"Frans" == Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Frans> On Monday 22 August 2005 01:48, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
>> The patch below updates the powerpc install page to describe
>> the status as in Sarge (i.e. it reflects the installation
>> ma
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> You probably need linux-image-2.6.12-1-powerpc64 version
Sven> 2.6.12-5, which was the first one to enable :
Sven> CONFIG_THERM_PM72.
Hi Sven,
I've had no luck booting this kernel on my dual G5 PowerMac 7,3. I
updated #319
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Am 23.08.2005 um 16:47 schrieb Shyamal Prasad:
>> >I've had no luck booting this kernel on my dual G5 PowerMac
>> >7,3. I >updated #319986 for this
>> >
&g
"Ralph" == Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ralph> Hummm, shouldn't it be 7043-260 instead of 7044-260 in the
Ralph> power3 section ?
I don't know since I'm no familiar with the IBM hardware. The Sarge
install manual says "RS/6000 7044-170, 7044-260, and 7044-270" and I
stuck with t
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> Have a look at :
Sven> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323724
Hi Sven/all,
I'm trying to build the ppc64 kernel using the toolchain in sid
(gcc-3.4 is biarch now, right?) to isolate my problem . But I get this
v
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> The debian patch is already included in the debian
Sven> linux-source-2.6.12 package, so you don'ty need to re-apply
Sven> them.
Thanks Sven! I was confused by the description of linux-patch-debian-2.6.12
at http://packages.d
"Patrick" == Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Patrick> On Friday 26 August 2005 14:48, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
>> Does it need to change?
Patrick> The model 260 is most definitely a 7043-260 (aka
Patrick> 43P-260).
Hi Frans,
Based
"Daniel" == Daniel Jedecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Daniel> So i testet Kernel 2.6.12.5 from sid. Same Problem
Daniel> here. G5 tturns out after 3 hours. i tried to compile my
Daniel> of kernel from kernel.org but the linking failes.
Hi Daniel,
Could you email me your dmesg o
Hi all,
http://www.us.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac is quite out of
date. I use new Mac hardware (G5), and have little experience with
minimal installs of Debian since potato. Comments on the patch below
would be appreciated. I will send this to debian-www after any
corrections that might be
>>>>> "Rogério" == Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rogério> On Oct 22 2005, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
>> as +little as 600 to 700M for a really basic system, but you'll
Rogério> I question the 600 to 700M figures for a "
>>>>> "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 07:24:23PM -0700, Shyamal Prasad
Sven> wrote:
>> the G4) you also have the option of choosing a 2.4 kernel in
>> case your hardware is really o
> "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> I just uploaded 2.6.14-rc5 packages to experimental, which
Sven> are a test run before 2.6.14 gets released and the
Sven> corresponding packages go to unstable. Since they are NEW i
Sven> have made them available under
> "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> No way, there is no chance of a 2.4 kernel supporting more
Sven> hardware than the 2.6 kernels, the only reason to keep it at
Sven> all was for those people needing external modules which
Sven> where not rewritten for 2
> "Enrique" == Enrique Morfin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Enrique> Hi! Yesterday i tried to install debian on a new imac G5
Enrique> (20").
Enrique> [..deleted...]
Enrique> With etch beta1 netinstall iso: install64
Enrique> video=ofonly. everything wents ok, until finish
> "Sandy" == Sandy Elaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sandy> Tried both images ... still no luck. Not booting from the
Sandy> CD's, it only comes into AIX.
Sandy> [...deleted...]
Sandy> I've read about installing the kernel on the Server first,
Sandy> but they all explain
I tried booting the graphical installer (the file mini.iso dowloaded
from http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i/gtk-miniiso/alpha/powerpc/) on
a dual G5 (PowerMac7,3) today. It would just hang after trying to
start the processor (similar to what the old sarge installer kernel
did early on).
