Newbie Debian Questions

an be officially released for the PPC? Before the year 2000? Aw, come on... just a hint? :-) I know newbie questions can be tedious, so I beg forgiveness if my questions have been asked a million times before. However, any knowledge on the subject you could pass along would be greatly appreciated

installing Deb on Rev. A iMac?

Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to install Debian on my rev. A iMac. I know the current root1440.bin won't work on my machine (I tried using it as ramdisk.image.gz with BootX and failed) -- does anyone else have any suggestions as to how I can install Debian? Thanks! Nathan Ol

Re: installing Deb on Rev. A iMac?

I have the 10/18/99 version. dbootstrap doesn't recognize my iMac. Thanks again to everyone who has responded to my last two posts to the list -- you all have been very helpful. Nathan Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is our nature to put all knowledge into context in order to tell a story, an

iMac, dselect and .finderinfo?

ep dselect from accessing .finderinfo -- does anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Nathan Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is our nature to put all knowledge into context in order to tell a story, and to re-create the world by this means." --Edward O. Wilson, _Consilience_

iMac & XF86Config

thought it might be because I had "No video driver" checked in BootX, but when I removed that and added the arguement "video-atyfb:vmode:12,cmode:8" my monitor was disabled and I had to login/shutdown blind. If someone has a XF86Config file that would work for my iMac or any tip

Re: iMac & XF86Config

er aborting By the way, in case I should have to do this again, is there anyway to get this info out of a log file or something? I wrote out/retyped this info myself. Thanks again for your help. Nathan Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is our nature to put all knowledge into context in order

PPC PPP

(e.g., "OK", "ogin:", etc). Does anyone know what's going on here? Why wouldn't chat be able to receive information from /dev/ttyS0 if it can send info to it? Confused, Nathan Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is our nature to put all knowledge into context in ord

Re: Where is the mouse?

escribed for architecture powerpc at /var/lib/dpkg/info/console-date.config line 307". How do I report this? This post good enough? Nathan Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is our nature to put all knowledge into context in order to tell a story, and to re-create the world by this means." --Edward O. Wilson, _Consilience_

Re: linux compilation on iMac

set # CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDPIN is not set # CONFIG_SOUND_OSS is not set # # Kernel hacking # # CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ is not set # CONFIG_KGDB is not set # CONFIG_XMON is not set Nathan Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is our nature to put all knowledge into context in order to tell a story, and to re-create the world by this means." --Edward O. Wilson, _Consilience_

Re: netstd, fingerd and the r* gang

ency screen where you'll have to type "R" and "Q" again. These commands can be found in dselect by typing "?" followed by "k" to see keyboard commands. Nathan Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is our nature to put all knowledge into context in order to tell a story, and to re-create the world by this means." --Edward O. Wilson, _Consilience_

Re: slang1 (<< 1.3) weirdness

ng through the list of Debian ftp mirrors on the web site and look for one that hasn't been updated in a month or two. You should be able to find an older version of slang there that will work with The Gimp. Nathan Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is our nature to put all knowledge in

Re: Continuing Annoyances...

o figure it out on my own and beg for help on some of it from others). Hmm. There are many other things I've had to hack to get Debian set-up on my iMac, but those are the ones that I've been working on lately. To be honest, if I could just figure out #2, I'd be really, really happy at