http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/
says that "This build finished at Mon May 18 22:27:07 UTC 2009."
That's almost a week ago. I'd like to test a new sid installation on
one of my Macs but until this is fixed, I can't. Any idea when it
will be
On May 24, 2009, at 3:52 AM, Rafal Czlonka wrote:
Jamie Downs wrote:
Add this line to /etc/modules
snd-powermac
AFAIK (correct me if I'm wrong) snd-powermac is deprecated.
You should use snd-aoa now.
Adding snd-powermac to /etc/modules gets rid of the errors at boot
time from /etc/init.d
On May 24, 2009, at 5:33 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Adding snd-powermac to /etc/modules gets rid of the errors at boot
time from /etc/init.d/alsa-utils.
But it doesn't fix the "no sound" problem.
With snd-powermac installed, and with an external speaker plugged into
the &quo
On May 24, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Rafal Czlonka wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
Adding snd-powermac to /etc/modules gets rid of the errors at boot
time
from /etc/init.d/alsa-utils.
But it doesn't fix the "no sound" problem.
Adding snd-aoa instead of snd-powermac doesn't get rid o
On May 24, 2009, at 2:39 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/
says that "This build finished at Mon May 18 22:27:07 UTC 2009."
That's almost a week ago. I'd like to test a new sid installation
on one
On Jun 8, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
widux wrote:
Am Montag 08 Juni 2009 19:34:24 schrieb Jan Willem Stumpel:
Andrei Popescu wrote: (about getting ctl-alt-backspace back):
You need
Option"DontZap" "false"
in the ServerFlags section of your xorg.conf (check the manpage
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On Jun 15, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Sebastien G wrote:
At the moment I can't verify which package blacklists snd-powermac?
I would like to know this as well.
I don't think it's blacklisted at all...
rbtho...@greybox:~$ sudo grep -ir snd-powermac /etc
/etc/modules:snd-powermac
rbtho...@greybox:~$
On Jul 15, 2009, at 7:32 AM, MAD wrote:
I would really like to start using Linux - I have it already as a VM
on my Intel Mac Book Pro, and I think it will make my 12" PowerBook
very useful. Is there anything someone from your Debian group could
tell me to help? Thanks a lot.
Mark
Hi M
Hi Mark,
Per Debian email etiquette, my reply is at the end of this email.
Scroll down...
On Jul 15, 2009, at 22:40 , Rick Thomas wrote:
On Jul 15, 2009, at 7:32 AM, MAD wrote:
I would really like to start using Linux - I have it already as a
VM on my Intel Mac Book Pro, and I think
On Jul 17, 2009, at 11:41 AM, MAD wrote:
Hi Rick
So, I have the external WD Firewire drive. The Ubuntu I have is an
ISO file downloaded from debian. I burned that to a CD, but I never
bought a CD. So on my drive I made a new partition. It is empty
and has 50 gb space on it. How do
On Aug 20, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Dirk wrote:
Hello,
I'm running debian lenny here on a G4 processor with ATI Rage 128
graphic card. All works fine up to now except the xserver screen
resolution. It seems to be fixed to 800x600 and I can't find where /
how
to change it. My monitor supports 1280x
On Sep 8, 2009, at 7:41 AM, Rogério Brito wrote:
Now, my only fear is that of X slowly "discarding" support for
r128. :-)
I have had very little success getting X to work with the r128 card
and a 1280x1024 flat-panel monitor.
Do you have any magic you can share?
Thanks!
Rick
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On Sep 30, 2009, at 4:15 AM, Niels S. Eliasen wrote:
hi guys
Noticed that after some days(even weeks) ntpd dies for no apparent
reason..
Anyone seen this ?
and are there any known fixes ?
from daemon.log I see:
Sep 28 12:49:59 munin ntpd[19926]: synchronized to 93.163.47.122,
stratu
On Sep 30, 2009, at 5:22 PM, Niels S. Eliasen wrote:
I don't know how the system clock gets so far off from UTC -- maybe
indicative of a hardware problem? Are you, maybe, using anything
besides NTP to set your clock? Maybe one of your servers
(93.163.47.122 springs to mind) is serving bog
On Oct 24, 2009, at 10:03 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Saturday 24 October 2009, Dennis Wicks wrote:
I thought that I had previously gotten net install CD iso
for what was then the testing release of Debian.