Is this a
>>>>> "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 06:54:47PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad
Sven> wrote:
>> I tried booting the graphical installer (the file mini.iso
>> dowloaded from
>> http
> "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 04:50:26PM -0800, john fisher wrote:
>>
>> new, non-dual core, dual-proc 2.0 PowerMac G5 latest testing
>> debian ppc netinstall ( 11-28)
>>
>>
>> 1) install base system, chose d
> "john" == john fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
john> Not sure if etch is the one on the netinstall CD? Anyway, I
john> got only the 64 bit version to install, but then it worked
john> with nvidia on my G5 dual-2.0 Apple box. The latest YDL
john> 4.0.91 (not free) also wor
> "john" == john fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
john> Thanks guys. Shyamal or Sven can you walk me through the
john> fix? If I don't get this working I have to return the G5 to
john> the store.
Hi John,
If it is that serious, just use the sarge installer net install
disk. Do
+1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 08:05 -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Yes, it is an Nvidia GeForce card, unfortunately that is what Apple
>>>sells with these machines. I'll swap it when I can but for now I'm
> "john" == john fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
john> Shamal, the only two netinstalls that will load are the
john> latest testing, run as expert64 and YDL's run as
john> install-g5. The older sarge stuff just crashes. Do I have
john> the wrong Sarge stuff? i.e. is there a
> "Ken" == Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ken> On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, john fisher wrote:
>> boot:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED],f200/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL
PROTECTED]/k2-sata@)/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:4,/boot/vmlinux
Ken> John, forgive me if this is a stupid question -
Ken>
> "Eduardo" == Eduardo Trápani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Eduardo> I've tried everything I could think of, "apt-get source
Eduardo> --build", "make-kpk", "debian/rules binary",
Eduardo> "dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc" but either the kernel does not
Eduardo> boot or I cannot install
> "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> nvidiafb is hosed, so he should either try offb
Sven> (video=ofonly), or the disable accel trick Attilio mentioned
Sven> earlier.
Hi Sven,
Niether trick worked on my G5. I've come down with some serious
keyboard related st
> "Wesley" == Wesley W Terpstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Wesley> For whatever reason, voltaire continues to have only 320M
Wesley> of RAM. This means it cannot build MLton. I would
Wesley> appreciate it if MLton were blacklisted by voltaire so
Wesley> that voltaire will not
Hi folks,
I've been away from my computer for a few months, but decided to give
the latest d-i netinstall daily build a spin today (March 26).
Besides the obvious known problem (default mirror) I find that a
powerpc64 install on a PowerMac7,3 (Dual 2Ghz G5) fails when trying to
install the kerne
> "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> Please file an installation report, CCed to
Sven> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sure thing: #359164 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=359164
I am presuming some one with a better understanding of the issue can
reassign it
Hi,
I just installed etch on my "new" [1] G4 Mac Mini using a recent daily
build. Installation was really smooth (and the Mac Mini may well be
the most enjoyable Linux computer I've over owned).
The odd thing was this /etc/modules file I was left with:
# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at
Hi folks,
I have a very straight forward Debian etch installation on a G4 Mac
Mini.
One issue with X (xorg) is that the monitor (a Sony flat panel, SDM
S204) never seems to go into the sleep state. The screen seems to
blank and all, but the monitor continues to run at full power.
If I issue an
>>>>> "Pancho" == Pancho Horrillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Pancho> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:20:20PM -0700, Shyamal Prasad
Pancho> wrote:
>> One issue with X (xorg) is that the monitor (a Sony flat panel,
>> SDM S204) n
>>>>> "Pancho" == Pancho Horrillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Pancho> On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 08:30:31AM -0700, Shyamal Prasad
Pancho> wrote:
Pancho> I have attached xorg.conf, config-2.6.16.5 (vanilla
Pancho> linux), and a list of in
> "Charles" == Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Charles> On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 11:22:20AM -0300, Rogério Brito
Charles> wrote :
>> P.S.: Wouln't Emacs be suitable for your needs?
