Re: PB t get CD boot from mac 9.1
But when i try to burn CD ROM with toast, it does work . First i see that name is too long (BEWARE ANY NAME event in CD should be less than 32 caracters). two what option should i use ? (alias resolution ?) and repertorie name ? ) What is the name of CD ROM (? i get CD ROM ?) did you try to make cd under 9.1 ? How to do this correctly ? Could you please tell my your option ? Why don't you explain on you web how to to with standard ? i use a firewire burner. it could running under 9.1 our mac os X. i have toast titanium for 9.1. Probably you tried to burn a MacOS CD containing the image file instead of burning the image directly. You have to choose Disc Image from the Other menu (rightmost of the blue buttons) and then drag the image file into the window. It should then say 649.5 MB Mac/ISO Hybrid CD-ROM. -Christian
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Wow, I see that MDK8.2b2 uses a vga driver for XFree86-4.2 on my ppc6500/250. I don't even want to know how this is possible, but I like it :-) Thismight havefixed my major problem with the 6500/250, frequent lockups in X using fbdev or the ati driver. I just have one problem with the vga driver, it won't shut down properly, it just hangs with a black screen (machine still accepts ssh connections, so it's not dead). Does anybody know how to fix this? /Stig
Re: Kernel panic after successfull install
Hello! Didn't setup kernel/initrd in BootX to boot the system? (check the BootX folder on the CD) Stew Benedict Ok, it works now. Thank you. By the way, I think I found a little bug or something. When using graphical install and selecting packages to install I selected nothing, ie. I wanted very minimal installation. It then asked question about how minimal installation I wanted. There were three choises, and I selected the second. Can't remember exactly but I think it is recommended choice. Then it says Undefined subroutine install_any::set DefaultPackages called and installer falls back to the drive partitioning stage. I tried it twice and it failed. It works ok when I selected something to install. -Janne Karjanlahti
Re: your mail
On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Stig Sørensen wrote: Wow, I see that MDK8.2b2 uses a vga driver for XFree86-4.2 on my ppc6500/250. I don't even want to know how this is possible, but I like it :-) This might have fixed my major problem with the 6500/250, frequent lockups in X using fbdev or the ati driver. I just have one problem with the vga driver, it won't shut down properly, it just hangs with a black screen (machine still accepts ssh connections, so it's not dead). Does anybody know how to fix this? /Stig It really is using vga? fbdev gets setup on my 7600. There's a vga entry in the config, but it normally doesn't get used. There were reports of similar lockups leaving X sometime back with ati, which ended up being a kernel driver issue. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/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
Re: PB t get CD boot from mac 9.1
Thanks, I don't think the person is on the list, I'll forward. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/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
Re: Kernel panic after successfull install
On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Janne Karjanlahti wrote: Hello! Didn't setup kernel/initrd in BootX to boot the system? (check the BootX folder on the CD) Stew Benedict Ok, it works now. Thank you. By the way, I think I found a little bug or something. When using graphical install and selecting packages to install I selected nothing, ie. I wanted very minimal installation. It then asked question about how minimal installation I wanted. There were three choises, and I selected the second. Can't remember exactly but I think it is recommended choice. Then it says Undefined subroutine install_any::set DefaultPackages called and installer falls back to the drive partitioning stage. I tried it twice and it failed. It works ok when I selected something to install. Thanks, the minimal install is fairly new, and I may be missing a portion of the relevant code from x86. I'll check it out. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/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
Help installation Mandrake PPC
