Re: Best Linux Database

2004-08-13 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Javier Blanque wrote: Postgresql is a very good DBMS. http://www.postgresql.org/ I was going to suggest it myself, because even though psql is powerful you don't actually need to USE that power. All the cute and cuddly database implementations I have tried out are small because they suck,

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-03 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Ross Vumbaca wrote: Hi, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: To clarify that, the a1bootloader isn't just using routines from GRUB, it is based around the same idea. It's a kind of GRUB for UBoot, currently only useful if you use RDB partition maps, but technically you can stuff it into an MBR as well

Re: how do I get a Sid package on a Woody system?

2004-08-02 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Dean Hamstead wrote: i would just upgrade your whole system to unstable its not actually unstable, just not ridiculously conservatively stable I still think we need to find better names for them. stable sounds like is not crashing, which means unstable sounds like is crashing. I think what

Re: AmigaONE Debian (unstable?)

2004-06-08 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:14:28PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: Since I'm no kernel hacker I'm not the guy to bug about this. Like I said, I can help with patches to kernel-package and amiga-fdisk. Kernel is not my field. I know

Re: AmigaONE Debian (unstable?)

2004-06-08 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: and it should be compilable with GCC 3.3. Oooh, I didn't notice that. It's been fixed :-) -- AmigaOne dev list FAQ (when I say F, I mean F): http://www.samfundet.no/~olegil/amiga/

Re: AmigaONE Debian (unstable?)

2004-06-07 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Turbo Fredriksson writes: Anyone have an idea how to get 'official' support for the AmigaONE in Debian GNU/Linux? Implement it. If the kernel source needs patching, try to get the patch into the main kernel.org tree, or the Debian kernel-source package, or the

Re: AmigaONE Debian (unstable?)

2004-06-07 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:51:43AM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: The firmware is U-Boot, so the kernel needs a bit of patching. Most of the guys working on the Linux kernel got tied up in writing stuff for AmigaOS4. It seems to me that unless one happens to be IBM

Re: AmigaONE Debian (unstable?)

2004-06-07 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Which is why it would help to be IBM or one of the other big players. Does it look like I'm shitting hardware? ;-) That has nothing to do with big players at all. Are you saying I have more money than IBM? I would certainly hope not ;-) Seriously, I think

Re: AmigaONE Debian (unstable?)

2004-06-07 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: Can't uboot load the ramdisk separately like yaboot can ? Duh, I must have misunderstood this then. So uboot is the bootloader for AmigaOne? Then it should be taught to load an uncompressed kernel and a separate ramdisk from a

Re: AmigaONE Debian (unstable?)

2004-06-07 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: U-Boot comes with a tool that does more or less the same as mkvmlinuz, called mkimage (takes in an elf and an optional ramdisk image and outputs a bootable image) That's crap. Fine for embedded maybe, but it should really be able

Re: AmigaONE Debian (unstable?)

2004-06-07 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:35:54PM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Which is why it would help to be IBM or one of the other big players. Does it look like I'm shitting hardware? ;-) That has nothing to do with big players at all

Re: Linux vs Mac OS 10.3(Panther)

2004-05-14 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Cedric Pradalier wrote: According to Albert Cahalan, on 13 May 2004 11:31:39 -0400, On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 11:30, Rob Latham wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 06:22:39PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: forget about streaming video and flash mplayer and mplayer-plugin make streaming video a

Re: XFree86 Bug with Dual Monitors?

2004-04-13 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Sylvain Joyeux writes: I begin to understand why some new linux people prefer going back to windows ... Try that on a PowerPC machine :) On my RS/6k that's perfectly possible, but there's a slight lack of useful applications for WinNT4.0 PowerPC... On my

/dev/psaux (was: Re: [SOLVED] status of udev on powerpc)

2004-03-24 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Michel Dnzer wrote: On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 03:02, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: Minor gotcha: I switched the X mouse device from /dev/gpmdata (I had gpm repeat mouse events) to /dev/input/mice, because I remember reading that with the new 2.6 kernel more than one processes can listen to mouse events

Re: /dev/psaux

2004-03-24 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Michel Dnzer wrote: On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 09:26, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: Michel Dnzer wrote: On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 03:02, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: Minor gotcha: I switched the X mouse device from /dev/gpmdata (I had gpm repeat mouse events) to /dev/input/mice, because I remember reading

Re: Liberated RS/6000

2003-09-30 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Iain Georgeson wrote: Segher Boessenkool [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The badge says RISC System/6000 380 This IBM system has a 59MHz POWER2 cpu. One other question: This machine has nothing I recognise as a monitor connector. It does has (left to right) 2 x 25 pin male D-types labelled S1

Re: Setting Up General Console Font DebianPPC error lockup

2003-09-08 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Thomas Otto wrote: We haven't got a boot selector yet. The environment can point to exactly one partition for booting, and if I've read it right it will load the first file on that - it has to be a PReP partition, and since it doesn't have a filesystem I guess there's only ever one file.

