Before using ReiserFS (or any other filesystem) on a production system,
or a system where you care about the data, I would suggest waiting until
at least one or two minor kernel releases have appeared in which there
have been no fixes for the filesystem.
There were fixes to ReiserFS in both 2.4.2
You need to make sure the files on your HFS volume are laid out in EXACTLY
the same directory structure as the debian archive, from the
current/powermac folder on down. Otherwise the installer balks. Then if you
don't have the entire structure duplicated from the top level, you can use
the Browse
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
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.)
I'm buying a new DIMM for my Mac 8500, and would like to give it a
thorough test when it arrives in a couple days. It wouldn't be a bad
idea to test the memory I've got before I install the new DIMM, as it is
old and has been in heavy use for years.
I used memtest86 on a 128 MB PC133 memory
MC wrote:
Before using ReiserFS (or any other filesystem) on a production system,
or a system where you care about the data, I would suggest waiting until
You can stop right there. You should not be using 2.4 kernels on
any production system, not until at least 2.4.7. So says Alan Cox
and I
Jason E. Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michel Daenzer [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
ok, now i really screwed up ...
- Original Message -
From: Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: new installation
Andrew Sharp wrote:
Adam C Powell IV wrote:
Hmm... here's something which may
I've connected to ftp for downloading Debian disk images, I see two
files named binary-powerpc-1_NONUS and binary-powerpc-1 what kind
of differences are between these img ? I'm italian, I must download the
first ?
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:28:57AM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
I'm buying a new DIMM for my Mac 8500, and would like to give it a
thorough test when it arrives in a couple days. It wouldn't be a bad
idea to test the memory I've got before I install the new DIMM, as it is
old and has
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:48:53AM +0200, Bruno Waes wrote:
ok, now i really screwed up ...
- Original Message -
command-option-O-F to boot into OF.
i never been able to boot into OF ...
i think you have, its just sent all its output out the serial port.
so i thought, i will
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:27:33AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've connected to ftp for downloading Debian disk images, I see two
files named binary-powerpc-1_NONUS and binary-powerpc-1 what kind
of differences are between these img ? I'm italian, I must download the
first ?
you must
- Original Message -
From: Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: Debian disk image
i never found a .coff kernel either on the cdrom.
i don't think there is one on the CD, there is one in the debian
ok, but, how can i get it out of that package ? i do have debian boxes,
but
they are i386, sparc and alpha, so i ll never get the right powerpc kernel
images ... ?
and one more question, how do i make a hfs diskette ? is that the normal
filesystem diskettes are formatted with when formatting
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:29:40AM +0200, Bruno Waes wrote:
ok, but, how can i get it out of that package ? i do have debian boxes, but
they are i386, sparc and alpha, so i ll never get the right powerpc kernel
images ... ?
dpkg -x or ar -x tar -zxvpf data.tar.gz.
and one more question,
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 12:14:38PM +0200, Bruno Waes wrote:
as i cant seem to get into OF, i used the bootvariables program to
have you tried changing the input-device and output-device variables?
and still no OF? maybe OF does not support the video on your
machine.
http://voltaire.debian.org/buildlogs/gimp1.2
Looks like the last few builds failed due to bad xpm (build) deps but it will
attempt to build it again.
It is already building it, as I read the entry. Wait for the next fail
message :-)
Michael
According to yesterday's Tidbits, the utility below will advise whether your installed memory will pass muster with new firmware updates from Apple (which have apparently refused to recognise some DIMMs):
http://mactcp.org.nz/dimmfirstaid.sit>
Probably this is just some packaged, G4-centric
okay, I now got your kernel tree (as well
as the bitkeeper tree) booting, using quik.
however, when putting the PB2400 to sleep
(either by snooze or by closing the lid),
it darkens the screen, but will *not* awake
again. (and it doesn't blink at the lid shutter,
when sleeping, as it does with 2.2
Hi there,
I recently bought a second-hand PB G3 Pismo, my first Mac after many, many
PCs.
Now I want to install Debian GNU/Linux, so I sucked the 3 official ISOs,
burned them, repartitioned the drive with the tool that comes with MacOS 9. Then
I rebooted while pressing C to start of the binary-1
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 12:36:03AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:48:53AM +0200, Bruno Waes wrote:
ok, now i really screwed up ...