Matériel utilisé : Macintosh 7500/100 série 7500/7600 WGS 8550 avec une carte processeur G3 Code de modèle : 68 RAM : 184 Mo Mémoire virtuelle : désactivée Partage de fichiers : désactivé Mémoire cache ext. niveau 2 : non installée Révision de Rom : $77D.28F2 Système : MacOs 8.6 version française universelle Disques Durs : Sur Bus Scsi 0 id 1Seagate 4.5 Go ; 2 partitions - 3,98 Go contient le système MacOs - 261 Mo Linux Boot format HFS id 6IBM 18 Go; 5 partitions - 2.92Go HFS - 3Go/ - swap - /home 5Go - /user Go id 3Lecteur CD Rom Matshita code produit CD-ROM CR- 8005 A version du gestionnaire 1.2.2 Moniteur PC avec adaptateur. Mon problème est le suivant; Après avoir télécharger et graver la version 8.2 de la Mandrake depuis un Cyber café équipé de PC. Le CD install n'est pas bootable sur ma machine. Y a t-il des manips. spécifique pour la gravure ? D'autre part si je tente l'installation via BootX il ne reconnait pas le controleur scsi et je ne sais lequel choisir. Nous avons tenté plusieurs, y compris ceux concernant les Macintosh? Pas de résultat le message est et reste Insmode failed. Il y a une carte réseau intégrée à la carte mère, mais même lorque'on cherche à faire l'installation via le réseau au cybercafé il ne trouve pas la carte réseau. Si vous avez des astuces, je tenterai volontier de les appliquer. Merci beaucoup de votre attention, à bientôt. Myriam
Re: Help installation Mandrake PPC
Attention, toutes les listes cooker sont en anglais uniquement, je terminerais uniquement en anglais, tu peux me mailer directment si cela te pose un problème. Be Warning: All cooker list are in english only, I finish my explanation in english only (with translation of query), you can mail me directly if it is a problem for you. Le Samedi 9 Mars 2002 18:46, vous avez écrit : Matériel utilisé : Macintosh 7500/100 série 7500/7600 WGS 8550 avec une carte processeur G3 Code de modèle : 68 RAM : 184 Mo Mémoire virtuelle : désactivée Partage de fichiers : désactivé All parameters of MacOs are skip during the installation, after the boot of linux, it has his proper specific config. Mémoire cache ext. niveau 2 : non installée Révision de Rom : $77D.28F2 Système : MacOs 8.6 version française universelle Disques Durs : Sur Bus Scsi 0 id 1Seagate 4.5 Go ; 2 partitions - 3,98 Go contient le système MacOs - 261 Mo Linux Boot format HFS id 6IBM 18 Go; 5 partitions - 2.92Go HFS - 3Go/ - swap - /home 5Go - /user Go id 3Lecteur CD Rom Matshita code produit CD-ROM CR- 8005 A version du gestionnaire 1.2.2 Moniteur PC avec adaptateur. Mon problème est le suivant; Après avoir télécharger et graver la version 8.2 de la Mandrake depuis un Cyber café équipé de PC. Le CD install n'est pas bootable sur ma machine. Y a t-il des manips. spécifique pour la gravure ? Question: After download from PC the iso's image and burning you can't boot. There no problem to do that and no specific action need, I haven't CD burner on my Mac (Titanium G4 with DVD) and I burned the images on CDRW on my other pentium laptop. It is not the burner that say if the CD will be bootable or not but only the iso files. D'autre part si je tente l'installation via BootX il ne reconnait pas le controleur scsi et je ne sais lequel choisir. Nous avons tenté plusieurs, y compris ceux concernant les Macintosh? Pas de résultat le message est et reste Insmode failed. Stew, the problem is the detection of scsi controler, do you know it on this machine ? Il y a une carte réseau intégrée à la carte mère, mais même lorque'on cherche à faire l'installation via le réseau au cybercafé il ne trouve pas la carte réseau. Same problem with ethernet card. Si vous avez des astuces, je tenterai volontier de les appliquer. Go on Apple menu - System information and look if you see the model of the ethernet and scsi card. Merci beaucoup de votre attention, à bientôt. It's nothing, you're welcome, but please in english the next time, the specialist of ppc is Stew, but he lives on USA and doesn't speak french, you understand he want help you, but he can't. Myriam -- Linux pour Mac !? Enfin le moyen de transformer une pomme en véritable ordinateur. JL. / | Olivier Thauvin - CNRS Service Aeronomie | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 01 64 47 43 60 à Verrières (lundi,mercredi et vendredi) | 01 44 27 47 59 à Jussieu (Mardi et Jeudi) | Fax:33 (0)1 69 20 29 99 | Service d'Aéronomie, Réduit de Verrieres | Route des Gatines - BP 3 | 91371 Verrieres le Buisson Cedex | France \==
Re: Help installation Mandrake PPC
