Michael Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The 'rescue floppy' doesn't even work as this on a whole other bunch of
architectures I bet. Can you boot from this floppy on sparc?
Sure.
Only on architecture, PowerPC, is in bad enough shape to require one
image for actual booting (when possible at
Andrew Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What I was thinking was that a more sophisticated method for
generating the docs could be utilized. Something that would pull
arch specific sections from the right places and insert them into
the doc just before placing that doc at its intended
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:40:07AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Michael Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The 'rescue floppy' doesn't even work as this on a whole other bunch of
architectures I bet. Can you boot from this floppy on sparc?
Sure.
Only on architecture, PowerPC, is in bad
You should know that I tried very hard to follow the PowerPC
instructions as written for my Mac 8500, and I ran completely into a
stone wall.
If I hadn't done a lot of google searching, I never would have installed
Debian on my PowerPC. My very first debian installation of any sort was
Saturday
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 11:16:51AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
Ethan Benson wrote:
try ofpath /dev/sda first to see if it supports that machine, ofpath
supports most oldworlds but i may have missed a few, people need to
send me more device-trees.
It doesn't work on my Motorola
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Michel Lanners wrote:
On 6 Apr, this message from Peter Cordes echoed through cyberspace:
BTW, I've
found that compiling kernels isn't nearly as fast as I hoped it would be
with 4 PPC604 CPUs at 150MHz. I think the problem is that they share the L2
cache, and it
I have a PowerMac 9500 with an XLR8 400 MHz G3 and i want to replace an
ix3D display card with something that at least LINUX supports (preferrably
also Open Firmware). Which ones are known to work? Do they have to have
a Mac ROMs or do someone with PC BIOS chips work as well? For example,
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:42:54AM -0400, MC wrote:
[install experience and sucky powerpc docs snipped]
So there's a few more criticisms:
- after you start up in your initial install and you're trying to
initialize apt for the first time, you should be given more diagnostic
information as
Hello,
Is there a reason gimp1.2 isn't built for powerpc? I checked the
buildd logs I found at http://voltaire.debian.org/~buildd/logs/, and
gimp1.2 wasn't listed. I've successfully built it from source on my
sid system.
Thank you to Ethan for helping me with Yaboot, now the system boot
fine, there was a trouble with the older version of Yaboot I've
installed on my G3, but now I've other troubles, while booting the
httpd daemon crash, it worked fine when booted from older Yaboot which
loaded the kernel image from
it is highly unlikly that a yaboot upgrade could alter system
stability. also moving the kernel off the Horrible File System
partition cannot have any effect on stability either.
since you mention rpm i assume this is a LinuxPPC box, if so i suggest
you install debian since LinuxPPC is just
My very subjective impression is that compiling (kernels, or anything
else, for that matter) _is_ slower on PPC than on i386. No hard figures
here; but that has been my impression all the time during the 4 years
I'm following PPC Linux.
Reasons might be many and various: memory bandwidth being
I would like to install Debian ppc but there are many files and I don't
know well what I must download and install, there isn't a cdrom image ?
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:40:07AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Michael Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The 'rescue floppy' doesn't even work as this on a whole other bunch of
architectures I bet. Can you boot from this floppy on sparc?
Sure.
Only on architecture, PowerPC, is in bad
I have a German keyboard, so I am using a German keymap
(mac-de2-ext.kmap.gz). With this keymap I am unable to type \, |,
and ~, which makes the shell a bit inconvenient to use.
On MacOS, | is at option-7, \ is option-shift-7, and ~ is option-n
(deadkey), or option-ctrl-n as a non-dead key.
I
Stefan Haller wrote:
I have a German keyboard, so I am using a German keymap
(mac-de2-ext.kmap.gz). With this keymap I am unable to type \, |,
and ~, which makes the shell a bit inconvenient to use.
On MacOS, | is at option-7, \ is option-shift-7, and ~ is option-n
(deadkey), or
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:37:24PM +0200, Olaf Grewe wrote:
I would like to install Debian ppc but there are many files and I don't
know well what I must download and install, there isn't a cdrom image ?
There are several around, so you might want to try one of these:
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:01:33PM +0300, Andrei Verovski wrote:
Hi,
I have two AppleTalk printers (LaserWriter 12/640 and Tektronix Phaser
the LaserWriter 12/640 is a TCP/IP printer with a BSD lpd running on
it. you don't need to fsck with appletalk garbage to print to it.