Links to current images are available from:
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
On Oct 24, 2009, at 11:25 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Oct 24, 2009, at 10:03 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Saturday 24 October 2009, Dennis Wicks wrote:
I thought that I had previously gotten net install CD iso
for what was then the testing release of Debian.
Links to current images are
I installed a squeeze" system (using the sid d-i netinst image) and
just for fun I
decided to try setting root up as an ext4 filesystem.
All went well until the reboot into the new system.
It complained about the filesystem being corrupt and refused to boot.
I was able to boot into an ext3
Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 16:58 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
I installed a squeeze" system (using the sid d-i netinst image) and
just for fun I
decided to try setting root up as an ext4 filesystem.
All went well until the reboot into the new system.
TTBOMK y
On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:24 AM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 11:49:44PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
[snip]
I don't recall an offer from the installer to try installing grub2.
Is there an incantation I'm not aware of that makes that possible?
If you boot the debi
On Dec 8, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Geoff Levand wrote:
On 12/07/2009 02:56 PM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 16:58 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
I installed a squeeze" system (using the sid d-i netinst image) and
just for fun I
decided to try setting root up as an ext4 filesystem.
On Dec 9, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Geoff Levand wrote:
On 12/08/2009 09:58 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Dec 8, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Geoff Levand wrote:
Just FYI, Petitboot now also has ext4 support. Currently Petitboot
only supports the PS3 though. Mac G5 support is in progress.
Way Cool! Will the
Installing squeeze on a G4 PowerMac from the "sid d-i" daily
"Businesscard" CD.
All seemed nominal during the install. But after the reboot,
the login screen did not appear. I was left sitting at a text
console. In fact, it appears that gdm and nearly all of the
gnome-desktop-environment t
There is no linux-image-2.6.31-1 package in the Sid repo.
This means that when I try to install Sid from a current daily
Businesscard CD, it fails while installing the kernel.
linux-image-2.6-powerpc: Depends: linux-image-2.6.31-1-powerpc which
is a virtual package.
This may be a "known p
Debian on PowerPC seems to be in trouble...
1) The daily d-i CDImage for PowerPC hasn't been updated since Dec 12th.
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/
2) Even if it were updated, it still would not be possible to install
Debian Sid on Po
On Dec 16, 2009, at 10:38 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
Again, there is *nothing* wrong with the installer here. We welcome
reports
of issues with installations of testing, but issues with sid are
seldom
caused by problems in the installer.
If you say so, I have to agree that there is *nothing* wr
On Dec 17, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rick Thomas wrote:
I have listed several problems that exist in Sid and Squeeze, some of
which prevent successful installation (even though there is nothing
wrong with the installer).
The problems in Sid are not
On Dec 17, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
(And please do not over-inflate the severity of bug reports: a desktop
environment not being installable does not make the installation
system
unusable.)
It may not be "grave" for the installer (indeed, you've already
established at great l
I understand "normal churn" in testing and unstable, but these
problems have persisted for over a week.
Attached is the log of an attempt to do "aptitude full-upgrade" on my
Debian Squeeze PowerPC test machine.
Here's the part that first indicates there might be trouble...
The following p
On Dec 17, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rick Thomas wrote:
It may not be "grave" for the installer (indeed, you've already
established at great length that it's not an installer problem at
all)
but that doesn't make it any th
On Dec 21, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote:
Hello,
I have a PPC Quicksilver running MacOS 10.5.8 and would like to
install Linux on a partitioned Firewire drive. I looked through the
installation document and could not find a way to redirect the
installation to the drive.
rPC simply so unimportant that resources cannot be spared to
even *look* at a problem that renders the installer unusable on that
hardware?
Rick
On Dec 28, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
This bug (562575) is still present in today's netinst CD.
The businesscard installer boots
On Jan 15, 2010, at 5:00 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 16:23 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
This bug is still present in the "Thu Jan 14 16:08:46 UTC 2010"
businesscard CD downloaded from
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/i
On Jan 17, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Julian Hernandez Gomez wrote:
The only powerpc computer that I have (PS3) is the one that I'm
trying to install :(
maybe Rick had other machines previously installed and he could run
the cdebconf powerpc version.
--
Julian.
I do have such machines, and I'd
Does anybody know what's causing this?
Is there anything I can do? It's been a couple of weeks like this.
I understand "Normal Sid churn": Something like this happened on i386
a while ago and it took over a month to resolve there (I don't know
what happened, but one day it just went away.