- Original Message -
command-option-O-F to boot into OF.
i never been able to boot into OF ...
i think you have,
euhm, sorry for using the wrong reply subject before ...
ah... ok, some OF video drivers are REALLY bogus and try and drive
the monitor at really absurd resolutions like 640x380-42 or something
rediculous like that, SOME monitors are actually able to grok it but
most don't.
on
- Original Message -
From: Peter Cordes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: new installation
shutdown, boot up while holding down `command option p r' which will
reset the nvram back to its default settings which
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:09:53PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
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
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
} I learned from HOW-TOs that yaboot (lilo-like tool for powerpc?!?)
} preferably wants a small ext2 partition for /boot like you do
} sometimes on ix86 platforms as well.
Actually, for booting, it is not a small ext2 partition. It is an
HFS
Peter Cordes said at ÒRe: new installationÓ.
[11/Apr/01Wed 22:24]
That didn't work for me, when I found myself in the same position. I found
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/faq.html helpful. They say that
cmd-opt-p-r won't solve this, but the solution they propose works: Turn off
the
Hi, Ethan,
You were 100% right, AppleTalk is a bullshit. Both printers work via
TCP/IP now. It seems problems with direct printing to Tektronix Phaser
740L from Windows coused by the oddities of Mickysoft creature.
Andrei
Hi, Ethan,
You were 100% right, AppleTalk is a bullshit. Both printers work via
TCP/IP now. It seems problems with direct printing to Tektronix Phaser
740L from Windows coused by the oddities of Mickysoft creature.
Andrei
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:39:24PM -0800 or thereabouts, Ethan Benson wrote:
debian quik will work, its at 2.0 plus debian patches to make it
work.
I said that cause last time I installed quik 2.0 (when debian asks me
to install it) it wouldn't boot Linux, so I had to revert to 1.3
(that was
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:06:08PM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
Hi there,
I recently bought a second-hand PB G3 Pismo, my first Mac after many, many
PCs.
Now I want to install Debian GNU/Linux, so I sucked the 3 official ISOs,
burned them, repartitioned the drive with the tool
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:57:05AM -0500, Vinai wrote:
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
} I learned from HOW-TOs that yaboot (lilo-like tool for powerpc?!?)
} preferably wants a small ext2 partition for /boot like you do
} sometimes on ix86 platforms as well.
Sorry this is a dumb question. Are there any binaries of Xfree86 4.0.x or do I
have to compile it myself. If there are binaries, where are they?
Thanks
Paul
--
Paul Talacko
http://www.seditiousdiaries.com
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:30:27AM -0400, Patrice LaFlamme wrote:
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:39:24PM -0800 or thereabouts, Ethan Benson wrote:
debian quik will work, its at 2.0 plus debian patches to make it
work.
I said that cause last time I installed quik 2.0 (when debian asks me
to
I just upgraded my G4/AGP from 256M to 512M ram. I had 255M swap
(which I have now increased to 1.2G of swap). I am finding that with
512M I get random hangs on the swapon -a in my rc.sysinit. This
is with either 255M or 1.2G of swap and with either all the ram
or mem=256M. This problem never
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:55:35PM +0100, Paul Talacko wrote:
Sorry this is a dumb question. Are there any binaries of Xfree86 4.0.x or do
I
have to compile it myself. If there are binaries, where are they?
in the testing and unstable branches of debian.
--
Ethan Benson
Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
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
ok, i guess we are at a next level, i got BootX working (needed version 5.5
of stuffit expander that works with my macos 7.5.3)
with the vmlinux image i got from the cd, that i placed in the bootx kernels
directory, and giving kernel options
video=atyfb:vmode:5,cmode:8
i saw for the first time
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Paul Talacko wrote:
Sorry this is a dumb question. Are there any binaries of Xfree86 4.0.x or do
I
have to compile it myself. If there are binaries, where are they?
they are in testing or unstable distribution. they are not quite stable
yet, but the testing seem to work
Paul Talacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sorry this is a dumb question. Are there any binaries of Xfree86 4.0.x or do
I
have to compile it myself. If there are binaries, where are they?
'apt-get install xserver-xfree86' under unstable (I think).
Brandon just posted the URL a few days ago,
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
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
on 4/11/01 1:30 AM, Chris Tillman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You need to make sure the files on your HFS volume are laid out in EXACTLY
the same directory structure as the debian archive, from the
current/powermac folder on down. Otherwise the installer balks. Then if you
don't have the
- Original Message -
From: David J. Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: new installation - Next step !