On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Olivier Thauvin wrote: Attention, toutes les listes cooker sont en anglais uniquement, je terminerais uniquement en anglais, tu peux me mailer directment si cela te pose un problème. Be Warning: All cooker list are in english only, I finish my explanation in english only (with translation of query), you can mail me directly if it is a problem for you. Le Samedi 9 Mars 2002 18:46, vous avez écrit : Matériel utilisé : Macintosh 7500/100 série 7500/7600 WGS 8550 avec une carte processeur G3 Code de modèle : 68 RAM : 184 Mo Mémoire virtuelle : désactivée Partage de fichiers : désactivé All parameters of MacOs are skip during the installation, after the boot of linux, it has his proper specific config. Mémoire cache ext. niveau 2 : non installée Révision de Rom : $77D.28F2 Système : MacOs 8.6 version française universelle Disques Durs : Sur Bus Scsi 0 id 1Seagate 4.5 Go ; 2 partitions - 3,98 Go contient le système MacOs - 261 Mo Linux Boot format HFS id 6IBM 18 Go; 5 partitions - 2.92Go HFS - 3Go/ - swap - /home 5Go - /user Go id 3Lecteur CD Rom Matshita code produit CD-ROM CR- 8005 A version du gestionnaire 1.2.2 Moniteur PC avec adaptateur. Mon problème est le suivant; Après avoir télécharger et graver la version 8.2 de la Mandrake depuis un Cyber café équipé de PC. Le CD install n'est pas bootable sur ma machine. Y a t-il des manips. spécifique pour la gravure ? Question: After download from PC the iso's image and burning you can't boot. There no problem to do that and no specific action need, I haven't CD burner on my Mac (Titanium G4 with DVD) and I burned the images on CDRW on my other pentium laptop. It is not the burner that say if the CD will be bootable or not but only the iso files. D'autre part si je tente l'installation via BootX il ne reconnait pas le controleur scsi et je ne sais lequel choisir. Nous avons tenté plusieurs, y compris ceux concernant les Macintosh? Pas de résultat le message est et reste Insmode failed. Stew, the problem is the detection of scsi controler, do you know it on this machine ? If it's like the 7600, mesh is SCSI controller. Possibly also mac53c94. Il y a une carte réseau intégrée à la carte mère, mais même lorque'on cherche à faire l'installation via le réseau au cybercafé il ne trouve pas la carte réseau. Same problem with ethernet card. mace on 7600 - 7500 same? Si vous avez des astuces, je tenterai volontier de les appliquer. Go on Apple menu - System information and look if you see the model of the ethernet and scsi card. Merci beaucoup de votre attention, à bientôt. It's nothing, you're welcome, but please in english the next time, the specialist of ppc is Stew, but he lives on USA and doesn't speak french, you understand he want help you, but he can't. Thanks for the translation, Olivier! Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/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
Re: R: R: MDK8 installation on an RS/6000?
Roger Cassatella wrote: As I wrote on my first message, I know what to install, but I don't know how to start the installation procedure without boot from the 1st CD. Well, one way to start is to build a zImage kernel with all.rdz-2.4.13-12mdkBOOT as an initrd. Last time I did this with the 32-bit ppc code you'd drop this into arch/ppc/boot/prep as ramdisk.image.gz and then make zImage.initrd. I did the initial port of Linux to the 43p/140 but I did it as chrp so it fit rather well with Mandrake. But paulus decided to redo it as prep (the hardware defaults to a prep memory map even though it does have OpenFirmware). So this will make it into a strange animal. If you grab the zImage.initrd from arch/ppc/boot/prep/zImage.initrd you might be able to boot it into the Mandrake installer. Stew might be able to build this for you (Stew?). Once you get this zImage you can boot it from the open firmware prompt. Hit F8 as the machine boots (after the keyboard icon appears during the self-test). You'll drop to a 0 prompt. Now type: 0 boot cdrom:,zImage rw root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=36000 text assuming the zImage is at the top of a cdrom (standard iso9660 format -- note that IBM calls the device cdrom while the mac uses cd). The rest of the args are stolen from Stew's yaboot.conf. You might have to use root=/dev/ram3 -- dunno. Stew might be able to test this technique on a mac with a chrp zImage with initrd to make sure the args are right. Unfortunately, yaboot won't work. This isn't a big deal, other than it is very nice for booting vmlinux's and add initrd's at runtime, not to mention selecting alternative kernels. Last I tried this I got stuck in fdisk, but Stew got that fixed. But at that point I lost access to my 140 :(. Hope this helps a little. Once you get through an install it should work provided you can find a kernel that will boot ok on the 140. Make sure you have a supported video adapter, also, and put it in either slot 1 or 2. The best video adapter for the 140 was the GXT120P (a 2MB Matrox mystique). It may not be worth doing this unless someone is already trying to get Mandrake to work on other prep hardware. -todd BTW, a hack approach would be to install on a mac, tar the entire contents of the drive and drop it into an fdisk partitioned scsi drive. Move that drive to the 140 and boot it up. Scary, but you might be able to see it run :).
