Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Rohan Lloyd
Fabian Am Donnerstag, 26. April 2001 11:17 schrieb Jens Schmalzing: Hi, I've just finished some very preliminary version of the promised Mac-on-Linux packages and put them into incoming. They should appear Fabian Installation and configuration went fine for me but MacOS Fabian won't boot.

Re: Delete key?

2001-04-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:34:01PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: I read in some documentation that the key combination for shutting down Linux in an orderly way, from any user account, is Ctrl-Alt-Delete. I figure the equivalent on the iMac keyboard is Ctrl-Opt, but I wonder what substitutes

X 4.0.2 on Firewire iBook

2001-04-27 Thread Brian Dunnette
Okay... after much X-related frustration, I've upgraded my iBook to unstable. However, I still can't seem to get X to work (when I run 'startx', my screen goes blank except for a single horizontal white line...) I realize this has been discussed before, but even after reading the archives,

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: IMO the default molrc should look for the rom in /usr/local/lib/mol/something Is that Debian compliant? I'd expect the rom to be in /etc/mol/. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:32:24AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: IMO the default molrc should look for the rom in /usr/local/lib/mol/something Is that Debian compliant? I'd expect the rom to be in /etc/mol/. i don't know what policy really says

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Geert Uytterhoeven writes: IMO the default molrc should look for the rom in /usr/local/lib/mol/something Is that Debian compliant? I'd expect the rom to be in /etc/mol/. If I understand the FHS Section 4.4 correctly, putting the MacOS ROM image under /usr/lib/mol is fine. After all,

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:32:24AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: IMO the default molrc should look for the rom in /usr/local/lib/mol/something Is that Debian compliant? I'd expect the rom to be in

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:54:07AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Geert Uytterhoeven writes: IMO the default molrc should look for the rom in /usr/local/lib/mol/something Is that Debian compliant? I'd expect the rom to be in /etc/mol/. If I understand the FHS Section 4.4

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: there is also the issue of MacOS upgrades, if MacOS is upgraded and its ROM replaced it will crash the next time mol is run since it deals with mismatched ROMs very poory. ultimatly the user just has to know about this and how to deal with it

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:55:29AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: My first guess was /var, but since it is some sort of configuration setting, I think it belongs in /etc. The idea is that you can backup your configuration by backing up /etc. Hmmm... this stil doesn't backup yout list of

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:27:43AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Or make a Debian package of MacOS and put it in non-free? :-) as funny as that sounds its actually possible (not legally), though not very practical since it would be at least a 100MB package. mol works quite fine running

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Ethan Benson writes: in this case presuming you ask the user via debconf where thier macos partition is and you manage to copy the ROM over yourself, and be sure to remove it on package removal (--purge?) then /usr/lib/mol would be fine. That's what I had in mind. As for the details

Re: Delete key?

2001-04-27 Thread james
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 11:36:54PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: something else ive wondered, why can't control-command-power be trapped by init and used as ctrlaltdel? is this hardwired in hardware and untrappable by software? AFAIK this is true on ADB systems. Only twice have I seen

Re: X 4.0.2 on Firewire iBook

2001-04-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
Brian Dunnette wrote: Okay... after much X-related frustration, I've upgraded my iBook to unstable. Why not testing? Do you really need unstable (both have the same X currently)? However, I still can't seem to get X to work (when I run 'startx', my screen goes blank except for a single

Re: Delete key?

2001-04-27 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
On Friday 27 April 2001 09:36, Ethan Benson wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:34:01PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: I read in some documentation that the key combination for shutting down Linux in an orderly way, from any user account, is Ctrl-Alt-Delete. I figure the equivalent on the iMac

Re: Delete key?

2001-04-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:38:27PM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: It appeared in this mailinglist a few ago. Somebody found out that Shift-Fn-Ctrl + Command equals ctrlaltdel. It works on my Pismo. Even init recognizes it such that my Pismo powers down when I press this key

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Fabian Jakobs
I had the same problem with trying to run Classic under MacOSX. I looked in http://discussions.info.apple.com and found a link to the following TechNote: http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n106277 It's a problem if you have MacOSX installed on UFS. Maybe the same fix will fix

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Fabian Jakobs
Am Donnerstag, 26. April 2001 18:30 schrieb Philippe Lelédy: On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Fabian Jakobs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 26. April 2001 11:17 schrieb Jens Schmalzing: Hi, Ihr Computer kann mit der Systemsoftware auf diesem Startvolume nicht starten. Installieren Sie bitte die für diesen

Re: X 4.0.2 on Firewire iBook

2001-04-27 Thread Kin Chung
Brian Dunnette wrote: Okay... after much X-related frustration, I've upgraded my iBook to unstable. However, I still can't seem to get X to work (when I run 'startx', my screen goes blank except for a single Been there, done that... My experience suggests that you need to have a _useful_

Re: mol comments

2001-04-27 Thread Samuel Rydh
Forget about it - just use 0.9.58, it supports the TiBook. Your diff works almost smoothly with the newer source as well :-) Except from TiBook support, it seems the changes from 0.9.57 are: * More than one mol running at a time (doesn't work yet, though) Actually, multi-session support *is*

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Derrik Pates
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Fabian Jakobs wrote: Now I have it and I'm very impressed. Mol seems to be really fast and stable but what is bothering me is, that I have to start it as root. In an earlier version I could load the kernel modules in an init scrips and was then able to start mol as

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Samuel Rydh
Now I have it and I'm very impressed. Mol seems to be really fast and stable but what is bothering me is, that I have to start it as root. In an earlier version I could load the kernel modules in an init scrips and was then able to start mol as regular user. I found that loading 'molsymglue2'

Re: Delete key?

2001-04-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:28:33AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK this is true on ADB systems. Only twice have I seen Ctrl-Cmd-Power not restart an ADB Mac, and those were seriously fscked systems. And there have been endless discussions on Mac server mailing lists about how the

ppc prep boot

2001-04-27 Thread Phillip Strauss
While formatting a drive today I just noticed the fs type of PPC PReP boot. I am by no means a ybin/yaboot expert (in fact very far from it) so excuse me if this question is just ridiculous. Would this be a valid file system for a bootstrap partition for my RS/6000? Phil

ipmasq and rsh

2001-04-27 Thread Arne Scheffler
I got a problem here. I got an old mac which is the router to the internet. On my other mac, I have to use cvs to get source. I only can make a rsh connection to the cvs-server. The problem is that rserver only permits connections on ports between 500 1000, but the masquerading changes the port

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 03:33:03PM +0200, Samuel Rydh wrote: The startmol script has a --loadonly option which does the trick for you. Just add startmol --loadonly to the rc.local file. we don't wear red hats here, there is no such file on a debian system. please read

Re: ppc prep boot

2001-04-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 01:11:12PM -0500, Phillip Strauss wrote: While formatting a drive today I just noticed the fs type of PPC PReP boot. I am by no means a ybin/yaboot expert (in fact very far from it) so excuse me if this question is just ridiculous. Would this be a valid file system for

Re: Debian packages for Mac-on-Linux in incoming

2001-04-27 Thread Fabian Jakobs
Am Freitag, 27. April 2001 15:33 schrieb Samuel Rydh: Now I have it and I'm very impressed. Mol seems to be really fast and stable but what is bothering me is, that I have to start it as root. In an earlier version I could load the kernel modules in an init scrips and was then able to