Re: Setting Up General Console Font DebianPPC error lockup

2003-09-08 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Thomas Otto wrote: Or, wait to see if somebody else here has an easier way. ;-) I would say you just boot your current system with the parameter 'init=/bin/bash', then do an fsck of the root fs, remount the root parition read-write and try to fix it. Now that sounds a _lot_ easier :

Re: 2.2 powerpc kernels in unstable ???

2003-08-26 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 06:59:48AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:20:39AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Hello, Is there still people using the 2.2 kernel packages with testing or unstable ? I don't speak about the 2.2 packages which came with stable.

Re: current mozilla or phoenix debs for PPC?

2003-08-07 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Chris Tillman wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 01:39:42PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: using debian stable for the last year now... and am still stuck with mozilla 1.0.0 .. are there any other apt-sources that i can add such that i can update mozilla to 1.4 - or even better get a binary of

Re: Some sound doesn't work yet

2003-08-06 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Tim Froggatt wrote: Try to install SDL. I found more or less the same problems running applications directly against oss/alsa as you do on the SB Live!, but when I went through the SDL sound wrapper it worked. libsdll is already installed apparently. Is it possible to get all programs

Re: Some sound doesn't work yet

2003-08-05 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Tim Froggatt wrote: How do I select oss or esd output? Does each application have to specifically support them, because I haven't found any options? Usually it's autodetected. Arts/esd is used if possible, if not the application will try oss. But it's on an app to app basis :-( I've

Re: PC graphic adapters on Mac Hardware

2003-08-04 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Sven Luther wrote: On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 05:05:04PM +0200, Rose Humphrey wrote: Le dimanche, 3 aoû 2003, à 09:45 Europe/Paris, Sven Luther a écrit : On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 03:21:41AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: No, as I said, this _won't_ work in general. Some low level

Re: PC graphic adapters on Mac Harware

2003-08-02 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Michel Dnzer wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 13:38, Simon Vallet wrote: I consider purchasing a graphic card for my beige G3. Is it possible to simply pick a PC card, or are there any hardware incompatibilities which would prevent it from working ? Not hardware per se, but the firmware

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll: Distro for audio and MIDI development

2003-07-31 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Rose Humphrey wrote: Le mardi, 29 juil 2003, à 14:18 Europe/Paris, Fred Heitkamp a écrit : It the AmigaOne available? I thought it was pulled from the market? Yes, at the same time Debian stopped supporting PowerPC (can I hit him? Please?) Sure, go ahead. But only with the _small_

Re: tibook+vga

2003-07-30 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Michel Dnzer wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 12:17, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 02:32, Michel Dnzer wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 18:42, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 14:30, Michel Dnzer wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 14:02, Soeren

Re: TerraTec 128i PCI sound card modules for PPC?

2003-07-30 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:43:12PM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: Tim Froggatt wrote: Hi... I'm running Woody on a G3 based AmigaOne board. I'm trying to get my TerraTec 128i PCI sound card up and running with ALSA. However, I can't seem to find any module

Re: TerraTec 128i PCI sound card modules for PPC?

2003-07-30 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 01:58:02PM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: Sven Luther wrote: The AmigaOne currently eats whatever you throw at it (well, as long as you only throw MBR and RDB at it :-)), but I use MBR because that's what Nice. I think so

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll: Distro for audio and MIDI development

2003-07-24 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
(sorry for moving the discussion, but I really only want to add something about my experience as a support-line for a few hundred AmigaOne users this past year). Also, this posting is a bit long and posted a bit early in the morning (from a subjective point of view, it's actually 9.30 in the

Re: Reconfiguring network

2003-07-23 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Kent West wrote: Steven Schlansker wrote: How do you reconfigure the network interfaces, for example to use static addresses instead of DHCP? Thanks,. Steven Edit /etc/network/interfaces. See man interfaces for details. Here's an example: # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file

Re: kernel compiling problems on iMac CRT

2003-06-25 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Michael Schmitz wrote: My config is attached. This was using GCC 3.0 on kernel-source-2.4.20-7. Is gcc 3.x required for powerpc kernels now? The ix86 kernels still recommend 2.95 FWIW. I haven't seen any mention that you shouldn't run a 3.recent gcc, just that gcc 2.95.something

Re: Great Debian / KDE! But, I can`t print and can`t hear any sound!