Charles> Actually I am using Emacs with the nxml mode, but
Charles> completion do
> "Clive" == Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Clive> On (21/05/06 21:27), ben wrote:
>> My 5400 rpm 80gb ATA drive in my powerbook just failed the
>> tilted the laptop, eventually it got so bad that the drive
>> wouldn't read without rocking my laptop back and forth.
"Russell" == Russell McManus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Russell> Thanks for taking an interest. Much appreciated.
Russell> eth0: MACE at 00:05:02:76:a5:13, chip revision 25.64
Russell> eth1: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 48 at 0xd1465000,
Russell> 08:00:2B:C5:A1:92, IRQ 29.
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 09:54:14PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad
Sven> wrote:
>>
>> 1) PowerMac does not currently have Partition types for
>> Linux. Today we are just using an Ap
"Michael" == Michael Schmitz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Michael> s/MockOS/MacOS/g
Michael> to anything but Apple_Bootstrap, Apple_HFS,
Michael> Apple_UNIX_SVR2 or Apple_Free. If you're sure (or just
Michael> reasonably confident) Linux_LVM will be ignored by
Michae
"Christian" == Christian Luijten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Christian> Hi, I've installed Debian on my PowerMac7,3 a few days
Christian> ago (thanks again, Sven) and it seems that it is louder
Christian> than it is under OS X. A quick look inside showed that
Christian> the two
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:50:48PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad
Sven> wrote:
>> I created a partition with type Linux_LVM and name LVM_Test
>> using mac-fdisk. I put an ext3 file system on th
"vinai" == vinai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
vinai> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
>> Have you tried the debian powerpc kernels 2.6.8-8 and -9, which
>> include support for G5 thermal management ?
vinai> I was wondering where one would obtain the sources for this
"Patrick" == Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Patrick> So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was
Patrick> having a hard time getting X to work, until I found out
Patrick> that it aparently is required to run using the fbdev
Patrick> driver. Has there
"Charles" == Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Charles> Hey crew! Thinking about installing Sarge on a Dual 2Ghz
Charles> PowerMac G5, is that possible via the ppc release?
If you have an older machine (a PowerMac7,2 with the 970 G5 processor)
it should work with no problems o
"Charles" == Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Charles> Gotchya sorry. Looks like I'm 2.2. How do I tell
Charles> Debian I have 2 processors though?
After the install finishes (it will run on one CPU) you install the
kernel-image-2.6-power4-smp package. This will give y
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:34:54PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad
Sven> wrote:
>>
>> If you have a newer machine (a PowerMac7,3 with the 970FX G5
>> processor) it should work with tomo
Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: 20010114 Netinst Daily Build
uname -a: Default install fails (see below), expert mode
requires 2.6.8-power4
Date: January 15, 2005 1700 PST
Method: Boot off CD, used install-power4 kernel,
used mirror
"Bjorn" == Bjorn Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bjorn> I have a problem here. I'm running Sarge on two computers
Bjorn> in a small local network. Both computers have a 100Mbit
Bjorn> network card installed but despite this I get very poor
Bjorn> performance using the pro
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chris> I haven't the foggiest idea *what* in the trees for
Chris> kernel-patch-powerpc and kernel-patch-debianlogo (the two
Chris> patches I would like to install) qualifies as
Chris> "/path/to/kernel/patch". When I tried ma
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chris> Shyamal Prasad wrote:
>> Is there a reason you need to compile a kernel (other than that
>> you just want to do it)? The precompiled kernels are actually
>> really good.
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chris> It's not that they don't work, it's that they're
Chris> nonexistent. Here's the relevant section from the README.
Chris> "Prerequisites:
Chris> [...deleted]
We must be looking at different package versionsI
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
You really are having all the luck;-)
Chris> On boot, whether I select the linux image or the old image,
Chris> I get the following (I believe this is an OpenFirmware
Chris> message):
I suspect that this is from yaboot (see
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chris> And /boot. Notice that there's no initrd.img symlink. I
Chris> thought there was earlier, but I was obviously mistaken.
