install the package. This is how I added the SolidPop server from unstable to my potato install. Read the dependencies section on the package page and

Re: debian-powerpc: I can't find pmud

OK, maybe not. I don't see it listed in the All Packages listing of unstable or testing (which takes forever to download by the way). At 19:38 -0600 2/26/2001, Kevin van Haaren wrote: run lynx, browse to: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/ browse to the package you want, downlo

Re: debian-powerpc: I can't find pmud

At 04:12 -0900 2/27/2001, Ethan Benson wrote: yup that search engine is still i386 only. but the file search engine now supports other/all archetectures. you just select the arch you want from the menu. so you could do a file search for /sbin/pmud or whatever and probably find the package ;-)

Building new kernel for install

I think I need to build a new kernel to use for the install on my SuperMac C500 (current one doesn't detect my SCSI card or network card -- I can use the built-in mesh to get around the scsi issue, but i've got to do an FTP install) Is it just a matter of building a new kernel and dropping it

Re: Mac partitioning probs

At 03:29 -0900 3/5/2001, Ethan Benson wrote: this is a long shot but did this disk used to have a x86 partition table on it? i am not certain that mac-fdisk zeros out the first block, and the way mac partition tables are structured its actually possible to have both a x86 partition table and a m

Re: Mac partitioning probs

At 05:02 -0900 3/5/2001, Ethan Benson wrote: you never need MacOS. if you don't mind trashing any mac partition table you have attempted to put on there this will do: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 that will remove an x86 partition table completely. it will also ruin a mac partiti

AdvanSys SCSI card

I have an SIIG scsi card (uses AdvanSys chips) i want to put in my SuperMac C500 and boot from. I compilied a new 2.2.18 kernel including the AdvanSys driver. I can boot into MacOS from the scsi card but when I boot Linux I get a kernel panic. If I move the hard drive back to the internal ME

Re: AdvanSys SCSI card

At 07:33 -0600 3/6/2001, Kevin van Haaren wrote: I have an SIIG scsi card (uses AdvanSys chips) i want to put in my SuperMac C500 and boot from. I compilied a new 2.2.18 kernel including the AdvanSys driver. I can boot into MacOS from the scsi card but when I boot Linux I get a kernel panic

Re: Airport support in 2.4.x kernel

At 00:02 -0800 3/13/2001, Alan DuBoff wrote: My only complaint so far is that if you leave the machine running, and close the lid, it gets hotter than a well digger's @$$, when I open it, it seems like you can fry and egg on the palm rest areas on each side of the trackpad...In comparison to the

Change swap after adding memory?

I'm getting ready to add 64mb to my 16mb machine. Currently it has a swap of 48mb. Should I boost up the swap or just leave it? is it better to repartition to create a larger single swap or just add a 2nd swap partition? Thanks, Kevin

Re: Change swap after adding memory?

At 17:12 -0800 3/13/2001, Mike Fedyk wrote: Depends, is that 2.2 or 2.4? If 2.4, you should be ok, but keep an eye on the swap usage. thanks for the info. currently run 2.2.18 but will probably move to the 2.4 in the future. i've got 3 drives (2 scsi, 1 ide -- very weird setup 8-) so i'll

Re: Please help a complete newbie

At 20:52 -0800 3/14/2001, Ben wrote: It's actually quite simple. Open Disk Copy and select Utilities -> Make A Floppy (cmd-F). You'll select the image file and it asks you to put in a floppy. It creates & ejects it. I've done this myself on a beige G3 so I know it works there. (OS 9.1) -Ben Y

Re: Change swap after adding memory?

At 06:52 -0500 3/15/2001, jeramy b smith wrote: I wanted a promise card for the server, but all I could find at the shops were SIIG. I googled and found that SIIG was supported by the unified driver in 2.4. I tested it in my g4 at home and it read cds fine and mounted ISOs nice; but when I put

Re: Change swap after adding memory?

