Re: G3 Beige Tower install help

2008-09-09 Thread Nicholas Helps
e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: http://www.dnaseq.co.uk/ w: http://www.ppu.mrc.ac.uk Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/08/08 11:38 PM On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:41:09AM +0100, Nicholas Helps wrote: Hello Stephen / all, Hi Nicholas: So, here

Re: G3 Beige Tower install with BootX - help

2008-09-09 Thread Nicholas Helps
Rick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/09/08 8:49 AM Hello all, I have been working with Debian for quite a few years now and using powermac G3 machines with extra network cards in them as routers and firewalls, etc. These machines were set up back in the days of Woody and have been

Re: G3 Beige Tower install help

2008-09-08 Thread Nicholas Helps
Hello Stephen / all, Here is a post I put on some time ago about this (Stephen, this is the post I mentioned). There is a preamble and then the step by step that worked for me. I have added a little bit about the space you will leave for Debian on your HD. This was not in the original post.

Re: error: eth1: switching to forced 10bt

2008-01-17 Thread Nicholas Helps
Nicholas, This happens on some of my machine also, (in particular, an iBook G4 and a Blue White G3) I recall from reading some messages at boot time text that the firewire port gets called eth0. Peter ( Rooney ) Nicholas Helps wrote: [ snip ] I am also wondering why on a standard PPC computer

Re: error: eth1: switching to forced 10bt

2008-01-14 Thread Nicholas Helps
Hello Peter, Wolfgang has given you lots of info and I am not sure I can help much. However... This is an info message about your network and it appears that the linux kernel keeps trying to reconfigure your ethernet interface (eth1) to 100 baseT (that is the bt notation) and then to 10

beige g3 etch install - working

2007-11-28 Thread Nicholas Helps
(lab) f: 44 (0)1382 388729 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: http://www.dnaseq.co.uk/ w: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/lifesciences/mrcppu/ Nicholas Helps 11/15/07 3:24 PM Hello all, I have been working with Debian for quite a few years now and using

Fwd: beige g3 etch install - working (slight edit)

2007-11-28 Thread Nicholas Helps
e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: http://www.dnaseq.co.uk/ w: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/lifesciences/mrcppu/ Nicholas Helps 11/28/07 3:14 PM Continuation bottom posted... (with slight edit due to a typo in the original post) Hello all, I have been

beige g3 etch install

2007-11-16 Thread Nicholas Helps
Hello all, I have been working with Debian for quite a few years now and using powermac G3 machines with extra network cards in them as routers and firewalls, etc. These machines were set up back in the days of Woody and have been kept uptodate with security updates, but otherwise pretty much

crash investigation

2003-06-11 Thread Nicholas Helps
Hi all, As a veritable newbie (at least in comparison) to Linux, I would like some suggestions as to how one goes about investigating system crashes. I have set up a couple of systems which generally run fine. However, today one of my debian systems stopped responding and had to be hard

Re: Installation problems on StarMax

2003-06-02 Thread Nicholas Helps
Hi there, Chris is right. They are oldworld and quik will work (at least on my 3000/180). You need to set (at least initially) openfirmware to not autoboot. You also need to set it to use the keyboard and monitor as input/output for OF (the default on mine is to use the serial port, which is

Re: ATI MACH64 - wrong colors

2003-04-21 Thread Nicholas Helps
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 02:28:20 +0200 To:debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: ATI MACH64 - wrong colors From: Marco Wilka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I am using Debian unstable on a PowerMac 4400 with an ATI MACH64 VT graphics adapter and have the following

ppp...problem

2003-04-04 Thread Nicholas Helps
Hi all, I have woody on a starmax 3000 with a GV 56K external modem. All works fine from within mac OS (dual boot OS9 and woody on same machine), but I can't get a ppp connection from debian. I used pppconfig to set up the necessary configuration files and then type pon from a shell script.

fbset on woody

2003-04-03 Thread Nicholas Helps
Hi all, Does fbset work properly with woody on a starmax 3000? I have just put debian onto this machine and after configuring the xserver during installation (800 x 600 with 16 bit colour) got horrible colours when the desktop environment started (it looked like it may 16 colours - ie not a

Re: Installing Debian(Woody) on a 7200, again

2003-03-27 Thread Nicholas Helps
To:debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: Installing Debian(Woody) on a 7200, again Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Lorenzo Thurman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:35:36 -0500 (EST) I tried the boot floppy 5 times with disks

starmax 3000 install problems

2003-03-07 Thread Nicholas Helps
Hello all, Thanks for the comments on this. What solved it was redoing the make system bootable bit again (this sorted out the boot-device setting) and then just entering Linux at the boot: prompt. I did have to go back and start the whole install process again prior to this, since the

starmax 3000 boot settings

2003-03-04 Thread Nicholas Helps
Hello all, This is no doubt old hat to all you dyed in the wool linux people, but I'm fairly new to the game and so I am having a few problems. I'll briefly tell you what I have done and where I have gotten stuck at. Downloaded woody CD images (first two only for the time being - CD#1 is