The inintrd.img symlink is a convenience, and it is created by the
kernel install scripts when you firs
"Wolfgang" == Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Wolfgang> The details: The hard disk broke on a PowerBook G4
Wolfgang> (TitaniumIV). The repair service already installed a new
Wolfgang> disk to this machine. I need access to the old disk: The
Wolfgang> repair servic
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chris> I didn't use the --initrd options (or the added-patches
Chris> options, either) to make-kpkg. I made the mistake of
Chris> assuming that the defaults would be sensible. I'm
Well, most people I've run into think that no
"Chris" == Chris Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chris> That's not quite what I meant: given that not building in
Chris> initrd means that one *must* have the right filesystems
Chris> []
Chris> Then again, I subscribe to the "first do no harm"
Chris> philosophy of
"Gabriel" == Gabriel Paubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Gabriel> Not surprising, since *power4* means that it is a 64 bit
Gabriel> kernel, i.e., for G5 aka PPC970.
The Debian power4 kernels in sarge still run in 32 bit mode AFAIK.
Cheers!
Shyamal
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"Charles" == Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Charles> Hey!! Does the ppc release of sarge work with the G5
Charles> (970) processor?
Yes!
If you have a recent machine (PowerMac7,3 with the 970FX) please use a
recent d-i build (20050117 or later).
Cheers!
Shyamal
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"Charles" == Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Charles> Thinking... how do I eject the CR/DVD drive on my
Charles> PowerMac G5 after install? Since there is no manual
Charles> button
It will eject by itself, and then automatically reinsert on
reboot. It's kinda wierd ;
"Charles" == Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Charles> Just booted the latest d-i :) netinst and it hangs on
Charles> 'opening display: yada yada' after i hit enter at the
Charles> boot: prompt... any suggestions?
Oh yes, the things I've started taking for granted after a
"Charles" == Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Charles> Hey everybody! Just installed sarge on my Dual 2Ghz G5
Charles> processor PowerMac and I am wanting to make sure that the
Charles> hardware is being used properly... I really just want to
Charles> make sure that bo
"Charles" == Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Charles> Thanks again friend! That shows my processor info, but it
Charles> is almost as if there is only one processor, how can I
Charles> see that the machine is using both?
Ahyou are probably running the default kernel
"Pedro" == Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Pedro> During the installation I'm experiencing the symptoms
Pedro> described in Bug #287030
Pedro> (http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/12/msg01085.html). I'm
Pedro> using a d-i image from Jan 15/2005.
Did you choose i
"Pedro" == Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Pedro> I installed Debian in a second hard drive. Did I miss
Pedro> something during the install?
Well, sounds like you got past the first problem which was that you
were using the RC2 installer (which does not boot).
I would guess
"Pedro" == Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Pedro> Just to recap, OS X lives in the first hard drive (SATA)
Pedro> sdb1. Debian was installed in the second hard drive (SATA)
Pedro> sdb2, with yaboot in the second partition. I think I will
Pedro> read about this openfir
"Pedro" == Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Pedro> Almost right. "tell it to boot off the second disk..." I
Pedro> imagine that's what I do when I click the Linux icon in the
Pedro> graphical boot menu, correct? I assume the little text boot
Pedro> menu that follows i
"Pedro" == Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Pedro> My suggestion for the installer would be the following:
Pedro> Close to the end of the process the installer asked me
Pedro> where to install yaboot. But the only option I got was
Pedro> /dev/sdb2.
It's because it wa
"Benjamin" == Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Benjamin> On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 17:00 -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
>>
>> The bootstrap partition *must* go before the Mac OS X partition
>> if you want yaboot to work "
"Pedro" == Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Pedro> device=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
That looks like the first drive to me. And at this point my knowledge
of powerpc linux is certainly being stretchedbut it looks like the
installer is getting the device wrong if thi
Hi,
I have a PowerMac7,3 machine (dual G5 970FX). It does not run Linux
continously just yet. So I installed anacron as I do for all such
computers. This is a stock Debian sarge installation (in particular, I
do not compile my own kernel).
