On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Christian Walther wrote:
> Two issues that I recently encountered with 8.2b1 on my Wallstreet > Powerbook: > > o Does Linux have any way of knowing the hostname that was set in MacOS X?? > When starting Linux, my Powerbook suddenly had the hostname "CWalthers > PowerBook G3" that I had given it in MacOS X instead of the normal > "localhost", and I'm pretty sure that I had never mentioned "CWalthers > PowerBook G3" to Linux (because I suspected that Linux would not support > hostnames with spaces in them, while I expect MacOS (X) not to allow me to > do things that don't work). The only way I know that would be picked up is if it's provided by a dhcpd server. > > This caused another problem: When I tried to start KDE, it failed > complaining about not being able to open some file ".DCOPserver..." (can't > remember the exact name, but it had the new hostname in it). This problem > vanished when I set the hostname back to "localhost". > > o I haven't been able to get Mac-On-Linux to recognize my CD drive. I added > "blkdev: /dev/hdc -cd -boot" to /etc/molrc, and all I get when starting MOL > is > ----> (disk_open) Opening /dev/hdc1: No such device > ----> (disk_open) Opening /dev/hdc2: No such device > ----> (disk_open) Opening /dev/hdc3: No such device > ...and so on until... > ----> (disk_open) Opening /dev/hdc15: No such device > > I tried switching off supermount, but that didn't change anything. > > The CD drive is definitely /dev/hdc, as I could even mount the MacOS > installation CD from there to copy out the MacOS ROM file. > Never tried booting MOL from CD. I have the same entry here, without -boot. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/ Cooker-PPC IRC: irc.openprojects.net/#cooker-ppc