At 09:10 -0600 3/15/2001, Kevin van Haaren wrote: Send a note to their tech support asking about it, they sent me their latest driver to test (33G), but I haven't had a chance to compile it in a kernel yet. Ooops the driver version is 3.3G. Anyway I got around to compiling it i

non-us.debian.org having problems?

Anyone else getting connection time-outs connecting to non-us.debian.org via dselect? IP is showing as 132.229.131.40. Kevin

Re: non-us.debian.org having problems?

At 21:31 -0500 3/15/2001, Daryl DuLong wrote: on 3/15/01 9:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else getting connection time-outs connecting to non-us.debian.org via dselect? IP is showing as 132.229.131.40. Kevin Yup, I'm getting a connection time-out as well. Any ideas? -Daryl D.

Re: non-us.debian.org having problems?

At 21:01 -0600 3/15/2001, Kevin van Haaren wrote: So I added to my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.lameter.com/debian-non-US/ testing/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.lameter.com/debian-non-US/ testing/non-US main contrib non-free and commented out the non-us settings

Re: Change swap after adding memory?

Title: Re: Change swap after adding memory? You can add the Aopen AON-325 10/100 ethernet PCI card as being supported.  Uses the Realtek RTL8139C chip.  I just compilied a kernel with the 8139too driver and it worked fine.  Only 14 bucks too. No mac os support, but hey who cares? i was gonna tr

netatalk causes kernel panic

I compiled and was running fine with a 2.2.19pre17 kernel. I decided to turn setup the computer as a dhcp server. When starting the dhcp daemon it told me i needed to recompile with CONFIG_FILTER turned on (well CONFIG_PACKET too, but that's already in this kernel). I recompilied by run make

Re: netatalk causes kernel panic

At 01:09 -0900 3/17/2001, Ethan Benson wrote: i have had this in my afpd.conf: plato -tcp -noddp -nosetpassword -nouservol -noguest which works quite nicely in standalone appletalk free setup. appletalk sucks, get rid of it. the atalkd daemon makes it suck even worse, just start it and l

Re: Airport support in 2.4.x kernel

At 01:21 -0900 3/17/2001, Ethan Benson wrote: in the past the included .config was useful for people since it was a generic config that worked on most powerpcs, this configuration will on the other hand BREAK on the majority of systems. I'd have to agree with this, I've always treated the defau

Re: netatalk causes kernel panic

At 01:09 -0900 3/17/2001, Ethan Benson wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:45:20PM -0600, Kevin van Haaren wrote: > > Now when I start netatalk it kernel panics. the first line of the panic is: > mojo kernel: Kernel panic: kernel access of bad area pc 0 lr c8111780 > address

Re: netatalk causes kernel panic

At 05:16 -0900 3/17/2001, Ethan Benson wrote: yup, i just wrote my own initscript for it and disabled the regular netatalk script. here is the relevant portion of my initscript to start afpd, based on /etc/init.d/skeleton, nothing special: start) echo -n "Starting $DESC: " s

Re: which isdn card on ppc?

At 01:37 +0100 3/19/2001, Alexander Feder wrote: weeelll.. so my question: which cards _do_ work with ppc? The faq unfortunately doesn't say a word about this question.. I've always preferred broadband (although ISDN barely qualifies for that anymore 8-) devices that work through standard ethe

Re: Quicktime movies

At 16:29 -0900 3/19/2001, Ethan Benson wrote: the better way is to demand Open and Free standards, get the authors of these movies to use an Open format which we can use and to avoid sorenson and all other proprietary formats. Ogg Vorbis is kicking ass for my music. 10 CD's converted, only 290

Intro to OpenFirmware from Apple

Got this in my Apple Developer's Connection newsletter. Apple has a presentation on Forth & OpenFirmware basics on their developer web site: http://developer.apple.com/hardware/pci/index.html#oftutorialpresentations It's only available in PDF and PowerPoint formats (PowerPoint? what the hec