On Jan 18, 2010, at 11:55 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xserver-xorg-core: Conflicts: xserver-xorg-input-4 which is a
virtual package.
This means at least one of the xserver-xorg-video-* packages to be
installed hasn't been rebuilt against the new
On Jan 18, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 13:17 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Jan 17, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Julian Hernandez Gomez wrote:
The only powerpc computer that I have (PS3) is the one that I'm
trying to install :(
I think someone reported that there
On Jan 19, 2010, at 4:36 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 23:44 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
My question is: How do I know which packages I'm likely to need,
so I
can remove the rest?
Something like
grep _drv /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep -v input
should show you which
On Jan 19, 2010, at 7:29 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
I'd recommend grabbing cdebconf from the d-i svn repo and building a
few
test versions at various points between 0.145 and 0.146. Just
running
cdebconf-get from the built source tree may prove informative.
Ian.
Once again, I have the hardwa
Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 23:44 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
My question is: How do I know which packages I'm likely to need, so I
can remove the rest?
Something like
grep _drv /var/log/Xorg.0.log|grep -v input
should show you which video driver your X server is
On Aug 23, 2005, at 11:28 PM, Rogério Brito wrote:
On Aug 23 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
Notice that the main problem still is that i couldn't get 2.6 miboot
to work except two mysterious times in oldenbourg.
Really? I do it all the time here with an inherited PowerMac 9500/180MP
with a G3 upgr
On Aug 27, 2005, at 10:27 AM, Simon Vallet wrote:
Hi,
I have a RAID1 setup on a BeigeG3, with one disk on /dev/hda, and the
second one on /dev/hdc. The machine does not seem to like the setup,
however, because I often get the following error :
ide-pmac lost interrupt, dma status: 8080
hdc: lo
On Aug 28, 2005, at 2:14 AM, Rogério Brito wrote:
Which would be a cheap IDE PCI card that can work with older PMac's
(more especifically a PowerMac 9500)? Any one that can boot from Open
Firmware?
I don't know your definition of cheap, but... OtherWorld Computing
sells two candidates:
Th
On Oct 27, 2005, at 7:18 AM, Peter Plessas wrote:
although i am not sure where the difference between 16bit and 24bit is
in everyday use (sounds stupid but i don't see any difference).
24-bit depth provides 8 bits per color (red, green and blue) per pixel
-- for a total of 256 x 256 x 256
On Nov 11, 2005, at 6:25 PM, Christian Müller wrote:
Thx much, somebody pointed that out before, so I've got past that
point. However, I'm having trouble now to get the ide devices
recognized - I think devfs is used. I don't see any devices below
/dev/ide ... - maybe someone who had this
On Nov 13, 2005, at 4:01 PM, Christian Müller wrote:
- oops, thx for pointing out the driver disc, 'll try it in a minute
*smashing-head*
So... did it work? If so, which set of floppys did you finally succeed
with (where did you download them from?)
Enjoy!
Rick
That's *great* news, Christian!
Sven: Can Christian's description of the process somehow be included
in the installer manual? It's an excellent first-hand description of
the process with all it's pitfalls!
Enjoy!
Rick
On Nov 16, 2005, at 12:05 AM, Christian Müller
I forget the details, but there is a "Hexadecimal" vs " decimal"
conflict between XF86Config* and the output of lspci. One gives the
card location in decimal and the other gives it in hex. So
12(hex)=18(decimal).
HTH,
Rick
On Jan 4, 2006, at 9:06 AM, David Pead wrote:
Hello,
I manage
My reply is located at the end of this post.
On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:03 PM, Dombi, George wrote:
Hi Rick,
Help me Obi-won Kenobi, Help me.
I'm hoping I can trouble you with a bunch of questions about running
linux on mac.
I have 4 old world macs (three 6500 mac (603e chip) and one 6100 mac
The Apple/Mac floppy disk drives were very different pieces of hardware
from PC floppy drives, even though they used the same physical media.
Superformat uses PC-specific hardware features. I'd be very surprised
if you could get it to work with a Mac floppy drive.
Bottom line is that the O
Hi Adrian,
Is there some reason you are using woody? Sarge has been out for
several months, and lots of folks have had excellent luck with it --
even some of us with Beige G3's. My own experience has been using
BootX and MacOS-9, so I can't help you with the "quik" bootloader,
which is what
here that are much smarter than
me;
please give me a hint/guide me
on what to do.