Over the last few weeks I've noticed the dlocate databas
"Arnór" == Arnór Kristjánsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Arnór> The problem is that when selecting the raid tool it
Arnór> complains that there are no linux raid autodetect volumes
Arnór> found...and I cant select that from the Use as menu in the
Arnór> partitioner.
My unders
"Arnór" == Arnór Kristjánsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Arnór> On 21.2.2005, at 15:07, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
>> It is probably possible to set up your RAID partitions manually
>> by using the command line on the installers virtual
>> te
"bluesbravo" == bluesbravo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
bluesbravo> keep the data secure. is there a good install how-to
bluesbravo> for sarge that you could link me to?? or, could you
Have you tried the sarge install manual yet? The latest and greatest can
be found at
http://d-i.a
"bluesbravo" == bluesbravo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
bluesbravo> dd if=file of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync ; sync
bluesbravo> above is the instruction from the install manual; the
bluesbravo> floppy drive on my fedora is /mnt/floppy, which i used
bluesbravo> instead of /dev/
"Arnór" == Arnór Kristjánsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Arnór> Hi, I just installed Debian on the xserve I've been
Arnór> battling with for the last few days, foregoing raid support
Arnór> and such. I used "install-power4" which installs the
Arnór> package kernel-image-2.6.8-
"bluesbravo" == bluesbravo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
bluesbravo> Thank you for the helpi tried using RAWRITE on a
bluesbravo> pc, but i kept getting an error on the boot.img. the
What is the error?
bluesbravo> file is 1.40 MG, but it wont fit on a 1.44
bluesbravo> flo
> The rc2 powerpc floppy-2.4 installer is 1,474,560 bytes AFAICT.
"bluesbravo" == bluesbravo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
bluesbravo> i am sorry, but i am a little confusedhow does a
bluesbravo> file that big fit on a floppy?? am i doing something
bluesbravo> wrong?? if
"Francois" == Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Francois> downloaded initrd.gz and a kernel image (vmlinux) from
Francois> the daily build of the netboot installer for newworld
Francois> powerpc [2] (on Sven's pages I think).
Francois> [2]
Francois> http://people.debia
"Charles" == Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Charles> Hey everybody! Wanting to throw a spare RTL-8139 NIC
Charles> into my G5 PPC, it looks like I don't have 8139too in
Charles> /lib/modules/2.6.8-power4-smp/kernel/net, how can I get
Charles> it there?
The 8139too
"Charles" == Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Charles> Hey everybody! Wanting to throw a spare RTL-8139 NIC
Charles> into my G5 PPC, it looks like I don't have 8139too in
Charles> /lib/modules/2.6.8-power4-smp/kernel/net, how can I get
Charles> it there?
The 8139too
"Francois" == Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Francois> I'm now blocked with the Ethernet driver: debian
Francois> installer can not detect automatically which ethernet
Francois> card my G5 is using, so it asks me to pick a
Francois> driver. I've tried sungem, sungen_phy
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 04:15:39PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Thanks to the great job of Jeff Bailey and Matthias Klose, who
>> provided a set of gcc-3.4/glibc-2.3.5 based biarch toolchain, i
>>
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 12:33:10PM -0700, Shyamal Prasad
Sven> wrote:
>> It works. But it is missing the fan control patches from the
>> sarge debian kernel, so my fans are going full b
"Igor" == Igor Khavkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Igor> That's good to know. I think I'll hold my plans for a bit
Igor> until I hear more about sound support. Are there other
Igor> things that you've found missing on the G5 compared to the
Igor> x86 platform?