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:09:27PM +0200, Bruno Waes wrote:
but i still dont get it how i can boot an
hej ben,
a) kernels = 2.4.3 boot only with quik, and not
with BootX 1.2.2 (having the same configuration)
Interesting. What was the last kernel booting
with BootX ? 2.4.2 ?
I did not try all versions (I'm just two weeks
away from getting broadband, but for now all is
on dial-up :( )
Last
It is already building it, as I read the entry. Wait for the next fail
message :-)
The date looks fishy though. I wonder if we should really look there or rather
where Colin posted?
There's no gimp related in that directory. One of the compressed logs has
the following:
Automatic build
Michael Schmitz wrote:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
pdl: Depends: libterm-readkey-perl but it is not going to be installed
^^^
libterm-readkey-perl seems available now. I could try building
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
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
pdl: Depends: libterm-readkey-perl but it is not going to be installed
^^^
libterm-readkey-perl seems available now. I could try building it on
voltaire as
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:46:21PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
Michael Schmitz wrote:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
pdl: Depends: libterm-readkey-perl but it is not going to be installed
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 06:49:50PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
It is already building it, as I read the entry. Wait for the next fail
message :-)
The date looks fishy though. I wonder if we should really look there or
rather
where Colin posted?
No, the directory only keeps logs
BTW Dan: better kill that current build. Look at this:
-rw-r--r--1 buildd voltaire 484388343 Apr 11 12:40
heyu_1.31-3_20010410-2156
Thanks. I thought I put that into not-for-us last time it filled my
disk..
NP. I still need to file a bug against interchange (BTW put that
Adam C Powell IV wrote:
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
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:53:08AM -0800 or thereabouts, Ethan Benson wrote:
its possible that was before debian got quik patched, i don't recall
for sure. if the current quik in potato r2 still does not boot on
that machine that should be filed as a bug so it can be fixed.
I'll have to
Bastien Nocera wrote:
Adam C Powell IV wrote:
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
I am trying to install Debian from a hard disk partition. I cannot get the
installer to find the file it wants-rescue.bin. I navigate the path to the
disk to the folder the file is in and the only thing I see is .finder info
and .resource. No sign of the file. I used Fetch to download the whole
copy the root.bin file from the CD to somewhere on your hard disk,
and specify that to BootX as the ramfs. make sure your CD is in the
drive and you should be able to proceed from there.
a
Bruno Waes wrote:
ok, i guess we are at a next level, i got BootX working (needed version 5.5
of
Last one I successfully got to boot was
linux-2.4.0-test11 from paulus.
Well, that's fairly old. I'll see if I can figure out
what's wrong.
btw, I got somewhat confused about the
kernel image: Is it correct to always take
the image to be found in the kernel-source-root
(or would I have to
On Wednesday 11 April 2001 15:46, Ethan Benson wrote:
when you remove macos you should totally clear the partition table to
eliminate all that macos crap.
Ok, here's what I've done:
I rebooted from the binary-1 CD and got into fdisk. I deleted everything I
could delete, so basicly just the
never mind! I started the program again, read some baby-like text in the help
system that I just have to activate the device - and voila! I found the
volumes on my desktop
I am happily installing MacOS 9 now... Thanks again though!
On Wednesday 11 April 2001 22:31, Philipp von Weitershausen
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 03:37:21PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
So what if there were some company with a commercial interest in writing a
high-quality installer for Debian? Then they'd hire people to put in lots of
time to make it nice and friendly, like letting people easily reconfigure
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
} Ok, here's what I've done:
}
} I rebooted from the binary-1 CD and got into fdisk. I deleted
} everything I could delete, so basicly just the partitions I had
} created during earlier tries to install Linux. I wasn't able to
} delete the
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:59:58AM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
I just upgraded my G4/AGP from 256M to 512M ram. I had 255M swap
(which I have now increased to 1.2G of swap). I am finding that with
512M I get random hangs on the swapon -a in my rc.sysinit. This
is with either 255M or 1.2G of
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:51:47PM +0200, Bruno Waes wrote:
ok, that is nice and good, but ... i havnt installed linux yet on this
machine and i dont find a way how to do it ...
You can download bootx with a normal web browser from macos. Don't have a
URL handy, but google turned it up last
I saw a discussion about External Monitor under Pismo, but what's
about under Lombard? Is there a mirror program?