2003-06-23 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
José Leônidas Bier Brasileiro wrote: Hello There! I just installed Debian and KDe in my 233 iMac (after a few bumps) and I'm amazed with its looks and speed. I enjoyed a lot knowing that there is intellingent life outside of Windows/Office. But I can't configure may USB printer and I don't

Re: updated kernel problem

2003-06-22 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Martin-Éric Racine wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Sven Luther wrote: it means that the kernel-patch-2.4.20-powerpc is in truth pmac only, and should better be named kernel-patch-2.4.20-powerpc-pmac or something such ? Or am i missing something ? I have yet to see hardware-specific

Re: IDE/GUI-editor for PHP/Perl/HTML/Javascript Files in KDE

2003-06-19 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Gregory Seidman wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 01:25:43AM -0700, Eric Pretorious wrote: } I'm looking for a Integrated Development Environment or a GUI-editor with } syntax highlighting/coloring for scripting in PHP/Perl/HTML/Javascript } files in KDE. Are there any that stand-out from the

Re: AmigaOne or Pegasos for a smallish server?

2003-06-17 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:37:32PM +0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: I don't expect it to do any graphics: what I want is a free (as in speech), silent, energy-efficient, beautiful server. It will do Samba Well, a G3 altough somewhat slower than

Re: 2.4.21-ben ?

2003-06-17 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Rogério Brito wrote: Please, limit your lines to 80 characters at most (72 is preferred). And what's with your tabs? ;-) On Jun 17 2003, Kristian Peters wrote: Could someone tell me if the latest 2.4.21-ben is out ? I'd really like to see a patch or something similar

Re: AmigaOne or Pegasos for a smallish server?

2003-06-17 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Rose Humphrey wrote: Le mar 17/06/2003 à 10:44, Sven Luther a écrit : They will survive, at least the chances are greater for Genesi to survive than for Amiga. Tssst tssst, what were you saying about FUD? (I'd still like to see the Pegasos II tested for a while before recommending one

Re: AmigaOne or Pegasos for a smallish server?

2003-06-16 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Leandro Guimares Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:12:44 +0200, Rose Humphrey wrote: Le lun 16/06/2003 01:02, Leandro Guimares Faria Corsetti Dutra a crit : Currently your best bet is the AmigaOne (Teron PX), simply because there's a lot more emphasis on making it into a

Re: apt problems:

2003-06-06 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Richard Cochinos wrote: I get this mesage trying to install squirrelmail, does anyoneknow how to fix it? I don't think this is a bug b/c I'm running woody... Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up squirrelmail (1.2.6-1.3) ... Automatically configuring apache.

Re: Is make-kpkg supposed to work on ppc ?

2003-06-04 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Sven Luther wrote: Hello, ... Yesterday, i tried to build a kernel-image ppc/pegasos package with make-kpkg. The built went well, but no package was created and i didn't see any particular message in the log that could explains this, in particular, there was no error. So, is make-kpkg supposed

Re: nVidia-PPC-Linux drivers

2003-05-03 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 01:58:18PM -0500, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote: If we're going to get other GNU/Linux user lists involved, we should be banding together to exert more pressure on nVidia to release specs to Free Software developers. A binary-only solution is a

Re: nVidia-PPC-Linux drivers

2003-05-03 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Sven Luther wrote: I agree, though. Just thought the whole small bunch of people who should be running macos x seemed a little misplaced :-) Well, it was voluntary provocative, and i think it most assuredly how nvidia will think. And anyway, i guess you can count the people running non

Re: Trouble with dist-upgrade on sid

2003-04-30 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Leandro Noferini wrote: From: Leandro Noferini [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Trouble To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Summary: Keywords: User-Agent: tin/1.5.17-20030301 (Bubbles) (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.20-ben10-int (ppc)) Ciao a tutti, I got this error trying to dist-upgrade my sid:

Re: Debian with Mac.