Re: Intro to OpenFirmware from Apple

At 2:48 PM -0900 3/31/01, Ethan Benson wrote: i didn't check it, but i think this is an anchient doc. Apple's OF documentation has never been terribly helpful. The slides are dated 2/1/2001, but that doesn't mean it's really all that recent -- it's just the date the slides were printed. Doe

Re: Ancient date on TiBook (Was: Titanium trackpad blues)

At 2:06 PM -0800 4/5/01, Ethan Benson wrote: i am curious as to why these powerbooks don't have a small lithium battery to solely maintain the clock when the main batteries fail? Not just when the main batteries fail, i've had it reset on my iBook when I've had to reset via the little reset bu

Re: Ancient date on TiBook (Was: Titanium trackpad blues)

At 4:28 PM -0700 4/5/01, Jason E. Stewart wrote: It would be so nice if they did. Every time this happens to me, it kills postgres, because the negative dates corrupt the pg_control file. Luckily I have a spare, uncorrupted one lying around for just such an occasion, but man, the firs

Re: Ancient date on TiBook (Was: Titanium trackpad blues)

At 3:40 PM -0800 4/5/01, Ethan Benson wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 05:28:14PM -0500, Kevin van Haaren wrote: > At 2:06 PM -0800 4/5/01, Ethan Benson wrote: > >i am curious as to why these powerbooks don't have a small lithium > >battery to solely maintain the clock whe

cdparanoia package broken in unstable?

Is the cdparanoia package broken on powerpc? I tried installing the latest version via dselect but it goes into a weird dependency loop where it wants a particular version of the libcdparanoia0 package, but the one listed is newer than what it wants. I ftp'd to the package pool and there is a

Re: problems realtek 8139 ?

mine works fine in a UMax C500. I have an AOpen card using the 8139c chipset. I used the 8139too driver rather than the older realtek driver. and my kernel is newer. Driver: Apr 14 06:39:15 mojo kernel: eth0: 8139too FastEthernet driver 0.9.14-2.2 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uname -a:

Re: problems realtek 8139 ?

Waes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message ----- From: "Kevin van Haaren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruno Waes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 4:22 PM Subject: Re: problems realtek 8139 ? mine works fine in a UMax

Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:49:28PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > then run: > > nvsetenv boot-device 'scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0' > > this assumes your scsi disk is ID 0, if its the regular apple one then > it is. if you're looking to compile a list of mac's this works on add the 7200/75. This

7200 clock

Not really a debian issue, but does anyone else with a 7200 have serious clock issues? Bascially I'm losing 12 seconds every 10 minutes. Through a stupid ipchains firewall scripting error i blocked my NTP access on Friday. When I fixed it earlier today it was off by 443 seconds. Is this hard

Re: 7200 clock

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:03:13AM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:24:18AM -0500, Kevin van Haaren wrote: > > > > Not really a debian issue, but does anyone else with a 7200 have serious > > clock issues? Bascially I'm losing 12 seconds every

JFS compile?

Anyone try compiling IBM's JFS 1.0? The README says it's been run on PowerPC (be kind of a shock if it hadn't). How's it compare against Reiser? Kevin

Re: [OT] Network file sharing

At 9:31 PM +1000 7/13/01, Paul Kimber wrote: Windoze file-sharing has never been part of the MacOS. You are thinking of either TCP file sharing (which has been round for a while) or a 3rd party product. cheers, Paul NT Servers have included a Mac File Sharing add-on since version 3.5, if your

package management

I run stable on my box, but i want one or two packages from testing. What's the best way to maintain this kind of setup? Currently I use dselect to get any updates/security releases to packages. Am I correct in assuming that if I just list testing in my sources.list the next time i run dselec

SCSI - Logical unit not ready

I've got a tape drive (OnStream Echo ADR drive) connected to an AdvanSys SCSI card. The hard drive I have connected to the drive works fine. when I try to use the tape drive I get the error: Logical unit not ready, initializing command required Any ideas how to fix this? I'm running Debian u

