if you are interested in getting X running on that 8500, or getting a slightly more optimised kernel check out:
http://fungus.ucdavis.edu/~dylan/ hope it helps. dylan on 02.12.11 4:36 PM, Jon Olsen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi. I'm a debian newbie in a pretty big way. > > I installed potato from CD (the $9.95 price for the potato build > was easier for me to swing than the $21 for woody) on a Powermac > 8500/200 with 128 MB of RAM and 2 2GB scsi drives (1 is partitioned > for boot, root, usr, var and a small mac partition, the other is > all for home). > > I use BootX 1.2.2 to boot the system. I got everything partitioned > and installed and it loads up nicely (is that a picture of Tux > holding a *beer* during the boot sequence?! very amusing). And I > guess I installed the right packages because it installed without > complaining (that I could see). > > So there's a sort of "now what" feeling in me. I was able to use > lynx to hunt around some of the file system and I feel comfortable > with things like changing directories and so forth. I logged on as > me (instead of root) and I feel good about that. > > BUT > > I guess what I'm asking is, does anyone have suggestions vis a vis > a good starting place? I mean, I can read man files all day-- > although I could use a tip for generating additional workspace so I > can bounce between a man file and trying out the instructions--but > *which* man files should I look to first? I'm such a GUI victim I > don't know what to do-- I miss having a help window open while I > work. > > The first time I did the install I think I screwed up X because > when I entered startx after logging it, it greyed the screen and > did nothing ever again. So now I'm a little gun shy and I've > decided I'd like to navigate and use the command line. > > Also, I use my other macs and wintels for you know, the usual-- > word processing, checking mail, research, spreadsheet work, and > fun n' games. I just went with a "standard" install-- of course > maybe I should have documented by hand what packages I loaded. So > far I can't get online, don't know how to print and I don't know > what work I can do. > > For example, if this were a mac, I could go to my tcp/ip control > panel and make sure I'm seeing my firewall and I could go to a > browser to test if I'm getting beyond my firewall, etc. And I can > go see other macs on the network. If this were a wintel machine, > I could go to the start menu and open up the help files and pore > over them in a window on the left while jumping from application to > application in a window on the right. And in either case I could > be typing poetry and stories and printing or emailing them to > friends. Or retouching my photos to give myself a third eye while > holding a spear of fire. That kind of thing. > > So I'm at that point where I'm realizing the trade off of user > friendliness for *power* is backfiring a bit. Because now I > supposedly have all this power and I'm uncertain as to what to do > with it. I now have enough knowledge to be dangerous. I think. > > I hope someone can gently prod me in the right direction. I'm glad > to be here in the sense that it was easier than I thought it would > be, but now I'm scared and the wolves are after me. > > JonO > > ________________________________________________________________ > Sent via the WebMail system at mail.countrymedia.net > > > > >