[snip
Sven LUTHER [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But i was told a long time ago this was not ok, because you have to make sure
that the kernel used is the same as the modules used.
Is this no mor ethe case ?
No, it's the case, but you can grab the right kernel for your flavor
and subarchitecture easily
the LaserWriter 12/640 is a TCP/IP printer with a BSD lpd running on
it. you don't need to fsck with appletalk garbage to print to it.
Thanks, Ethan,
Somehow I am need to manage it through Netatalk, because the second one,
Tektronix 740L, has awkward TCP/IP support, at least, it does not
Hi
I am successfully running debian on a PC and would like
to install it on my ibook indigo firewire as well.
I downloaded and burned the iso images of potato 2.2r2
but when I try to boot from the cd, I stops without any
output except some vertical blue lines on the screen.
What can I do to
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:01:33PM +0300, Andrei Verovski wrote:
Hi,
I have two AppleTalk printers (LaserWriter 12/640 and Tektronix Phaser
the LaserWriter 12/640 is a TCP/IP printer with a BSD lpd running on
it. you don't need to fsck
Greetings...
David J. Roundy wrote:
I'm not sure if this is powerpc-specific, or not, but I have a somewhat
annoying issue where X will die if I stop using it for a while (e.g. leave
the room or work on a virtual terminal). It does this whether I am just
sitting in kdm or if I'm logged in
Andrew Sharp wrote:
Adam C Powell IV wrote:
Hmm... here's something which may work. Is there a .coff kernel image on
the
CD, e.g. vmlinux-2.2.18pre21.coff? If so, try copying that onto an
HFS-formatted blank floppy. Then when you boot, hold down something like
command-option-O-F
hej,
Can you try out my current rsync tree ?
(rsync from penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-benh)
It may or may not help, but it's a starting
point to figure out what's wrong.
well, it keeps going from bad to worse. I've tried
to get your tree running, then I tried customized
variants of bitkeeper
Bastien Nocera wrote:
Adam C Powell IV wrote:
These are the Ximian .debs? If so, they're binary incompatible with
official
GNOME .debs, and Ximian is no longer supporting sid: unstable is changing
a bit
too fast underneath us. So I guess those .debs are for stable?
Nope, for
Ethan Benson wrote:
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:42:54AM -0400, MC wrote:
[install experience and sucky powerpc docs snipped]
So there's a few more criticisms:
- after you start up in your initial install and you're trying to
initialize apt for the first time, you should be given more
You aren't. I attach all files I got in my /etc/X11/xkb/ dir which I use
Thanks, this will probably help me when I get around to installing X.
For now I'm interested in the console keymap.
--
Stefan Haller
Berlin, Germany
http://www.snafu.de/~stk/
so, to use BootX i still need macos, now this system comes with only one hd,
and it has macos on it ...
does there exist something like fips, to shrink the macos partition ? so i
can make space for linux, or do i have to add a new hd ? and can i just add
a pc ide hd ?
The previous
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:56:26AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
Ethan Benson wrote:
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:42:54AM -0400, MC wrote:
[install experience and sucky powerpc docs snipped]
So there's a few more criticisms:
- after you start up in your initial install and you're
Peter Cordes wrote:
What version of gcc should I use to compile the kernel (from the BK tree).
Are there any known problems with 2.95.3? I'm compiling for an SMP machine.
(so reordering locking-related things is a bigger problem than on UP.)
AFAIK that should only yet be a problem with
I can't seem to get the right files available to the installer. I am using
BootX and have downloaded files to a Mac HFS partition which I mount but the
installer doesn't like what it sees I guess. I am a complete newbie. Anyone
help me out with this?
Michael Edwards
Stefan Haller wrote:
You aren't. I attach all files I got in my /etc/X11/xkb/ dir which I use
Thanks, this will probably help me when I get around to installing X.
For now I'm interested in the console keymap.
Oh, this one I haven't got. I'm not using the console very often, and I
have
Adam C Powell IV wrote:
Andrew Sharp wrote:
OF works quite well on my StarMax. That's why I'm thinking it will work on
Bruno's
4400, since the StarMax is a 4400 clone.
