Re: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Ben Reser
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 04:42:48PM -0400, Jonathan Sailor wrote: > Weird My Titanium came from Taiwan, made a stop in Alaska to clear customers and then was delivered to me. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org Just when you think you're not in Kansas anymore, turns out you ar

Re: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Stew Benedict wrote: SB> You create it - put it in /boot and add an entry in /etc/yaboot.conf: SB> SB> image=hd:11,/boot/vmlinuz-2.2 SB> label=linux-2.2 SB> root=/dev/hda11 SB> initrd=hd:11,/boot/initrd-2.2.img SB> read-only SB> SB> The run ybi

partitioning bug on IBM hardware

2001-09-11 Thread Todd Inglett
Hi all... Finally getting back to some time trying Mandrake on IBM hardware. I have a 43p 140 and got my own 2.4.10-pre4 kernel running on it. I rsync'ed the latest ppc cooker from wtfo (yesterday) and used all-2.2.gz as the ramdisk 'cause the all.gz is a bit too big for a floppy :(. This

Re: ram question

2001-09-11 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue Sep 11, 2001 at 02:40:17AM -0400, Zack wrote: > To my knowledge, only 133 mobo's can utilize 133 and 100 RAM. 100 mobos cannot >utilize 133 RAM. > > Check www.ramseeker.com for the cheapest RAM prices, as well as upgrade guides. >Everymac.com is also a good resource for this - lookup y

Re: no sense

2001-09-11 Thread Juan Leon
On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, at 03:56 PM, francisco perez wrote: i am very happy to receive 25 emails from people that don't care about nyc hard to explain i hope you guys are ok Fran I agree with you Fran...God bless you! God Bless America

RE: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Jonathan Sailor wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > If yaboot didn't support ResierFS, then you would need an ext2 > partition for the kernel, a root, and a HFS bootstrap, at minimum so > why not just make one for booting? > At worst you need ext2

Re: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Henrik Edlund wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Stew Benedict wrote: > > SB> In that scenario, you may still need them, as the modules reside > SB> on /lib and you'll need them to mount "/". To assure they(it) is > SB> included in the initrd image, use the "--with=" option: >

Re: no sense

2001-09-11 Thread Andreas Steffens
Hi Francisco, I think everybody is sorry and angry about the terror which is going on in NYC, Washington etc. Also I think that the most people are shocked and nearly everybody is watching the latest news on TV. I am doing this since approx 05.00 p.m. here in germany, this is the time I heard

Re: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Sylvain OBEGI
Ok, because mine stopped by Apple's office (Eire too I guess :) Sylvain OBEGI Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 661913 - Original Message - From: "Henrik Edlund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 10:54 PM Subject: Re: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandr

Re: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Stew Benedict wrote: SB> In that scenario, you may still need them, as the modules reside SB> on /lib and you'll need them to mount "/". To assure they(it) is SB> included in the initrd image, use the "--with=" option: SB> SB> [root@imac root]# /sbin/mkinitrd --with=reiserfs

Re: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Sylvain OBEGI wrote: SO> It also seems that before being delivered, they stop by Apple's office. Not according to the person I talked to. If you had add-ons, like printers, they stop by Eire (here in Europe) so be repackaged with add-ons. but not otherwise. -- Henrik Edlun

RE: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Jonathan Sailor wrote: JS> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- JS> Hash: SHA1 JS> JS> Weird There is probably considerly economic benefits of building the computers where the components are made and then shipping them directly from the factory. -- Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROT

RE: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Jonathan Sailor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If yaboot didn't support ResierFS, then you would need an ext2 partition for the kernel, a root, and a HFS bootstrap, at minimum so why not just make one for booting? - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On B

Re: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Sylvain OBEGI
It also seems that before being delivered, they stop by Apple's office. Sylvain OBEGI Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 661913 - Original Message - From: "Jonathan Sailor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 10:42 PM Subject: RE: ReiserFS/ext3 fo

RE: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Henrik Edlund wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Jonathan Sailor wrote: > > JS> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > JS> Hash: SHA1 > JS> > JS> I might suggest making an ext2 partition for /boot just to make > JS> yaboot happy. Or since yaboot needs an HFS partition, you might j

