Re: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg

I had similar issues with hanging on boot about a month ago with powerpc and I believe that it ended up being a corrupted boot ram image. Would drop into a limited shell when it tried to switch to mounting the root file systems and visually "hang". Sounds somewhat similar, but I cant tell fro

hdparm problem

Hi, For some reason Hdparm stopped working in two of my Debian machines (one kernel 2.2.19-ide, another kernel 2.2.19pre17-idepci ). Testing (hdparm -t/T) works fine but any parameter i try to change, (e.g., hdparm -c 1 /dev/hda1) fails (eg., HDIO_SET_32BIT failed: Invalid argument). But thes

mouseman wheel on X

Hi all, i'like some help to make the mouseman wheel work on netscape (if it does!?). running potato 2.2.19pre17-ide; XF 3.3.6, enlightenment 16.2, netscape 4.77 i managed ok (Zaxis on XFconfig) to make the wheel work (eg. w/ xterm) but nothing w/ netscape. later included definitions in .Xde

quick question

Okay, I was confusing LILO and loadlin (I knew what I was talking about, but didn't use the right name). I believe I know now what to do, but I still don't know about one thing: should I toggle the "bootable" flag on for the root partition on the HDD, or leave it off, if I intend to boot into DOS

partitioning, dual booting(?)

I'm not all that new to the Linux thing, but I want to install Debian 2.1 onto a 2.1 gig hard drive and be able to keep my other OS (sadly, Win98) until I can burn all my stuff to disc and convert my other HDD (8.6GB) to ext2. In any case, I'd just like to know how I can partition it correctly ...