Thanks for help!
_adrian_
From: Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Jan 17, 2006 12:46 AM
To: adrian crisan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: beige g3 - "FIRS
On Jan 18, 2006, at 10:25 AM, Dombi, George wrote:
Also # modprobe hfs doesn't work it also errors.
Try "modprobe hfsplus"
Rick
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Are you sure your CD-R burned cleanly? Sometimes the old Mac SCSI
CD-rom drives are finicky about which brand of CD-R they will read.
Can you read the CD-R with the same drive under Mac-OS?
Just a thought...
Also, if you can't get the miboot floppies to work, you might try using
BootX and M
On Mar 17, 2006, at 9:49 PM, Kaspar Fischer wrote:
On 17.03.2006, at 19:35, Michael Schmitz wrote:
Bad RAM, perhaps? Or other hardware dying?
As to RAM, how can I test it? http://www.memtest86.com/ seems
to be for Intel architectures only.
I wish I knew.
I guess this need not be a lin
I'll check it out next chance I get. It will probably be a week or two
before I get time to try it. If that's too long, I'd guess you can
close this issue out. I've installed several PPC machines (admittedly
all more modern than the PowerMac 6500/225 in question) since then and
don't remem
The author (and upstream maintainer) of MOL died about a year or so
ago. A couple of folks offered to pick it up, but they may not have
the energy and dedication that he had.
Also, see http://maconlinux.org/news.html which claims that "Mar 21,
2004 Mac-on-Linux 0.9.70 is out!" and lists as
Maybe I'm confused. If so I'm sorry for spreading misinformation.
Rick
On Apr 13, 2006, at 2:14 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 21:00 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
The author (and upstream maintainer) of MOL died about a year or so
ago. A couple of folks offer
On Apr 13, 2006, at 6:10 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Just a clarification, Jens was only the debian maintainer of MOL, not
the
upstream author of it, which is Samuel Rydh. Unless something happened
to
Samuel Rydh too (which could explain his MIAness), but this would be a
sad
coincidence.
Thanks
On May 7, 2006, at 6:59 AM, Saladino wrote:
Hi,
After trying qemu I am now trying uml. I cannot compile it because it
searches the subarch as powerpc and the Makefile that exists is
Makefile-ppc, not Makefile-powerpc.
May I have troubles if I do SUBARCH=ppc ?
I am doing something wrong?
Thanks
I've been trying to test install the "etch" daily netinst CD on an
oldworld Mac (beige G3) and I can't get off first base because I
can't get the video to co-operate.
I'm using the BootX bootloader under MacOS-9.2.2
Before I begin describing my problems, let me state that I was able
to i
Package: debian-installer
Interestingly enough, though I first discovered this on the "powerpc"
it's not unique to the "powerpc" -- the same thing seems to be
happening for "i386".
Looking at the DebianInstaller/FAQ - Debian Wiki question 29 takes us
to:
http://wiki.debian.org/Debia
Package: debian-installer
Installing from the Debian testing beta2 netinst image on a beige G3
oldworld PowerPC Mac, using the BootX bootloader from MacOS9...
Everything went just fine until it came time to reboot. (copied by
hand from the screen, so forgive any inaccuracies!):
Begin: M
Good! It looks like whatever it was got fixed.
Thanks!
Rick
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Package: debian-installer
Severity: Important
This is a failed Installation report for etch daily 2006/06/05 on
oldworld PowerPC Mac (beige g3)
Installing from the Debian testing etch daily 2006/06/05 netinst
image on a beige G3 oldworld PowerPC Mac, using the BootX bootloader
from MacOS
Package: debian-installer
Interestingly enough, though I first discovered this on the "powerpc"
it's not unique to the "powerpc" -- the same thing seems to be
happening for "i386".
Looking at the DebianInstaller/FAQ - Debian Wiki question 29 takes us
to:
http://wiki.debian.org/Debia
Hi!
From what I can see here, you did everything right (a couple of
false starts, but that happens to all of us!) I don't know why -
F2 didn't get you a screen with a shell -- it's never failed like
that for me. But all's well that ends well, and you found a work-
around by dropping to a
Package: debian-installer
I just attempted to install the debian powerpc daily businesscard iso
from June 24 on my OldWorld beige G3 test machine, and got the same
error.