Re: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Henrik Edlund wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Stew Benedict wrote: > > SB> I have not tried it, so I can't really recommend a procedure. Nor did I > SB> try anything with Reiser and the installer. Obviously Reiser code is in > SB> the installer as it is the same one used fo

Re: scsi drivers don't work

2001-09-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Robert Zelnik wrote: > If I started madrake with kernel from other distro (LinuxPPC or YDL), it > uses MESH (for internal SCSI) and 53C94 (for external SCSI) drivers. > Mandrake kernel doesn't include this drivers (or they don't work well on > OldWorld PMac with BootX). I

RE: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Jonathan Sailor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Weird - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Henrik Edlund Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 4:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake? On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Jonath

Re: no sense

2001-09-11 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, francisco perez wrote: fp> i am very happy to receive 25 emails from people that don't care fp> about nyc fp> fp> hard to explain fp> fp> i hope you guys are ok I am sure we are all very sorry for what happened. I am following what's happening on CNN while I continue to work

RE: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Jonathan Sailor wrote: JS> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- JS> Hash: SHA1 JS> JS> - From Taiwan? They are being built in Taiwan according to the person I spoke to at Apple. When they are built they are shipped to the buyer. Build time (queue time I would say) is 9 days cu

RE: no sense

2001-09-11 Thread Jonathan Sailor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It's OK to be sad about it. As I said before, I am too. - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of francisco perez Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 4:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: no sense

Re: no sense

2001-09-11 Thread francisco perez
sorry, i don't want to disturb, you got the reason , i just feel so bad, excuse me. Fran _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

RE: no sense

2001-09-11 Thread Jonathan Sailor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 We do care. I am OK (or you wouldn't be reading this ;-( - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of francisco perez Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 3:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: no sense

RE: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Jonathan Sailor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - From Taiwan? - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Henrik Edlund Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 3:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake? On Tue, 11 Sep 200

Re: no sense

2001-09-11 Thread Dick Visser
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, francisco perez wrote: > i am very happy to receive 25 emails from people that don't care about nyc > > hard to explain > > i hope you guys are ok this list is about pc stuff, not about regular news. i also feel very very bad about nyc but he there are others ways for expr

no sense

2001-09-11 Thread francisco perez
i am very happy to receive 25 emails from people that don't care about nyc hard to explain i hope you guys are ok Fran _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

RE: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Jonathan Sailor wrote: JS> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- JS> Hash: SHA1 JS> JS> I might suggest making an ext2 partition for /boot just to make JS> yaboot happy. Or since yaboot needs an HFS partition, you might just JS> want one HFS partition for yaboot and /boot. Can

Re: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Stew Benedict wrote: SB> I have not tried it, so I can't really recommend a procedure. Nor did I SB> try anything with Reiser and the installer. Obviously Reiser code is in SB> the installer as it is the same one used for Intel, but at the time I was SB> more concerned with

RE: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Jonathan Sailor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I might suggest making an ext2 partition for /boot just to make yaboot happy. Or since yaboot needs an HFS partition, you might just want one HFS partition for yaboot and /boot. - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

RE: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Jonathan Sailor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It should. - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Henrik Edlund Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 9:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake? On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, S

RE: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Jonathan Sailor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ext3? - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ryan C. Gordon Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 8:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake? Are ReiserFS and/or ext3 stab

scsi drivers don't work

2001-09-11 Thread Robert Zelnik
If I started madrake with kernel from other distro (LinuxPPC or YDL), it uses MESH (for internal SCSI) and 53C94 (for external SCSI) drivers. Mandrake kernel doesn't include this drivers (or they don't work well on OldWorld PMac with BootX). Is there any way to get mandrake kernel with this dr

Re: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Henrik Edlund wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Stew Benedict wrote: > > SB> > SB> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Ryan C. Gordon wrote: > SB> > SB> > > SB> > Are ReiserFS and/or ext3 stable for PPC? If so, has anyone got > SB> > recommendations for the best way to get them installed on

Re: Internal SCSI drives not seen by DrakX...

