Thank you all !
adding the --partition 11 to mkofboot made it.
In case someone has the same problem, the whole command was :
mkofboot -b /dev/hda9 -m /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot --root /dev/hda11
--partition 11
for a Apple_Boostrap partition on hda9 and / on hda11 (hda10 is swap).
I had no time to
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
is debian-installer going to do this the same way? copying the kernel
from the `rescue' disk if thats what it still ends be up being called.
I doubt it -- they use .udebs for this kinda stuff I bet.
--
.Adam Di [EMAIL
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:12:41AM +0200, franck routier wrote:
I had no time to try giving hd:11,/boot/vmlinux-2.2.18pre21 to yaboot
prompt a try, as suggested by Wilhelm Fitzpatrick, because Ethan's solution
worked (I would have been surprised it didn't :-)
unfortunatly booting custom
I have a Pismo that was running more-or-less vanilla testing, and I added
Bastien's Ximian packages to my apt sources.
Now it boots, gets as far as the Ximian login dialogue, and then the
keyboard stops working. I can't log in, and because the keyboard is not
working, I can't kill the X server or
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 10:08:27AM +0200, Lorenzo De Vito wrote:
I'm happy to say you that I've installed DebianPPC and now I'm a new Debian
user !!
The system boot well from Yaboot, I've changed path in the bootstrap
partition, the previously was /boot/vmlinux, to /vmlinux and Debian boot
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Andrew Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The answer is another question, how wide spread do we want the use
of Debian to be? In FreeBSD, it works quite well, and there is no
reason it can't work this way on Debian: you enter your network
settings, it goes off and
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:11:54PM +1200, Stephen Judd wrote:
I have a Pismo that was running more-or-less vanilla testing, and I added
Bastien's Ximian packages to my apt sources.
Now it boots, gets as far as the Ximian login dialogue, and then the
keyboard stops working. I can't log in,
Who's going to compile readline2 2.1-21 for alpha and powerpc?
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/source/libs/readline2_2.1-21.dsc
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/source/libs/readline2_2.1.orig.tar.gz
Who's going to upload cfs 1.3.3-8 for powerpc and sparc to pandora?
ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/potato/non-US/main/source/cfs_1.3.3-8.dsc
ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/potato/non-US/main/source/cfs_1.3.3.orig.tar.gz
Hi everybody,
First of all: thanks for your support. I'm writing this email out of my
beloved kmail under xfree4 - i finally got it runninng at around 3 a.m.
I followed somebody's advice (i don't remember who it was) and browsed the
mailing list archive. I was almost ready to give up when I
there's a dependency-problem with one of the
fonts package (I think it's xfonts-base); which
does not get installed if you choose the wrong
fontserver (xftts IIRC).
so, this problem here with the fonts should be easy
to solve by installing the xfonts-base package.
yeah, that was the
The real question of course is: how easy should the install process be? The
Debian answer seems to be something like As easy as our volunteers have time
for. Since all of us user/maintainers already have everything installed,
and can use the working-if-not-friendly install process perfectly
So who's the rocket scientist who decided that if XWindows gets
installed, then XDM should be enabled?
Must be the same sort of person as one who doesn't remember you can always
switch to a text console with control-alt-F1. xdm makes perfect sense
for a workstation install. Am I missing
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 01:40:13PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
At the moment, I know that powerpc does not build due to a kernel
issue. I don't know anything about the other archs.
Arch's in question: alpha, arm, m68k, sparc.
m68k: Christian recently relocated to the US, and no one
DPMS stands for something like 'Display Power Management System'. With this
option, the server tries to put the monitor to standby, suspend and
eventually
power it down (which can damage monitors that don't support DPMS). I don't
know if it makes any difference on a Pismo, anyway. :)
Well, if X
on the subject of using the Fn key to access the fucntion keys, I notied one
day when I first got my pismo that there was an opion in macos (I think I
read it in the little book that came with the pismo) that there is a way to
tell macos to reverse the function keys, so the F1-F12 work by default
Then I tried to compile kernel 2.4. I rsync'd with benh's tree at
penguinppc.org like Jason told me to do. I also took his config, but made a
few changes to it, i.e. filesystems. So they shoudn't really matter.
Now, the
kernel compiled fine, but when it came to linking everything together, it
Hi,
I am trying to install gnu-linux-debian to an powermac 9500/180mp. The boot
floppy work well, but when it ask for the root floppy, the keyboard does not
work.
Thank for help
ps: bootfloppy version 2.2.19-2000-12-03
On Friday 13 April 2001 16:14, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
Well, if you don't tell me which the errors are, I'll have difficulties
fixing them :)
ok. Sorry. The linking fails with the following error message:
arch/ppc/kernel/kernel.o: In function `power_save':
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 03:58:41PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
on the subject of using the Fn key to access the fucntion keys, I notied one
day when I first got my pismo that there was an opion in macos (I think I
read it in the little book that came with the pismo) that there is a way
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 06:46:56PM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
2. there's sound but just some disgusting sound instead of music. any hints?