Not a wise inference, since Apple is involved. I'm glad OF works on
your StarMax. I guess that I can now admit that I
Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
AFAIK that should only yet be a problem with gcc-3.0 (which in turn is needed
for ReiserFS yet).
Speaking as one who would really like to have a journaling FS on my
80Gb FW drive, is ResierFS ready for use on PPC? What about XFS??
Thanks!
jas.
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 04:53:25PM +0300, Andrei Verovski wrote:
the LaserWriter 12/640 is a TCP/IP printer with a BSD lpd running on
it. you don't need to fsck with appletalk garbage to print to it.
Thanks, Ethan,
Somehow I am need to manage it through Netatalk, because the second one,
Jason E. Stewart wrote:
AFAIK that should only yet be a problem with gcc-3.0 (which in turn is
needed for ReiserFS yet).
Speaking as one who would really like to have a journaling FS on my
80Gb FW drive, is ResierFS ready for use on PPC?
'Ready' may be a bit exaggerated, but I've been
hej ben,
Can you try out my current rsync tree ?
(rsync from penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-benh)
It may or may not help, but it's a starting
point to figure out what's wrong.
okay, I now got your kernel tree (as well
as the bitkeeper tree) booting, using quik.
however, when putting the PB2400
Andrew Sharp wrote:
Adam C Powell IV wrote:
OF works quite well on my StarMax. That's why I'm thinking it will work on
Bruno's
4400, since the StarMax is a 4400 clone.
Not a wise inference, since Apple is involved.
I stand corrected. :-) Then again, with the same Tanzania mobo and
Actually, for people who don't want to waste (or use constructively,
depending on your point of view) time screwing with
not-ready-for-prime-time stuff like {woody,sid} and/or 2.4.x
kernels, ReiserFS for 2.2 kernels works on powerpc but you have to
get the endian-challenged-processors' patch for
Hi, I'm having a problem getting X 4 to run in the correct modes (or at
all in some instances) and have had trouble finding some useful
information to get me past this. Is someone able to point me towards
soem useful doco or perhaps has an XF86Config-4 that I could peruse?
--
Cheers,
Colin Walters wrote:
Is there a reason gimp1.2 isn't built for powerpc? I checked the
buildd logs I found at http://voltaire.debian.org/~buildd/logs/, and
gimp1.2 wasn't listed. I've successfully built it from source on my
sid system.
http://voltaire.debian.org/buildlogs/gimp1.2
Looks
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 04:41:28PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
i don't think its possible to make a generic rescue image that will
boot all the various powerpcs, but isn't there several different
versions of it anyway for the different powerpc sub-archs?
Seems like a moot point since we
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 04:21:03PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
It is however not always the optimal solution to avoid AppleTalk IMHO: If
you have non-geek Mac users on the network it is not very userfriendly to
ask them to use lpd. Mac users expect printers to show up in the chooser,
and
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 04:02:01PM -0400, Patrice LaFlamme wrote:
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 04:12:46PM +0200 or thereabouts, Philipp Kaeser wrote:
I'll now try to get quik up and running to see
whether it's just a PB2400 problem. However, I
wonder if anyone else has a kernel = 2.4.3
running
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:13:15AM -0700, Tovar wrote:
so, to use BootX i still need macos, now this system comes with only one
hd,
and it has macos on it ...
does there exist something like fips, to shrink the macos partition ? so i
can make space for linux, or do i have to add
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:56:26AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
I think I agree with you Ethan, but at the same time, MC does have a point
that
this makes for a very unfriendly install experience. This is a generic potato
boot-floppies issue across all arches. Will the new woody
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:58:59PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
wish i had the requisite skills to try and make improvments to them
but i don't.
Hmm, what exactly would you need to know?
2.2.19 root disk prob would need kernel hacking skill
Docs would need a good tech writer. I may be able
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 07:14:08PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:58:59PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
wish i had the requisite skills to try and make improvments to them
but i don't.
Hmm, what exactly would you need to know?
C programming skills and the ability to
Ethan Benson wrote:
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:56:26AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
I think I agree with you Ethan, but at the same time, MC does have a point
that
this makes for a very unfriendly install experience. This is a generic
potato
boot-floppies issue across all
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 07:26:55PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote:
Me neither, but what the user was insinuating is that he doesn't
necessarily know the *right* answers, and wants to have a system
where he can try many different combinations without having to start
the install from the beginning
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