Re: Feedback on patch to PowerPC ports pmac page requested

2005-10-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 07:24:23PM -0700, Shyamal Prasad wrote: Hi all, http://www.us.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac is quite out of date. I use new Mac hardware (G5), and have little experience with minimal installs of Debian since potato. Comments on the patch below would be

Re: Request for help to identify some bugs (part two)

2005-10-23 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Hi Ben, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: How do you set it to u/dma2 and remind me the exact machine model It tryed to set the combo drive to udma2 both with hdparm -q -d1 -X udma2 /dev/hdc and with command_line {hdparm -q -d1 -X udma2 /dev/hdc} in /etc/hdparm.conf (if I use transfert_mode,

Re: Problem with clock on Beige G3

2005-10-23 Thread Sylvain Joyeux
Does this patch fixes it ? Sorry for the late reply, it does fix the problem. Thanks a lot ! -- Sylvain Joyeux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

reinstalling tiger

2005-10-23 Thread kohzak
Hi all i'm running osx Panther and Debian etch on my ibook 12 G4. I would like to know if it will be a problem to install Tiger. Will it erase my dual boot ? Will i have to reinstall my Debian ? thanks for any information about that. koh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: reinstalling tiger

2005-10-23 Thread Jorge Salamero Sanz
On Sunday 23 October 2005 12:00, kohzak wrote: i'm running osx Panther and Debian etch on my ibook 12 G4. I would like to know if it will be a problem to install Tiger. Will it erase my dual boot ? yes Will i have to reinstall my Debian ? no thanks for any information about that. just

Re: reinstalling tiger

2005-10-23 Thread Douglas Russell
On Sunday 23 October 2005 11:00, kohzak wrote: Hi all i'm running osx Panther and Debian etch on my ibook 12 G4. I would like to know if it will be a problem to install Tiger. Will it erase my dual boot ? When you install Tiger you'll have to make sure that you install it into the

Re: reinstalling tiger

2005-10-23 Thread kohzak
Hi all Thanks for your quick answer. Jorge Salamero Sanz a écrit : On Sunday 23 October 2005 12:00, kohzak wrote: i'm running osx Panther and Debian etch on my ibook 12 G4. I would like to know if it will be a problem to install Tiger. Will it erase my dual boot ? yes Will i

Re: reinstalling tiger

2005-10-23 Thread Jorge Salamero Sanz
On Sunday 23 October 2005 12:21, kohzak wrote: hum,  sorry but how i do that ? Just being root and go to /mnt/mypartition ? mount -t xxx /dev/hdaX /mnt/foo chroot /mnt/foo ybin -v instead the last two instructions you can also do ybin -v -c /mnt/foo/etc/yaboot.conf

Re: reinstalling tiger

2005-10-23 Thread Andrzej Mendel
Dnia 23-10-2005, nie o godzinie 12:51 +0200, Jorge Salamero Sanz napisał(a): On Sunday 23 October 2005 12:21, kohzak wrote: hum, sorry but how i do that ? Just being root and go to /mnt/mypartition ? mount -t xxx /dev/hdaX /mnt/foo chroot /mnt/foo ybin -v instead the last two

Re: reinstalling tiger

2005-10-23 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Douglas Russell wrote: It will destroy your yaboot stuff, so I've always booted a CD and rerun yaboot to reinstall the bootloader stuff. I think it might be possible to switch back to yaboot by booting to openfirmware and making a choice there, but I've always done the above and it worked

Re: reinstalling tiger

2005-10-23 Thread Yannick Roehlly
Le Dimanche 23 Octobre 2005 14:15, marco a écrit : Il giorno dom, 23/10/2005 alle 13.59 +0200, Yannick Roehlly ha scritto: Here a simple reset of the openfirmware (Command-Option-P-R a the starting of the ibook) does the trick to start again yaboot after a MacOS X reinstallation. I think

Re: Feedback on patch to PowerPC ports pmac page requested

2005-10-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Rogério == Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rogério On Oct 22 2005, Shyamal Prasad wrote: as +little as 600 to 700M for a really basic system, but you'll Rogério I question the 600 to 700M figures for a really basic Rogério system. I think that these numbers are too high

Re: Feedback on patch to PowerPC ports pmac page requested

2005-10-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Sven == Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 07:24:23PM -0700, Shyamal Prasad Sven wrote: the G4) you also have the option of choosing a 2.4 kernel in case your hardware is really old. However most hardware built after 2001 should be well

Re: Feedback on patch to PowerPC ports pmac page requested

2005-10-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:33:32AM -0700, Shyamal Prasad wrote: So perhaps the statement needs to be something like For users of the powerpc flavour a 2.4 kernel is also provided to support Amiga Power-UP (apus) systems, and as a fall back for users with external kernel modules that are not

Re: Request for help to identify some bugs (part two)

2005-10-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 11:10 +0200, Yannick Roehlly wrote: Hrm... This is a slot loading CD ? I don't know what KDE is trying to do there. Do you actually have a media in hte drive when that happen ? The problem occurs at the moment I insert a CD in the slot drive. In some rare cases,

Re: reinstalling tiger

2005-10-23 Thread Derrik Pates
kohzak wrote: I would like to know if it will be a problem to install Tiger. Will it erase my dual boot ? You might need to hold the Option key at boot, select Linux, and once the system's booted, rerun 'ybin'. Other than that, it should just work. Will i have to reinstall my Debian ? No.

kernel 2.6.8 and 2.6.12 fail to boot on bluewhite G3

2005-10-23 Thread Patrick Finnegan
I just installed debian on a blue and white G3 (another story in itself, see my next email), and tried to install a 2.6 kernel, both kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc from stable, and 2.6.12 from testing. Both kernels panic when trying modprobing the cmd64x ide driver in their initrd. I had to

Netboot install trouble on a blue and white G3.

2005-10-23 Thread Patrick Finnegan
After trying to figure out how to netboot the sarge installer on my blue and white G3, I had to give up and use the woody installer instead. The problems I ran into: 1) The install document says to use yaboot to boot the kernel. There's no yaboot or yaboot.conf files in the installer