There's been some discussion of a set of patches that prevented this
but got dropped from the 2.6.15 kernel. Is anyb
I have a couple of old beige G3's. They will boot from an
appropriately setup "miboot" floppy, which is not part of the
"normal" debian distribution, due to freeness problems with miboot
(which may have been fixed recently?). Such miboot floppies are
available but I don't have a suitable
On Jun 26, 2006, at 4:05 PM, James Stallings II wrote:
Hello List!
I'm having some issues with my Mac and 3.1r2 Sarge
The install goes swimmingly well, and then during the intial reboot,
the system probes for devices, tries to load an aic driver for the
unused onboard adaptec controller, and
On Jul 13, 2006, at 12:24 AM, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
On 7/12/06, Ben Racher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
and can get bootX to boot linux, but I need a vmlinux image that will
load all the appropriate modules and such, and I can't figure out
where
Is this really a question of building
On Jul 13, 2006, at 7:15 PM, Dana Sibera wrote:
I've just tried to move from 2.4.27 to 2.6.8-3 on my powermac
running Sarge - it's a 6500/300 - I installed kernel-image-2.6.8-3-
powerpc, which placed in /boot a vmlinuz-2.6.8-3-powerpc and an
initrd.img-2.6.8-3-powerpc
copying those to th
On Jul 13, 2006, at 8:14 PM, Dana Sibera wrote:
On 14/07/2006, at 9:34:04AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
For what it's worth, here is the kernel I have running on an up-to-
date "sarge" machine (PowerMac Blue&White G3 - NewWorld, but just
barely!).
$ file /boot/vmlinux-2.
On Jul 18, 2006, at 4:31 AM, Simon Stapleton wrote:
Hrm. This might be a useful link, http://www.jonh.net/lppcfom-
serve/cache/1043.html
Thanks Simon! That's extremely helpful.
One question: Does the information there apply to 2.6 based
kernels? Or is it just 2.4 and below?
Thanks!
AMD, a generally Linux friendly company, is acquiring ATI, maker of
many, if not most, of the graphics adapters used in Apple PowerMacs.
ATI has traditionally kept their drivers closed-source. The article
in Linux Watch [1] speculates that this may change.
Here's hoping...
[1] http://www.
Go to http://www.crucial.com/ . They have a complete list of specs
for just about every machine you can name. Look up the machine the
chips came from and the machine you want to put them into and see if
they use compatible chips.
Simple, eh?
Rick
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BootX supports initrd...
Rick
On Aug 11, 2006, at 9:04 AM, Rich Johnson wrote:
Thanks,
have you tried the sarge kernels 2.6.8, i believe
that officially 2.4 support is plan to be drop in
etch. my old worlds seeming to having trouble with
latest kernels so i may have to go this route...
(ha
On Aug 11, 2006, at 11:08 AM, Michael Schmitz wrote:
BootX supports initrd...
... as long as it's named 'ramdisk' or some such, IIRC.
Michael
No... It can be named just about anything. It helps if you put it in
the "Linux Kernels" folder, but even that's not strictly necessary.
On Aug 11, 2006, at 1:03 PM, Rich Johnson wrote:
On Aug 11, 2006, at 11:08 AM, Michael Schmitz wrote:
BootX supports initrd...
... as long as it's named 'ramdisk' or some such, IIRC.
Ya' learn something new every day!
Alas, it still doesn't sort out ftp.us.debian.org's issues.
Indeed
I just tried the etch Beta3 kernel on my Beige G3 OldWorld PowerPC
Macintosh.
Same results as noted in the original bugreport by this number. It
hangs almost immediately. The picture of Tux never appears at the
top of the screen. See the original bug report for details.
Seriously,
Has
On May 27, 2005, at 11:58 AM, vinai wrote:
I also heard/read somewhere a while back that there were licensing
issues with miBoot, which prevented it being included with Debian. I
was just wondering what the source of those issues were, and if they
were any closer to being resolved ... ?
the
Reset (zap) the PRAM. Turn the power off, then turn it on with the
Command-Option-P-R keys (all of them) held down. Hold the keys
down til it bongs a couple of times, then release and it should
boot normally from floppy.
Rick
On Sunday, June 13, 2004, at 05:51 AM, matt-land.com wrote:
On
There are three (seemingly) different sets of daily ISOs at
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/20040710/
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-
i/powerpc/20040710/
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/powerpc/20040710/
Can anybody expla
On Sunday, July 11, 2004, at 09:06 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 02:02:25PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
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Hash: SHA1
On Sunday 11 July 2004 10:34, Rick Thomas wrote:
There are three (seemingly) different sets of daily ISOs at
http
Take a look at this web page:
http://www.jonh.net/lppcfom-serve/cache/1043.html
It describes kernel-boot options that set up video modes.