2003-04-03 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Björn Johansson wrote: Hi! I'm going to buy a Mac in a not far away future. So I'm wondering what Macs works best with Debian3.0? How about this one? 12,1-tums TFT XGA-screen 800 MHz PowerPC G3 512 K L2-cache (vid 800 MHz) 256 MB SDRAM-memory 30 GB Ultra ATA-unit DVD/CD-RW-unit ATI Mobility

Re: kernel

2003-03-22 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Chris Tillman wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:31:00PM +0100, Ivo Bellin Salarin wrote: hi all! i am searching for a kernel for a ppc 604e with a carolina motherboard/chipset. is the kernel shipped with debian stable good for this? or I have to download something different and/or patches?

Re: RC5-72 dnetc

2003-03-08 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
David Ulrich wrote: Hi, Is there a dnetc app for RC5 prject on debian powerpc? Thx Whatcha mean on debian powerpc? The only place the dnetc client should be downloaded is from distributed.org. I am currently getting 2.3Mkeys/s RC5 and 9.0Mnodes/s OGR on my AmigaOne running 2.4.19 and

Re: optimizing my debian

2003-02-09 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Nicolai Langfeldt wrote: 255 root 7 -5 796 616 556 S0.0 0.9 0:00 diald 268 root 9 0 736 564 536 S0.0 0.9 0:00 gpm If X is working, gpm is useless. Do you use a modem? If not remove diald. Begone, foul dæmon!!! Gpm is the best thing to happen since

Re: TerraSoft PPC Motherboard.

2003-01-20 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Rogério Brito wrote: On Jan 19 2003, Craig Morehouse wrote: Has anyone tried running Linux on this poard? If successful, please reply both on-list and off, if you don't mind. Please, forgive my ignorance on the subject, but I see that lately people are talking more

Re: Suggest a really good email client

2003-01-18 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 05:23:32PM -0500, Allan Streib wrote: On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, David Zhou wrote: Pine is perfectly alright in that it's pretty easy to use. It's not free, but then again, the question didn't have free as a requirement. Pine is free as

Re: Got this far on a 7100/80

2003-01-15 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Philip Larkin Waters wrote: What is Woody? The current stable version of Debian? This is after all debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org ;-)

Re: PowerPC boot disks

2003-01-03 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Michael Schmitz wrote: It actually works under woody, but not under sid. At least what _I_ wanted to build worked... What exactly didn't work unser sid? Anyway, the woody b-f are meant to be built under woody. make check fails. dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies:

Re: PowerPC boot disks

2003-01-02 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
J Q Private wrote: Michael, Pardon my ignorance about a complete set of boot disks I burned a powerpc stable CD for woody binary 1 You aren't talking about just burning the other 6 CDs, are you? The first one worked well enough, it shouldn't be any trouble to burn the others.

Re: Do you think Debian will run on this PowerPC board?

2002-12-04 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Chris Tillman wrote: On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:11:33AM +1100, Ross Vumbaca wrote: Hi, The AmigaOne already runs Linux, I am running Debian 3.0. Other people run SuSe. Actually I'd like to create a custom boot-floppy for it, so installation of Debian 3.0 can be easy for end

Re: Do you think Debian will run on this PowerPC board?

2002-12-03 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
William Crowshaw wrote: This may be good news for people like me who'd rather not support Apple by buying their over-priced, eye-candy hardware and yet still want to use a PowerPC. The company that produces YDL is selling a PowerPC motherboard and complete systems. Here's the link with more

Re: bash commands

2002-11-19 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Daniel Danu wrote: Hi, Can you tell me please what $$ and $! mean ? Thanks, Dan from man bash: $ Expands to the process ID of the shell. In a () subshell, it expands to the process ID of the current shell, not the subshell. ! Expands to the process ID of the

Re: AmigaOne / Pegasos ?

2002-11-15 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Sven Luther wrote: That said, on linux/ppc, it would be more logic to do this kind of things in the fbdev modules or something such. I still prefer to have the information and write it myself instead of depending on i386 firmware. Yes, well. Ok for software, not so ok for firmware. Like

Re: AmigaOne / Pegasos ?

2002-11-14 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
von Boehn, Gunnar wrote: Hello, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Any problems? Does Linux support all the chips in these motherboards? I heard that the northbrigde which is used in the Amiga-One and Pegasos has a bug which makes it loose data if you copy a lot. As far as I know

Re: AmigaOne / Pegasos ?