Orange Micro SCSI support

Does debian powerpc support Orange Micro SCSI cards? My LinuxPPC 2000 doesn't so i'm expecting a no 8-) Kevin

Re: QUIK on the 7200

At 1:25 AM -0700 7/7/2000, C.M. Connelly wrote: "EB" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: EB> frankly i would suggest selling the damn thing and getting EB> a newworld box (a used imac or something) nobody is testing EB> kernels on 7200's and nobody other then Dan seems to give a

Re: Booting install system

I'm encountering the same issue on my PowerMac 7200. I tried the boot-floppy-hfs.img from 7/20 & 7/17. The 7/17 one would just spit back out. The 7/20 one gave me the computer+penguin icon for awhile and then goes to a blank screen. I made the floppies using DiskCopy 6.3.3 I also ran into

Re: Does debian PPC support this system?

I've got the desktop version of this computer (including the same cd-rw drive). I only have 128mb of memory. I had it running LinuxPPC 2000 with GNOME so I imagine Debian will run. I did not burn any cd's on it so can't comment if the cd-rw worked correctly (it did work as a cd reader). If

Re: Power Mac 7200 Series & Linux Support

I've run LinuxPPC 1999 Q3 & Q4 on a 7200 for quite a while. I ran it as a firewall with 2 network cards. Haven't tried running X on it. kevin At 8:12 AM -0700 7/24/2000, MikeF wrote: Hi, I have about 30 of these 7200 series macs. Does anyone know of the level of support Linux has for this

Debian on 7200 -- Success!

Installing Debian GNU/Linux on a PowerMac 7200 This is how I got Debian to install on my PowerMac 7200/75. This computer is pretty much the factory setup. It has 24mb memory & a 500mb hard drive. The only non-standard addition is an Ansante 10/100 ethernet card (for 2 network cards, this is

Re: Install Files Missing

Directory missing at end of link. Files are in: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/po wermac/images-1.44/ To be nice and use a mirror (don't use the ftp.us.debian.org mirror, the files are missing from there): ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org//debian/dists/potato/main/

using scp

i'm trying to use scp between my debian 2.2r1 powerpc firewall (PowerMac 7200) and my iBook running Mac OS X Public Beta. ssh works fine. I have it configured for DSA authentication, no password authentication. authorized_keys2 is setup correctly and i can get in. when i execute scp (from

Re: using scp

At 10:21 PM -0900 11/17/00, Ethan Benson wrote: ssh does not include /usr/local/bin in the PATH, the only reason you get it in a normal login is because /etc/profile is sourced on a normal login, but not for non-interactive sessions such as scp. i put the PATH statement from my .profile into .s

Re: using scp

At 10:21 PM -0900 11/17/00, Ethan Benson wrote: i would recommend installing the ssh package from woody on potato, or if the dependencies drag too much woody in, get the woody sources and compile a .deb for potato. (with deb-src pointed at woody) apt-get -b source ssh Just a quick note for an

Re: PC hardware on PPC

At 17:34 + 12/15/2000, Adrian Cox wrote: That's the only real difference. This is important for video cards, which need to run a BIOS, but shouldn't make any difference for ethernet cards. - Adrian Cox, AG Electronics What about wake on lan features? does that require bios/open firmware

downgrade sid to woody?

I messed up my machine a couple of times running unstable (huh, wonder why they call it that 8-) anyway I want to downgrade to just woody. I dug through the apt-get and dselect man pages and didn't see a way to do this. Is it enough to remove the unstable references in sources.list and run up

Woody Boot Disks (was downgrade sid to woody?)

At 8:08 AM -0500 9/3/01, Kevin van Haaren wrote: I messed up my machine a couple of times running unstable (huh, wonder why they call it that 8-) anyway I want to downgrade to just woody. I dug through the apt-get and dselect man pages and didn't see a way to do this. Is it enough to r

Re: A couple of more issues...

