I'm surprised it attempted the dual-head setup too ;^) This is probably
something you'll need to setup manually. If it was referring to
XFree68-FBDev, that is part of XF3, the new driver in XF4 is just fbdev.
I have no experience with xinerama, so I'm not much help there.
You can replace your ramdisk all.gz with the initrd image on my web space.
http://mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/
Stew
On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Malik Gibbons Hansen wrote:
> It's installed so far..should work. A bug in the installer froze the mouse
> during installation but it worked the second time. I created the bootstrap
> partition aswell. I was amazed that the installer recognized my dualhead
> configuration but it was dissapointing that I could not set up my Voodoo 2
> because XFree86-Fdev (or somehing like that) couldn't be found..will this
> be something I can fix later? Also, since I have dualhead, but am not
> currently using the second monitor, should I set each monitor up
> independently or use the xinerama extension?
>
> Currently I am trying to set up miBoot to stop using the ramdisk everytime
> I boot, I'll look around for what the correct syntax for setting up
> boot variables in the
> miBoot CMDL resource.
>
> Malik
>
> Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you
> with experience.
>
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Stew Benedict wrote:
>
> >
> > New ISO's are not out yet. I set them up Friday but was reminded that
> > there are security updates I did not include. The individual files on the
> > mirrors reflect the changes. Are you trying to use existing partitions?
> > You could just delete the partitions with the MacOS version of pdisk and
> > let the installer create the bootstrap anyway (it's only 1MB). Also make
> > sure you don't have any "holes" in the partition table (this is also fixed
> > now)
> >
> > Stew
> >
> > On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Malik Gibbons Hansen wrote:
> >
> > > okay, I am now using myboot successfully (sort of)...I just copied an
> > > existing 9.0 system folder and replaced the Finder and System suitcase
> > > with miboots, changed some of the resources as described on that page
> > > (all.gz from the BootX folder seems okay going into the root directory
> > > with vmlinux, just specify all.gz to be used in the STR# resource)..the
> > > linux installer boots great but of course I get to the part where it tells
> > > me there is not enough space for the Bootstrap partition to be created.
> > > This problem was mentioned earlier and you said the new images should skip
> > > tat part? does that count for all mirrors, so all I have to do is download
> > > that file again?
> > >
> > > Malik
> > >
> > > Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you
> > > with experience.
> > >
> > > On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Stew Benedict wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > /stew kicks self...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hmm, didn't even pay attetion to that. I would have to do some research
> > > > to figure it out myself. www.imaclinux.net may have some stuff on it, but
> > > > it's been down for a couple of weeks after an equipment move.
> > > >
> > > > A quick Google search on "miboot howto" yields this page that may be
> > > > useful:
> > > >
> > > > http://lists.linuxppc.org/listarcs/linuxppc-user/200003/msg01388.html
> > > >
> > > > HTH
> > > > Stew Benedict
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Malik Gibbons Hansen wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > It seems that miBoot is included with the BootX version on the first
> > > > > Mandrake iso...I do not know how to use it however as it has no
> > > > > instructions provided :P
> > > > >
> > > > > Malik
> > > > >
> > > > > Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you
> > > > > with experience.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Stew Benedict wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > No it's not =(. If you come across a packaged version, or would care to
> > > > > > package it, we'd be happy to include it though for others. I don't have an
> > > > > > OldWorld machine to try it out on.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Stew
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Malik Gibbons Hansen wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > yeah, I'm running 9.1 on an oldworld machine. I remember having some
> > > > > > > issues with LinuxPPC when using BootX.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > is miboot included with the Mandrak 8.0 beta?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Malik
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat
>you
> > > > > > > with experience.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Stew Benedict wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > As far as I know BootX development has mostly stopped. Yaboot is the
>boot
> > > > > > > > method of choice for NewWorld machines, as it does not require you to
>run
> > > > > > > > MacOS before running Linux, whih can sometimes create problems on the
> > > > > > > > Linux side. Are you running 9.1 on an OldWorld machine?
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > I briefly played with quik when I first started with PPC, with little
> > > > > > > > success, but hopefully I know a bit more about Open Firmware now ;^).
> > > > > > > > There is also miboot.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Stew Benedict
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Malik Gibbons Hansen wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Hi;
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > I was just wondering if there was any effort at all to make
>BootX
> > > > > > > > > compatible with OS 9.1? Was 9.1 really that different from 9.0? If
>not, I
> > > > > > > > > heard about something called quik,
> > > > > > > > > anyone got any experience with that?
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