Re: debian-powerpc: g4 powerbook and writeable CD/DVD

2001-05-16 Thread Stefan Kluth
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Brendan J Simon wrote: I'm going to buy a G4 PowerBook :) :) :) :) :) good for you (and Apple). I currently run Debian Linux/PPC Testing with kernel 2.4.2 on my G3 PowerBook :) :) :) I want to buy a writeable CD or DVD drive so I can backup and also boot the machine

Re: Why can't yaboot work with oldworld as first stage?

2001-05-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 06:18:34PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: no. oldworld OpenFirmware does nothing more then activate the hardware MacOSROM, this is on a ROM chip and has nothing to do with any sort of disk media. It obviously does more, or quik wouldn't work ;) in its standard

Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

2001-05-16 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 06:36:58PM +, Duncan Gibb wrote: On 15-May-01, Alan Buxey wrote: AB certainly boot-programs (such as the APUS/AF-booter (by Mr Duncan ) AB need MUI libraries, but the plain boothack/bootstrap for APUS just AB needs powerpc.library, which is in ROM Evening, Dr

Re: Executing shell scripts on the linux server from the mac-side.

2001-05-16 Thread Gjermund Gusland Thorsen
Eeh… I use ssh most the time and all those regular .sh are launched by crontab, but I need to execute some scripts on a more pr opinion basis, and it would be very convenient to put a .sh file in the same folder as to where I’d like the task to be performed. Security risk or no? I’m only

Re: ReiserFS on blank hard drive

2001-05-16 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
On Wednesday 16 May 2001 01:43, Ethan Benson wrote: install both disks and use cpio. i never reinstall the OS for something as mundane as a disk upgrade. Well, I never opened my Pismo but I'd think that there is only one IDE connector... Anyone have experience with that? fixing bugs takes

Re: ReiserFS on blank hard drive

2001-05-16 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: I already have /usr as a separate partition. But how do you teach apt to remount it read-write and then read-only again? Why make / 64 MB big when making /tmp and /var as a separate partition? Both could find place on that partition...

Re: Executing shell scripts on the linux server from the mac-side.

2001-05-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:26:41AM +0200, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote: Eeh… I use ssh most the time and all those regular .sh are launched by crontab, but I need to execute some scripts on a more pr opinion basis, and it would be very convenient to put a .sh file in the same folder as to

Re: ReiserFS on blank hard drive

2001-05-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:47:45AM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: On Wednesday 16 May 2001 01:43, Ethan Benson wrote: install both disks and use cpio. i never reinstall the OS for something as mundane as a disk upgrade. Well, I never opened my Pismo but I'd think that there is

Re: Executing shell scripts on the linux server from the mac-side.

2001-05-16 Thread Steven Hanley
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:26:41AM +0200, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote: Eeh… I use ssh most the time and all those regular .sh are launched by crontab, but I need to execute some scripts on a more pr opinion basis, and it would be very convenient to put a .sh file in the same folder as to

Re: ReiserFS on blank hard drive

2001-05-16 Thread Just a friendly Jedi Knight
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:43:37PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: you are looking for more reliability and stability, that is not something you can really expect from any of the journalling filesystems quite yet. yes yes some people love to say IWFM, but there are plenty of others with horror

Re: Executing shell scripts on the linux server from the mac-side.

2001-05-16 Thread Gjermund Gusland Thorsen
Hmm… is there a thing in the sisterhood of crontab that can trigger scripts on changes in for example number of files in a folder? the problem is that I have these scripts running every 15 mins now… and I’d like them to run only when they have to. Gjermund On onsdag 16. mai 2001 11:40, Steven

Re: ReiserFS on blank hard drive

2001-05-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:38:18AM +0200, Just a friendly Jedi Knight wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:43:37PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: you are looking for more reliability and stability, that is not something you can really expect from any of the journalling filesystems quite yet.

Re: Executing shell scripts on the linux server from the mac-side.

2001-05-16 Thread Steven Hanley
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:42:28AM +0200, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote: Hmm… is there a thing in the sisterhood of crontab that can trigger scripts on changes in for example number of files in a folder? the problem is that I have these scripts running every 15 mins now… and I’d like them

Re: manual install

2001-05-16 Thread Andrew D Dixon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:36:30PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, you can do that. There is a script in /sbin (I think) called unconfigured.sh that you want to hack. That's just a script that prints out a message telling

Xf86free died: how to go back to 4.0.2-7

2001-05-16 Thread Kimmo Lehtonen
I have a Apple Powerbook G3 Wallstreet (Ati 3D Rage LT Pro) and running Debian/testing. I had X 4.0.2. working fine with accelerated ati-driver there but decided to upgrade to 4.0.3 (a moment of ultimate boredom and stupidity) and now the ati-driver does not work any more. I can get fbdev running

Kernel 2.4.4 wrong magic

2001-05-16 Thread Jason Healy
Today I obtained kernel-image-2.4.4-1 from the unstable tree. I installed it, updated my yaboot.conf to point to the new kernel, and gave it a reboot. When the machine gets going, it starts to boot the kernel, and then dies, unable to mount the root filesystem. It says wrong magic and then

Re: ReiserFS on blank hard drive

2001-05-16 Thread Peter Cordes
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:35:03AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: because /var and /tmp have no business being on the root partition. they should be seperate partitions (or if you use 2.4 kernels /tmp should perhaps be tmpfs. anyone have any docs/info on advantages of this?) ext2 is probably

Re: manual install

2001-05-16 Thread Peter Cordes
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 08:50:24AM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: That's consistent with what I've found so far. I can boot the box into single user mode but it'll hang trying to initialize inetd if I try a normal boot. The network is broken when I do get the box up so I'm guessing that