At 11:49 AM -0400 9/4/01, Colin Walters wrote: > - The penguin logo is still sitting at the top left corner all the time, blocking about 4 lines of screen. I can't get rid of it. I tried everything in yaboot.conf (video=ofonly, video=atyfb, video=aty128fb in various combinations). Looks like

Quik on oldworld clone

At 12:48 AM -0800 9/5/01, Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:25:47PM -0500, Kevin van Haaren wrote: the root disk in, hit enter (which works fine -- yeah!), and after a while and a bunch of messages I get: set_blocksize: b_count 1, dev fd(2,0), block 1 from c0067b74 Error

Re: Quik on oldworld clone

At 11:30 PM -0700 9/5/01, Chris Tillman wrote: > At 12:48 AM -0800 9/5/01, Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:25:47PM -0500, Kevin van Haaren wrote: Now for the next bit. Does anyone know the magic setting to get quik to boot on a SuperMac C500? According to h

penguinppc.org back up?

I just tried penguinppc.org and got a page back. Is it ok to start rsync'ing kernels and such, or should we wait a bit? Kevin

Re: HFS Plus on Linux ?

At 12:31 AM -0800 9/13/01, Ethan Benson wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 06:17:54PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: Ethan, do you have any specific information on when/how HFS was corrupted? when you write to it. What kernel versions? 2.*.* I've heard about this problem for a while, but I hav

Re: HFS Plus on Linux ?

At 5:07 AM -0800 9/13/01, Ethan Benson wrote: and its this flawed system configuration that has resulted in many unbootable systems, and why i won't support the utterly evil hack of mounting an hfs partition on /boot well I definitely don't do that. I only mount the hfs partition when i need

Re: XFS Install (was: HFS+ (MacOS) in contrast to EXT2 (Linux-i386))

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:21:37AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > Laurent de Segur wrote: > > > It's too bad that the XFS module (at least on ppc) is not part of the > > pre-compiled kernel image (ReiserFS is), > > Not really, you still need patches (at least Alan Cox's) to use ReiserFS on > big e

Re: XFS Install (was: HFS+ (MacOS) in contrast to EXT2 (Linux-i386))

At 12:14 PM +0200 9/19/01, Sven wrote: huh ? where did you looked at it ? i just found ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/Release-1.0.1/kernel_patches which has 2.4.5 only. That said, on the download page, you can read : XFS patches are also available in Debian-unstable ("Sid") which s

Re: XFS Install (was: HFS+ (MacOS) in contrast to EXT2 (Linux-i386))

At 10:23 AM +0200 9/19/01, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Woody has a patch for XFS. It's against kernel 2.4.5. There is NO kernel-source package for 2.4.5. So there appears to be no way to do a debian package XFS kernel install at this time. You can build kernel packages with kernel-package fro

Re: XFS Install (was: HFS+ (MacOS) in contrast to EXT2(Linux-i386))

At 2:07 PM +0200 9/19/01, Michel Dänzer wrote: Kevin van Haaren wrote: >Are you using one of the PPC trees as a basis? PPC isn't fully merged >into Linus' yet AFAIK. No, I wasn't sure I could apply an XFS patch against a PPC tree, or a PPC patch against an XFS patche

rsync.penguinppc.org

is rsync.penguinppc.org actually serving up files? I'm trying to rsync the benh kernel and it's timing out on me. I'm using a command line of: rsync -arvz rsync.penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-benh . Thanks, Kevin

Re: rsync.penguinppc.org

At 7:30 PM -0700 9/19/01, Tom Rini wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:02:05PM -0500, Kevin van Haaren wrote: is rsync.penguinppc.org actually serving up files? I'm trying to rsync the benh kernel and it's timing out on me. I'm using a command line of: rsync -arvz rsync

Re: rsync.penguinppc.org

At 7:30 PM -0700 9/19/01, Tom Rini wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:02:05PM -0500, Kevin van Haaren wrote: is rsync.penguinppc.org actually serving up files? I'm trying to rsync the benh kernel and it's timing out on me. I'm using a command line of: rsync -arvz rsync

Re: Anyone got sshd running on debianPPC?