Not yet, but I
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on Dec 31:
Sven> I uploaded yesterday after the dinstall run, the next run
Sven> was a few hours ago, and the packages (both the .deb and the
Sven> .udebs used by d-i) should be in the archive now. The d-i
Sven> daily built are q
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:05:19AM -0800, Shyamal Prasad
Sven> wrote:
>> Sorry to bother you again. It seems that the last d-i powerpc
>> daily build was on Dec 31. Any idea what is stic
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 06:24:19PM -0800, shyamal wrote:
>> "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
Sven> Notice that the fixed kernel is still only in unstable, and
Sven> has not yet propagated to test
"William" == William Xuuu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
William> Hi, On my dual system, i've to press Alt while booting to
William> choose debian, or Mac OSX will boot as default. How to
William> set debian as the default boot system? thanks.
I'm new to Mac OS X and ppc Linux, but
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> Well, we don't care, since the daily built are on
Sven> people.debian.org (gluck).
I learned that too late to help, but now I know!
>> The machine is running from my previous hacked install, but I
>> really want to try o
Hi,
I was using d-i daily build for powerpc (Jan 4, 2005) to install on an
Apple Dual G5 (PowerMac7,3).
I find that the LVM menu items in the installer do not work in a
manner very similar to what is described in this bug report (though
this report is for a x86 machine).
Basically I cannot cre
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> No, lvm could be added to partman in no time, but Colin
Sven> Watson voted against this, and rightly so, since he claimed
Sven> that we should not use a quick hack, but come to a consensus
Sven> on the way of doing this wi
"Joerg" == Joerg Rossdeutscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joerg> Hi, I use an oldworld mac / woody as router:
Joerg> uname -a Linux aurora 2.4.18-powerpc #1 Fri Apr 9 13:27:56
Joerg> UTC 2004 ppc unknown
Joerg> This kernel image is from 2002 (file date in debian
Joerg> p
"Russell" == Russell McManus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Russell> I've got a 9600/MP running yellow dog linux, that I'd
Russell> like to upgrade to sarge. But I had some trouble with
Russell> the sarge install cd, which I have so far been unable to
Russell> resolve. (See Mess
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:21:35PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad
Sven> wrote:
>> Okay. I suppose this (powermac lvm for d-i) might not happen
>> by the time Sarge releases. I'd be happy t
"Russell" == Russell McManus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Russell> Thanks for taking an interest. Much appreciated.
Russell> eth0: MACE at 00:05:02:76:a5:13, chip revision 25.64
Russell> eth1: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 48 at 0xd1465000,
Russell> 08:00:2B:C5:A1:92, IRQ 29.
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 09:54:14PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad
Sven> wrote:
>>
>> 1) PowerMac does not currently have Partition types for
>> Linux. Today we are just using an Ap
"Michael" == Michael Schmitz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Michael> s/MockOS/MacOS/g
Michael> to anything but Apple_Bootstrap, Apple_HFS,
Michael> Apple_UNIX_SVR2 or Apple_Free. If you're sure (or just
Michael> reasonably confident) Linux_LVM will be ignored by
Michae
"Christian" == Christian Luijten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Christian> Hi, I've installed Debian on my PowerMac7,3 a few days
Christian> ago (thanks again, Sven) and it seems that it is louder
Christian> than it is under OS X. A quick look inside showed that
Christian> the two
"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:50:48PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad
Sven> wrote:
>> I created a partition with type Linux_LVM and name LVM_Test
>> using mac-fdisk. I put an ext3 file system on th
"vinai" == vinai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
vinai> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
>> Have you tried the debian powerpc kernels 2.6.8-8 and -9, which
>> include support for G5 thermal management ?
vinai> I was wondering where one would obtain the sources for this
"Patrick" == Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Patrick> So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was
Patrick> having a hard time getting X to work, until I found out
Patrick> that it aparently is required to run using the fbdev
Patrick> driver. Has there
"Charles" == Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Charles> Hey crew! Thinking about installing Sarge on a Dual 2Ghz
Charles> PowerMac G5, is that possible via the ppc release?
If you have an older machine (a PowerMac7,2 with the 970 G5 processor)
it should work with no problems o
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