I got an answer very long time ago with booting MacOS, setting the
video mirroring mode, then booting with yaBoot. Quite complex, and
result was not so nice (ie much worse than
Um, doesn't the NONUS one contain exactly the same stuff as
binary-powerpc-1, except that it has all the good crypto stuff as
well, like sshd and so on? It's the one I always use. I would get
the NONUS one unless I was planning on installing on a machine
inside the US and then exporting that
Michael Schmitz wrote:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
pdl: Depends: libterm-readkey-perl but it is not going to be installed
^^^
libterm-readkey-perl seems available now. I could try
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:48:25PM +1000, Ross Hamilton wrote:
According to yesterday's Tidbits, the utility below will advise
whether your installed memory will pass muster with new firmware
updates from Apple (which have apparently refused to recognise some
DIMMs):
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:31:59PM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
On Wednesday 11 April 2001 15:46, Ethan Benson wrote:
when you remove macos you should totally clear the partition table to
eliminate all that macos crap.
Ok, here's what I've done:
I rebooted from the binary-1
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:06:29PM -0500, Vinai wrote:
I have done in the past (on pretty much all of my installations) is to
first partition the HD with Apple's utility (because I usually want to
have MacOS around), and leave space for Linux at the end of the drive.
Then from within the
So who's the rocket scientist who decided that if XWindows gets
installed, then XDM should be enabled?
I hadn't messed with my new debian PPC installation since I downloaded
all the packages, but when I did download them, I retrieved the complete
X11 package, then after the packages were
Michael D Crawford wrote:
Michael So who's the rocket scientist who decided that if XWindows
Michael gets installed, then XDM should be enabled?
Can't help you there...
Michael I could log in alright, but I couldn't move the mouse.
Michael XWindows is not yet doing me a whole lot of good and
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:27:47PM +, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
Mike Fedyk wrote:
Has anyone else tried memtest? It compiles on my potato ppc box, 7200 and
g3, but it runs under the OS, and only checks memory that is mlock able.
Thanks for mentioning this. I'm running it right now
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:40:56PM +, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
So who's the rocket scientist who decided that if XWindows gets
installed, then XDM should be enabled?
if you install xdm it is assumed that you wish to run it. if not then
apt-get remove xdm.
if you still feel the need to
I'd like to try to narrow down the pump problems. As I mentioned in an
earlier message, I have been completely unable to get pump (from unstable)
to work on my PowerMac 7300 using the 2.2.18 kernel. Using a static IP
address, or the dhcpcd package (from potato) I can access the network
Peter Canning wrote:
If anybody else want to chime with descriptions of configurations where
pump does or doesn't work, that information may be helpful as well.
Dunno if this is related, still: Pump works for me everywhere except in the
office. The DHCP server never even sees the DHCPDISCOVER
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
} if you want macos, then you do need to first partition with the macos
} partitioner but you must create the placeholder partition for linux at
} the BEGINNING of the disk *NOT* the end.
}
} otherwise you can't put the bootstrap partition first and i get
I'm trying to get 2.2r2 installed on a PowerBook 3400c. I wiped the
disk installed a minimal install of MacOS 8.1, leaving the rest of the
disk unpartitioned for linux. I've read many, many snippets of
information on installing, but no detailed instructions. And they all
assume you know MacOS.
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:53:19PM -0500, Vinai wrote:
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
} if you want macos, then you do need to first partition with the macos
} partitioner but you must create the placeholder partition for linux at
} the BEGINNING of the disk *NOT* the end.
}
}
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:55:44PM -0500, Joseph Red wrote:
The best I can tell, I'm supposed to drop something in Finder (???) and
set it up to boot from CD. Now I can't find the page, and I don't know
what the finder is. I was happy to be able to do the install, it only
took 2 tries :)
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 06:01:34PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
think you will be getting craploads of e-mail about this ...
i already DO.
please follow my instructions and put the bootstrap partition first if
you want to save hassle. if you know what your doing and won't bother
me with
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:04:42PM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote:
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:55:44PM -0500, Joseph Red wrote:
The best I can tell, I'm supposed to drop something in Finder (???) and
set it up to boot from CD. Now I can't find the page, and I don't know
what the finder is.
What made the installer happy for me, was to use the Browse mode to list all
the directories on my Mac hard disk. My folder structure looked like:
HD
/debian
/current
base2.2.tgz
/powermac
drivers.tgz
/images-1.44
root.bin
etc.
The installer allowed me to
I answered your other post, but the key here is not to navigate to
rescue.bin, but instead to navigate to somewhere above the powermac folder.
In your case this would be just your disk root level. Then the installer
searches all the folders at that level to find the rescue.bin within the
proper
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