Re: R: R: MDK8 installation on an RS/6000?
On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Todd Inglett wrote: Roger Cassatella wrote: As I wrote on my first message, I know what to install, but I don't know how to start the installation procedure without boot from the 1st CD. Well, one way to start is to build a zImage kernel with all.rdz-2.4.13-12mdkBOOT as an initrd. Last time I did this with the 32-bit ppc code you'd drop this into arch/ppc/boot/prep as ramdisk.image.gz and then make zImage.initrd. I did the initial port of Linux to the 43p/140 but I did it as chrp so it fit rather well with Mandrake. But paulus decided to redo it as prep (the hardware defaults to a prep memory map even though it does have OpenFirmware). So this will make it into a strange animal. If you grab the zImage.initrd from arch/ppc/boot/prep/zImage.initrd you might be able to boot it into the Mandrake installer. Stew might be able to build this for you (Stew?). I'm still out here, but not able to get too involved in this at the moment, as I 'm a bit overwhelmed with other issues. I'm following the thread, and hopefully once the smoke clears on 8.2 I can get some time to look at this. If folks do come up with anything on their own and have specific patches they feel will help get the installer going, or build an appropriate kernel for these machines, send 'em my way. Once you get this zImage you can boot it from the open firmware prompt. Hit F8 as the machine boots (after the keyboard icon appears during the self-test). You'll drop to a 0 prompt. Now type: 0 boot cdrom:,zImage rw root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=36000 text assuming the zImage is at the top of a cdrom (standard iso9660 format -- note that IBM calls the device cdrom while the mac uses cd). The rest of the args are stolen from Stew's yaboot.conf. You might have to use root=/dev/ram3 -- dunno. Stew might be able to test this technique on a mac with a chrp zImage with initrd to make sure the args are right. Unfortunately, yaboot won't work. This isn't a big deal, other than it is very nice for booting vmlinux's and add initrd's at runtime, not to mention selecting alternative kernels. Last I tried this I got stuck in fdisk, but Stew got that fixed. But at that point I lost access to my 140 :(. Hope this helps a little. Once you get through an install it should work provided you can find a kernel that will boot ok on the 140. Make sure you have a supported video adapter, also, and put it in either slot 1 or 2. The best video adapter for the 140 was the GXT120P (a 2MB Matrox mystique). It may not be worth doing this unless someone is already trying to get Mandrake to work on other prep hardware. -todd BTW, a hack approach would be to install on a mac, tar the entire contents of the drive and drop it into an fdisk partitioned scsi drive. Move that drive to the 140 and boot it up. Scary, but you might be able to see it run :). Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/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
Re: R: MDK8 installation on an RS/6000?
BTW, is there any chance that Mandrake will install over a serial console? This could be useful for servers where you typically don't bother installing a display adapter. I was just looking for the source for /sbin/init in the ramdisk to see what it does and couldn't find it anywhere -todd
Re: MDK8 installation on an RS/6000?
Stew Benedict wrote: On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Tirs Abril wrote: Hi everybody! After almost six months working in a project abroad, I am back home and I'm continuing what I left, namely the installation of Mandrake Linux 8.0 PPC on an IBM RS/6000 43P-150. My question is very simple: Where do I begin? I have the two CDs, and none of them boot. I am afraid maybe they are intended for a MacIntosh BIOS and I have been looking for a bootable floppy image or something similar, but I couldn't find it. Can somebody put me on track? Is there anybody out there who has installed Mandrake PPC on an RS/6000 and wants to share experiences? We did have someone on the list who was working their way through this, and I made some diskdrake changes to accomodate those machines, but they dropped out so the project never finished, as I don't have hardware here. They had rolled their own kernel/bootdisk to get the install kicked off. That would be me :). The 43P-150 should be the easy one to get going. The only thing I see wrong is with yaboot. You will need a yaboot modified for the IBM machines(*) and paths in yaboot.conf must refer to cdrom instead of cd. A better approach to start with an IBM box would be to