2002-11-12 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: [Please CC to me, I'm not on the list!] Hello! Someone running Debian on AmigaOne or on Pegasos system? Any problems? Does Linux support all the chips in these motherboards? I'm interested in buying a ppc box and A1/Pegasos might be my choise.. Please post your

Re: AmigaOne / Pegasos ?

2002-11-12 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Any problems? Does Linux support all the chips in these motherboards? I'm interested in buying a ppc box and A1/Pegasos might be my choise.. Please post your comments! These machines are new, and the Linux port to AmigaOne is a work in progress. It will

Re: How to distinguish a mac from an Amiga?

2002-11-04 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Claas Langbehn wrote: quote who=Ole-Egil Hvitmyren (our main OS isn't ready, and some hundred developers will have hardware within a week or two. End user release aimed at the Linux crowd is before christmas, both in G3 and G4 versions) Morphos? Are you talking about PEGASUS

Re: How to distinguish a mac from an Amiga?

2002-11-03 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Alastair McKinstry wrote: Hello, Quick (hopefully simple) question: How do you tell the difference between an Amiga and a Mac (both ppc machines) in a script ? I need to distinguish them in picking keyboards correctly in the console packages. Thanks, Alastair McKinstry /proc/cpuinfo?

Re: Bash commands

2002-10-24 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Daniel Danu wrote: Hi, I am new to the bash and mostly Linux scripts. Where I can find useful information about the bash command syntax, like exec $build_log 21and what does it really mean? Many thanks, Dan I would suggest a good book, if I knew one. Just don't type man bash

Re: Alsa plays only wav files

2002-09-18 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Ondrej Certik wrote: --- Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Die, 2002-09-17 at 03:35, Chris Tillman wrote: dumbquestion Why don't they just put a header on the sample that indicates its endianness? IIRC that's how tiff works. /dumbquestion I think

Re: Programs...

2002-09-09 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Björn Johansson wrote: Hi! I need the following two programs: LhA and a text based CD Player. Do any of these exist in Debian3.0? http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=nameskeywords=lha ;-) (I use lha all the time myself, being an amigadude :-) )

Re: backup methods

2002-08-20 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Lars Noodén wrote: I've been trying this on a running system, perhaps that's why tar doesn't work. I guess I could try the restore after booting from a floppy disk instead when using an old world macintosh. However, I'd like to avoid a boot-disk dependent method because the G4 I will

Re: backup methods

2002-08-19 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Lars Noodén wrote: What is the recommended best practice for backing up and restoring an entire server - data, applications and all? I've tried tarring /, the same method I've used for data, but the machine (woody) doesn't boot after I un-tar it. I don't see why tar wouldn't work, but

Re: model 150 almost there

2002-08-14 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, John F Davis wrote: I can get to virtual terminal 2 and cd/ls about the filesystem. I tried to mount /dev/scd0 (My cdrom?) but it says the filesystem is read only and it wont let me mount anything. Which is weird because, I can make a directory to mount the cdrom onto and

Re: Request information - Demande d'information

2002-08-13 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Claude BONFANTI wrote: Hello, I have bought few weeks ago an IBM RS/6000 43P workstation. I wanted to change the operating system for Debian. So I looked on the website to find where to download the corresponding ISO files to my workstation model. I must admit that it is much more

Re: New - Newbie apt-get question

2002-08-01 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
deFreese, Barry wrote: O.K. so I'm trying to keep this thread alive :-). When I run apt-get install kde, I keep getting messages that it fails to pull down some files and then it says: E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? I have run apt-get

Re: Newbie apt-get question

2002-07-31 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Chris Tillman wrote: On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 04:56:59PM -0700, deFreese, Barry wrote: At 4:38 PM -0700 7/30/02, deFreese, Barry wrote: O.K., I fixed my XFree86 problem and am now running 4.1.0.1. Now my question is, how do I get it running in 1024x768 or 1280x1024? I am using the

Re: please recommend a hardware

2002-07-20 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
von Boehn, Gunnar wrote: Hi Ole-Egil, thank you very much for your fast answer. [..] I happen to have an AmigaOne running Debian at home right now. Where did you get this AmigaONE? I wanted to buy a board from eyetech, but they said they will only ship them when AMIGA OS4 is finished