thx as always Tobias, Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Tobias Netzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:11:10 PM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches
Hi Vito, you can only install distributions that support the 2.4 kernel. So knoppix will not work. As far as I know Suse does no longer support the PowerPC and I don't know where to get CD images from. On the mailing list was a report of a successful install of Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog). Tobias Am 28.02.2006 um 18:11 schrieb Vito: > Has anyone out there gotten knoppix, Suse or Ubuntu working on the > nubus machines with the current miboot image that tobias, Daniel, > Florian and others have worked on? For those of us less savy in the > linux world - those distributions are appealing, as they leave some > things less to chance (the chance of someone like me breaking the > system) while providing a great selection of programs, with autodetect > and automount already in place. > > Vito > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Vito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:56:43 AM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug > patches > > thx again > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Florian Boelstler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:51:56 AM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug > patches > > > > Guy Paddock wrote: >> I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off during startup >> recovery too. I have found that the only work-around is to boot from >> the >> installer and run mount. > > I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the installer > components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are loaded) and > then switch to a shell. > > Then I manually invoke the repair process: > fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/... > ^^ > To be replaced by your root partition. > > Good luck, > > Florian > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting > language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. 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Attend the live > webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding > territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel? > cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > Nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > Hi Vito, you can only install distributions that support the 2.4 kernel. So knoppix will not work. As far as I know Suse does no longer support the PowerPC and I don't know where to get CD images from. On the mailing list was a report of a successful install of Ubuntu 4.10 (<x-tad-bigger>Warty Warthog). Tobias </x-tad-bigger> Am 28.02.2006 um 18:11 schrieb Vito: <excerpt>Has anyone out there gotten knoppix, Suse or Ubuntu working on the nubus machines with the current miboot image that tobias, Daniel, Florian and others have worked on? For those of us less savy in the linux world - those distributions are appealing, as they leave some things less to chance (the chance of someone like me breaking the system) while providing a great selection of programs, with autodetect and automount already in place. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Vito <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:56:43 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches thx again ----- Original Message ---- From: Florian Boelstler <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:51:56 AM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Guy Paddock wrote: <excerpt>I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off during startup recovery too. I have found that the only work-around is to boot from the installer and run mount. </excerpt> I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the installer components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are loaded) and then switch to a shell. Then I manually invoke the repair process: fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/... ^^ To be replaced by your root partition. Good luck, Florian ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. 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