make a zImage.initrd.chrp-rs6k (containing all.rdz-2.4.13-12mdkBOOT). The 43P-150 boots as chrp. Hit F8 on boot to get to the open firmware prompt. -todd (*) yaboot must have a note that declares that it runs in real mode which is how IBM OpenFirmware runs (as opposed to Macs which run in virtual mode). The trouble is that if you use a mac yaboot on an IBM box or vice-versa you can really screw up the firmware (pulling the cmos battery fixes it). So be very careful with yaboot! Likewise, use care to boot zImage.initrd.chrp-rs6k (it is ok to rename it of course), and *do not* try to boot this zImage on a mac. There is a bit of a catch-22 here. If you do get this all to work it might be worth putting the chrp-rs6k version of yaboot (or zImage) on the 2nd CD and tell everyone to boot the first cd on a mac and the second cd on an IBM machine. But I think that's still a long way off... :(
Re: Help installation Mandrake PPC
Myriam wrote: Matériel utilisé : Macintosh 7500/100 série 7500/7600 WGS 8550 avec une carte processeur G3 Code de modèle : 68 RAM : 184 Mo Mémoire virtuelle : désactivée Partage de fichiers : désactivé Mémoire cache ext. niveau 2 : non installée Révision de Rom : $77D.28F2 Système : MacOs 8.6 version française universelle Disques Durs : Sur Bus Scsi 0 id 1Seagate 4.5 Go ; 2 partitions - 3,98 Go contient le système MacOs - 261 Mo Linux Boot format HFS id 6IBM 18 Go; 5 partitions - 2.92Go HFS - 3Go/ - swap - /home 5Go - /user Go id 3Lecteur CD Rom Matshita code produit CD-ROM CR- 8005 A version du gestionnaire 1.2.2 Moniteur PC avec adaptateur. Mon problème est le suivant; Après avoir télécharger et graver la version 8.2 de la Mandrake depuis un Cyber café équipé de PC. Le CD install n'est pas bootable sur ma machine. Y a t-il des manips. spécifique pour la gravure ? oui l'explication provient de iso joliet RR. dans ce cas, il faut sous linux faire un mkfisofs -r (avec google.com recherche graver mac iso les musiciens ont le meme soucis) D'autre part si je tente l'installation via BootX il ne reconnait pas le controleur scsi et je ne sais lequel choisir. Quel carte scsi utilise tu ? Si elle n'est pas reconnu et gerer, aucun des periperiques ne montent... Nous avons tenté plusieurs, y compris ceux concernant les Macintosh? Pas de résultat le message est et reste Insmode failed. Il y a une carte réseau intégrée à la carte mère, mais même lorque'on cherche à faire l'installation via le réseau au cybercafé il ne trouve pas la carte réseau. Je ne sais plus si la configuration reseau marche. Si vous avez des astuces, je tenterai volontier de les appliquer. Merci beaucoup de votre attention, à bientôt. Myriam
Re: Help installation Mandrake PPC
Why I translate if all answer in French. Agh, cooker is only in english. And at time, the expert don't speak french (Stew). It is a good idea to answer but if the expert, who have a full access to source code, can't understand you, what help can you have ? Le Samedi 9 Mars 2002 22:47, vous avez écrit : Myriam wrote: Matériel utilisé : Macintosh 7500/100 série 7500/7600 WGS 8550 avec une carte processeur G3 Code de modèle : 68 RAM : 184 Mo Mémoire virtuelle : désactivée Partage de fichiers : désactivé Mémoire cache ext. niveau 2 : non installée Révision de Rom : $77D.28F2 Système : MacOs 8.6 version française universelle Disques Durs : Sur Bus Scsi 0 id 1Seagate 4.5 Go ; 2 partitions - 3,98 Go contient le système MacOs - 261 Mo Linux Boot format HFS id 6IBM 18 Go; 5 partitions - 2.92Go HFS - 3Go/ - swap - /home 5Go - /user Go id 3Lecteur CD Rom Matshita code produit CD-ROM CR- 8005 A version du gestionnaire 1.2.2 Moniteur PC avec adaptateur. Mon problème est le suivant; Après avoir télécharger et graver la version 8.2 de la Mandrake depuis un Cyber café équipé de PC. Le CD install n'est pas bootable sur ma machine. Y a t-il des manips. spécifique pour la gravure ? oui l'explication provient de iso joliet RR. dans ce cas, il faut sous linux faire un mkfisofs -r (avec google.com recherche graver mac iso les musiciens ont le meme soucis) Nop none is good, for booting on mac from CD, the iso image must be in HFS and the bootloader had a special attribut. But I think she doesn't download the source tree, but the Beta1 iso's image and none operations is need to do a bootable CD for Mac. All is done. D'autre part si je tente l'installation via BootX il ne reconnait pas le controleur scsi et je ne sais lequel choisir. Quel carte scsi utilise tu ? Si elle n'est pas reconnu et gerer, aucun des periperiques ne montent... Nous avons tenté plusieurs, y compris ceux concernant les Macintosh? Pas de résultat le message est et reste Insmode failed. Il