On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 03:29:27AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > you also can't login as root remotly, thats a feature. This is NOT the default behavior on the C500 I'm installing. I installed Potato, then upgraded to Woody. I can log in as root and I've not (yet) changed any of the config f

Re: Anyone got sshd running on debianPPC?

At 4:14 PM -0800 9/23/01, Ethan Benson wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:25:34PM -0500, Kevin van Haaren wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 03:29:27AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > you also can't login as root remotly, thats a feature. This is NOT the default behavior on t

Re: XFS Install

At 9:28 PM +0200 9/24/01, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Jens Schmalzing writes: I will package patches for -xfs and -benh kernels. Just wanted to tell you that with 2.4.10 out, I have packaged the above-mentioned patches. I will upload to auric tomorrow, right now they can be found at deb h

kernel oops benh+xfs kernel

Is anyone running the 2.4.10-ben0 kernel with XFS patch applied? Are you getting occasional kernel oopses? I've been running it since Friday and have had an oops twice. Today's put me in monitor with the message: Vector: 700 at pc=c019dac4, lr=c019eda0 msr=89032, sp=c25ddeb0[cw5dde00] curren

Re: MASQ/Firewall on a Mac?

At 3:39 PM +0200 10/13/01, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Sat, 2001-10-13 at 06:27, Michael D. Crawford wrote: I'm thinking of setting up my Mac 8500 with Debian PowerPC to use it as a firewall and IP Masquerading server. Does this work OK, and are there any issues I should know about? Like does

2.4.15 kernel

i see the 2.4.15 final kernel is out and the 2.5 tree got started. Is this kernel considered stable on PPC? The change log indicates Paul got some PPC stuff merged in at pre8. Kevin

Re: 2.4.15 kernel

At 4:56 PM +0100 11/23/01, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >i see the 2.4.15 final kernel is out and the 2.5 tree got started. Is this kernel considered stable on PPC? The change log indicates Paul got some PPC stuff merged in at pre8. Not everything is merged yet, at least not for pmac. Ben.

Re: Woody floppy install on OldWorld Mac

At 2:31 AM -0500 12/1/01, Michael Dartt wrote: Hi, everyone. I'm trying to install Woody onto a Performa 6400/180 that runs MacOS 8.1 on an HFS-formatted disk. I'm using the disk images from ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/images-1.44/, with the

Re: Woody floppy install on OldWorld Mac

At 8:39 AM -0600 12/1/01, Kevin van Haaren wrote: At 2:31 AM -0500 12/1/01, Michael Dartt wrote: Hi, everyone. I'm trying to install Woody onto a Performa 6400/180 that runs MacOS 8.1 on an HFS-formatted disk. I'm using the disk images from ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/

boot installer from usb

not sure if anyone else has done this yet, but i thought it was pretty cool, so I'd pass it along. I've got an original iBook and finally decided to install debian on it. i've also got a usb ZiO multimedia card reader and I've successfully booted MacOS from it so I thought I'd take a stab at

Re: Upgrading Mac-side kernel for BootX

due to recommendations on the list about not using the HFS stuff built into the kernel (file corruptions issues), i use the hfsutils utilities to copy my new kernels into the system folder. If fact at one time i had a pretty neat script that would: - copy new vmlinux/System.map to /boot (with

Re: kernel questions

At 1:40 AM -0500 3/9/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I have a question about the differences between the 2.2.x kernel, and the 2.4.x kernel. No need for exacting specifics, but mostly advantages of moving up. For example, is there better international keyboard support, better handling of firewa