What are you playing the sound with? Perhaps the samples have the wrong
byte order. 16 bit samples byte swapped would sound very bad.
David
On Friday 13 April 2001 16:54, David Brown wrote:
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 06:46:56PM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
2. there's sound but just some disgusting sound instead of music. any
hints?
What are you playing the sound with? Perhaps the samples have the wrong
byte order. 16
On Friday 13 April 2001 16:14, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
Well, if you don't tell me which the errors are, I'll have difficulties
fixing them :)
ok. Sorry. The linking fails with the following error message:
arch/ppc/kernel/kernel.o: In function `power_save':
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 12:00:02AM +0200 or thereabouts, Michel Dänzer wrote:
Yes it is, I just checked.
Feel free to file a bug against tasksel, but please look at it again (hint:
you don't need to reinstall for that :).
So how do I submit bug reports (besides whining here ;) ) ?
I
Kin Chung [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Nope, plese disassemble the control panel that permits you to set
this,
Seriously, though... are you actually allowed to disassemble
the Apple code? The license agreement suggests that one is not
licensed to disassemble any of the Macintosh OS code (or
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Kin Chung wrote:
Michael Schmitz wrote:
Nope, plese disassemble the control panel that permits you to set
this,
Seriously, though... are you actually allowed to disassemble
the Apple code? The license agreement suggests that one is not
licensed to disassemble any of
On Friday 13 April 2001 15:58, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
There's a special ADB command to send to the keyboard to reverse them.
Now, just tell me what ADB is...
I beleive one day, I'll have to write a /proc entry for setting that
along with the trackpad tapping features ;)
that'd be
Philipp von Weitershausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Friday 13 April 2001 15:58, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
There's a special ADB command to send to the keyboard to reverse them.
Now, just tell me what ADB is...
Apple Desktop Bus. Apple used to use it for all input devices before
they
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:00:34PM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
that'd be great. The tapping 'feature' (I'd call it a p.i.t.a.) really annoys
me. Isn't there a way to switch it off now?
/sbin/trackpad notap
It's in the powerpc-utils package. I put in a startup script and also in
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:26:00AM -0600, Bil Repenning wrote:
Hello;
I am new to the list so let me know if I should not be posting this way.
you posted to debian-ports, which is really an alias for 6 or more
lists -- debian-alpha, debian-m68k, debian-sparc, debian-arm,
debian-mips etc etc.
Another snooze problem I had was this: (TiBook, btw)
eth1: Error -19 transmitting packet
hermes @ 0xd4a9d000: Card removed while waiting for command completion.
I got hundreds of those in /var/log/syslog, and my system slowed to a
crawl. I expect it's just something about pcmcia that I don't
Tested myself...
benh wrote:
Reasons might be many and various: memory bandwidth being _much_
lower on all but the latest Apple machines, compared to equivalent
i386 boxes, being one of them. RISC vs. CISC code generation might be
another, also that is pure speculation on my part. Different
Stephen Judd wrote:
Now it boots, gets as far as the Ximian login dialogue, and then the
keyboard stops working. I can't log in, and because the keyboard is not
working, I can't kill the X server or move to the console.
I used to have the same problem. Looking at the server log I found out
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
DPMS stands for something like 'Display Power Management System'. With this
option, the server tries to put the monitor to standby, suspend and
eventually power it down (which can damage monitors that don't support
DPMS). I don't know if it makes any
Patrice LaFlamme wrote:
Yes it is, I just checked.
Feel free to file a bug against tasksel, but please look at it again
(hint: you don't need to reinstall for that :).
So how do I submit bug reports (besides whining here ;) ) ?
reportbug package (requires sane mail setup)
or read
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 03:29:02PM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
Then I just made one more modification to my 2.4 kernel because wvdial
woudn't find the internal modem. I figured that I hadn't compiled serial
support, so I added it, recompiled, rebooted - still no modem.
It works
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 01:11:47PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
Michael Schmitz; are you saying that NO PowerPC's will build on Debian? I
i hope he did not say such a thing, i am writing this on a Blue G3
running Debian potato.
The quote was:
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 01:40:13PM +0200,
I am having some trouble with X Windows and my video card. Its a standard
ATI card that came with my 9500. Anyway what is the argument I need to tell
the system what my resolution and bit depth is? Thanks to anyone who can
help.
I tried turning off the video driver in BootX but X windows died on
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 09:51:11AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm using Yaboot to boot my LinuxPPC on a G3 350 mhz,
the disk is partitioned in this way:
hdb6 (HFS) here is placed the yaboot file and kernel image
kernels do NOT belong on HFS filesystems.
hdb7 (Linux) /boot
its
Hmm, I have both modem and sound working perfectly on my pismo under a
recentish benh kernel
For the modem you need the macserial module (or compiled in which will give
you a device for the modem and one for the ir port) once htis is loaded you
can use the modem on ttyS0 or whatever.
There is
On 04 Apr 2001 09:00:21 -0700, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There's also a nice pmud plugin for gkrellm (www.gkrellm.net)
Has anyone gotten the plugin display to work with two batteries
simultaneously? When I have two batteries in my pismo, I
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