For example, I have a beige G3 minitower with an "ATI Mach64" video
card with a 14-inch monitor. I use
video=atyfb:vmode:13,cmode:16
which
a Twin Turbo graphics card
> hooked up to a PC 15inch ADI micro scan monitor. Any more help would be
> great. This is about the fourth time posting to this list but you are the
> first to respond. Thanks.
>
> -Eric
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Rick Thomas [mail
Mouse button emulation! There's a thought...
Yellowdog can do it (in fact does it by default). What do I have
to do to get it on Debian PowerPC (OldWorld)? 8-/
Thanks!
Rick
On Wednesday, July 28, 2004, at 02:26 PM, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
I think it's just a matter of debconf questions li
On Thursday, July 29, 2004, at 05:31 AM, Guido Guenther wrote:
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:16:10AM +0200, Sebastian Henschel wrote:
hi..
* Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-29 09:20 +0200]:
Mouse button emulation! There's a thought...
Yellowdog can do it (in fact does it
Rikard Borg wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Rick Thomas Wrote:
>
> >
> >Any one of these three bugs will render debian-installer unusable for
> >anyone with anything but a "plain vanilla" hardware or networking
> >environment who doesn't have help
On Thursday, August 5, 2004, at 04:28 PM, Derek Enz wrote:
Hello
Thanks for the info. I have not checked the log yet
but, I did see an EE error saying something like it
could not find the ATI video card.
I thought I put the correct PCI ID in but this message
still comes up.
The video card is
Install MacOS-9. Then use the BootX boot-loader. (or 8.5 or 8.6,
if 9 won't run on the S-900. I've never seen one of those, so I
don't know what will run on it and what wont. I'm told that BootX
even works with MacOS 7.5, if your machine can run it and you have
a floppy drive to install it f
On Tuesday, August 17, 2004, at 06:48 AM, Kilian Krause wrote:
Hi Clive,
ok, so here's how it goes:
use the BootX with the kernel from the installed system, supply the
initrd of the booted system and put a root=... as commandline arg.
That way i could boot the system just fine. Yet it seems t
On Thursday, August 5, 2004, at 02:19 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Rikard Borg wrote:
I'm one of those out there waiting with a 7200 box at home.
Rikard Borg
--
Hi Rikard,
Did the work-around I sent you help any? Have you got that 7200
box working yet?
Enjoy!
Rick
On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 05:00 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
happy floppy disk reading noises. However, the noises eventually
stopped and a red "X" appeared over the TuxMac. Then nothing. I
had to
manually eject the floppy from the drive.
What we need would be a way to get a log of it o
Sven Luther wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:08:23PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > Can you make a boot floppy with a 2.4 kernel that installs a 2.6
> > kernel from the net/CD/whatever?
>
> Sure, but it is not nice. I think you have to fall back to lower priorit
Sven Luther wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:08:23PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 05:00 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
> > >I have a
> > >suspsicion that the pmac floppies being modular maybe one of the
> > >causes of
> >
On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 12:08 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 05:00 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
happy floppy disk reading noises. However, the noises eventually
stopped and a red "X" appeared over the TuxMac. Then nothing. I
had to
manually
Rick_Thomas wrote:
> Well... on the beige G3, I booted into Open Firmware with the
> "ofonlyboot" floppy in the drive. The G3 comes up with console
> input/output being keyboard/screen. From another Mac running MacOS-9, I
> connected with MacKermit to the G3's modem port (which is normally
>
On Sunday, August 29, 2004, at 04:31 AM, Rick_Thomas wrote:
I tried the new 2.4 PowerMac floppys today. Now I get the Red "X" on
the 2.4 boot floppy as well.
I did an experiment...
I mounted the 2.4 boot floppy and extracted the zImage file,
uncompressed it, and compared it to the 2.4.25-pow
Sven Luther wrote:
> Rick Thomas wrote:
> > Is it possible the objcopy is corrupting it?
>
> This is indeed a possibility.
>
> I will disable this again for the 2.4 floppies, and we will see tomorrow what
> happens.
>
> That said, the 2.6 floppies are too big t
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