Greetings:
I've been attempting to get Debian-PPC installed on this machine for several
days now, without much luck.
I've searched for an install 'how-to' and settled on the "G3-Beige" how to on
the Debian Wiki. There is a
lot of conflicting advice on installing on these old world machines in
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:54:47AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:28:38PM +0200, Jos? JORGE wrote:
> > As far as I know, G3 is not oldworld.
>
> The earliest G3 systems were oldworld. In particular, the beige PowerMac G3
> desktop systems and the first few models of PowerB
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:28:38PM +0200, Jos? JORGE wrote:
> A Wednesday 3 September 2008 14:22:01, Stephen Allen escreveu:
> > I've searched for an install 'how-to' and settled on the "G3-Beige" how to
> > on the Debian Wiki. There is a lot of conflicti
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 09:54:21PM +0200, Simon Vallet wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
Hey Simon, thanks for the help.
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 12:22:01 +0000
> Stephen Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[ ...]
> > I don't have a Linux workstation available to make boot floppies; Ca
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 05:12:27PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Stephen,
>
> I used to do quite a lot of this kind of stuff.
>
> Search the debian-powerpc and debian-boot archives for my name
> ("rbthomas") and "Boot-X". I posted (about Sarge timeframe) several
> "how-to" articles on using MacO
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 12:32:43AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
Hi Risto:
> In your place, I would take the following route:
>
> In OS 9:
>
> (1) download BootX from
> http://penguinppc.org/historical/benh/BootX_1.2.2.sit, and install it,
>
> (2) download Debian kernel and in
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 12:04:09AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 2008/9/6, James Kozak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > hi
> > reading this email again makes me wonder if this step has been omitted:
> >
> > Insert the PPC install disk and navigate to the /install/powerpc folder.
> > Copy vmlinux (the
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 10:42:36AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 2008/9/7, Stephen Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[ ...]
> > In terms of the disk partioning. Is the MacOS partition supposed to be
> > overwritten and that's why the
> > installer wants to instal
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 10:42:36AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 2008/9/7, Stephen Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > The install is where I had the issue(s), of going through the steps and
> > hanging when it came to installing
> > the quik bootloader. I
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 12:30:42AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Stephen,
>
> You are so close, I can almost taste it all the way up here in New
> Jersey!
Yeah we're pretty close. LOL
> It's too late tonite, but Monday or Tuesday, unless you succeed before
> then, I'll put a spare disk in one of
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:29:21AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 2008/9/7, Stephen Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > OK kept the MacOS partition(s). There are 7 of em put there by the MacOS 9
> > disk utility (6 small ones).
> >
> In Apple's par
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 12:58:42PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I know it's considered impolite on this list to top-post, but Nicholas'
> post is long and so close to perfect that it's worth leaving
> un-disturbed. I have only one thing to add to it:
It is, and the good doctor, ran into every 'g
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:41:09AM +0100, Nicholas Helps wrote:
> Hello Stephen / all,
Hi Nicholas:
> So, here is the way I got it to work
[ ...]
Excellent instructions, thanks very much Nicholas ! I'm writing this from
my G3 Beige booted into Lenny-Debian using mutt. :) I'm a happy camper
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 07:45:21PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Congratulation on getting it working! That's great news.
Thanks Rick for all your help !
> I have a couple of things to add to Nicholas' SxS that will help
> first-timers get it "right the first time".
Good idea ! The only one th
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:17:55AM +0100, Nicholas Helps wrote:
> Hello Stephen (and everyone else),
Howdy Nicholas,
> Being polite this time ;-)
>
> Glad the step by step worked. Please make sure you acknowledge Rick as well,
> without this help, I would never have gotten my install working
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 07:34:43PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 2008/9/8, Stephen Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[ ...]
> The other IDE socket has probably the CD drive (hdc)? Maybe the spare
> drive has been as a slave in its earlier life? In Linux, hda/b are
> master/slave
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 05:16:35PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> That's good news. I have tried to get xorg and gnome running on my test
> machine, but it seems that the video chip it has isn't very well
> supported. I need to open a bug report on the subject.
I have 2 video cards in it. Back
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