2001-09-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Patrick Ladam wrote: > Stew Benedict wrote: > > > The SCSI issue may be due to my omitting the aic7xxx driver. Do you > > know what SCSI card the machine uses? As far as being able to boot MacOS > > from ofboot, that should not rely at all on the Linux kernel, as the whol

Re: Internal SCSI drives not seen by DrakX...

2001-09-11 Thread Patrick Ladam
Stew Benedict wrote: > The SCSI issue may be due to my omitting the aic7xxx driver. Do you > know what SCSI card the machine uses? As far as being able to boot MacOS > from ofboot, that should not rely at all on the Linux kernel, as the whole > process takes place before Linux ever comes into p

Re: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Stew Benedict wrote: SB> SB> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Ryan C. Gordon wrote: SB> SB> > SB> > Are ReiserFS and/or ext3 stable for PPC? If so, has anyone got SB> > recommendations for the best way to get them installed on Mandrake/PPC? I SB> > just kicked the plug out of my iMac, a

Re: Configuring keyboard

2001-09-11 Thread Andreas Steffens
Hi David, could it be that you did not started the keytable daemon ? Look into "drakxservices" if it is started ! Also you can configure the keyboard in the Mandrake Control Center ! After my first installation on my iBook 2001, I had a keytable problem, too, what I could not solve. So I rein

Re: ram question

2001-09-11 Thread Nicholas Meyer
on 9/11/01 1:40 AM, Zack at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To my knowledge, only 133 mobo's can utilize 133 and 100 RAM. 100 mobos cannot > utilize 133 RAM. Other way around: 133 mobo's can only use 133 ram, while 100's can use 100 and 133. Nick > > Check www.ramseeker.com for the cheapest RAM pri

Configuring keyboard

2001-09-11 Thread David Kiltz
Hello everybody, so I managed to install Mandrake PPC 8.0. Works fine for me. The installer is now working pretty well (thanks folks !). It seemed as though I had to set the bootstrap as "active" ? Never mind. JFYI, funny thing is, when I hit the boot option "l" at the yaboot prompt I get an

Re: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Ryan C. Gordon wrote: > > Are ReiserFS and/or ext3 stable for PPC? If so, has anyone got > recommendations for the best way to get them installed on Mandrake/PPC? I > just kicked the plug out of my iMac, and had to suffer the wait through a > fsck. :) > ReiserFS endian-

Re: Internal SCSI drives not seen by DrakX...

2001-09-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Patrick Ladam wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > I have a Blue/White G3 Rev.1 (yosemite) and have been running different linux > distros > for 2 years (LPPC, YDL...). First, congrats for DrakX which sounds really nice, > for the french > Kbd too... > Thought, I ran through a prob

ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Ryan C. Gordon
Are ReiserFS and/or ext3 stable for PPC? If so, has anyone got recommendations for the best way to get them installed on Mandrake/PPC? I just kicked the plug out of my iMac, and had to suffer the wait through a fsck. :) Thanks, --ryan.

Internal SCSI drives not seen by DrakX...

2001-09-11 Thread Patrick Ladam
Hi everyone, I have a Blue/White G3 Rev.1 (yosemite) and have been running different linux distros for 2 years (LPPC, YDL...). First, congrats for DrakX which sounds really nice, for the french Kbd too... Thought, I ran through a problem with DrakX (Final Mandrake 8.0 PPC) which was unable to se

Re: Kernel Panic

2001-09-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Louis-Pierre Morin wrote: > > > What machine, and which kernel? There is both 2.2 and 2.4 on the > > CD. You could try the other kernel. > > > > Stew Benedict > > Well I don't really know I just pop the CD in hit tab select any of > the boot type and it hangs anyways. >

Re: ram question

2001-09-11 Thread Sylvain OBEGI
Theorically a PC133 ram in a PC100 compatible mainboard will run at 100Mhz without problems. But with some rams and mobo, there are problems. But, if at 100Mhz, switching from PC100 to PC133 will give you no perf boost. So it's no use. Personnally, after having problems with bad ram, I now use onl