y a une carte réseau intégrée à la carte mère, mais même lorque'on cherche à faire l'installation via le réseau au cybercafé il ne trouve pas la carte réseau. Je ne sais plus si la configuration reseau marche. The network install work, but not properly for the moment, there are too mismatch between hdlist and exists file. I don't why ? And drakx works very well for x86, nobody want break it. Si vous avez des astuces, je tenterai volontier de les appliquer. Merci beaucoup de votre attention, à bientôt. Myriam -- Linux pour Mac !? Enfin le moyen de transformer une pomme en véritable ordinateur. JL. / | Olivier Thauvin - CNRS Service Aeronomie | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 01 64 47 43 60 à Verrières (lundi,mercredi et vendredi) | 01 44 27 47 59 à Jussieu (Mardi et Jeudi) | Fax:33 (0)1 69 20 29 99 | Service d'Aéronomie, Réduit de Verrieres | Route des Gatines - BP 3 | 91371 Verrieres le Buisson Cedex | France \==
result of G4 install
i have make install : some errors appears with rpm -Va - a lot of lib isn't install and should be. i am interrest by scientific software: -scilab -ddd (with openmotif) -gcc 3.0.4 with altivec (make a extra directorie. not offical ) Best regard E.COIN
Re: Help installation Mandrake PPC
Le Dimanche 10 Mars 2002 00:53, Ben Reser a écrit : On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 11:10:42PM +0100, Olivier Thauvin wrote: The network install work, but not properly for the moment, there are too mismatch between hdlist and exists file. I don't why ? And drakx works very well for x86, nobody want break it. That's because Stew doesn't have full access to update the repository. He can upload rpms but not update any of the installer files. Which frankly is stupid. The only time hdlist etc... gets updated is when someone else at Mandrake does it. The last time it happened nobody even knew who did it. I'm guessing someone in France decided to play with cooker-ppc and redid it so they could do a network install. I guess I'm frustrated with a number of things about Mandrake and ppc. And none of them having anything to do with Stew. He's doing a great job considering. However, if Mandrake really wants to do PPC they really need to give Stew the resources to do it. That means a new build machine in Paris (the previous one is dead) and access to update the ppc trees as he sees fit. /rant I know David Baudens is a ppc developer in Paris, but I really don't understand policy with other arch than x86 ! One of my question is why do not make ppc distro in the same time with x86 with the same drakx and same package ? If someone of mandrakesoft can answer me, I'm very interest ! -- Linux pour Mac !? Enfin le moyen de transformer une pomme en véritable ordinateur. JL. / | Olivier Thauvin - CNRS Service Aeronomie | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 01 64 47 43 60 à Verrières (lundi,mercredi et vendredi) | 01 44 27 47 59 à Jussieu (Mardi et Jeudi) | Fax:33 (0)1 69 20 29 99 | Service d'Aéronomie, Réduit de Verrieres | Route des Gatines - BP 3 | 91371 Verrieres le Buisson Cedex | France \==
Re: Help installation Mandrake PPC
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 02:35:12AM +0100, Olivier Thauvin wrote: I know David Baudens is a ppc developer in Paris, but I really don't understand policy with other arch than x86 ! One of my question is why do not make ppc distro in the same time with x86 with the same drakx and same package ? If someone of mandrakesoft can answer me, I'm very interest ! I'm not with Mandrake but I can answer the question. a) It is the same drakx b) It is the same packages though some are not included on the cds becuase x86 is 3 cds and ppc is only 2. The reason it isn't released at the same time and with the same number of cds is simply demand. There is less demand for a ppc distribution and as a result Mandrake has allocated less resources to it. There are quite a few developers who only work on x86. No one is dedicated to ppc. Stew even does work on x86. Also there are less testers and experience with the ppc platform. That means it takes longer to test it and get it out. -- Ben Reser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ben.reser.org What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Ghandi
Re: result of G4 install
On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, coin eric wrote: i have make install : some errors appears with rpm -Va such as? - a lot of lib isn't install and should be. known problem with beta1 i am interrest by scientific software: -scilab -ddd (with openmotif) In contrib. I was building these, but have had to focus on main. Perhaps they can be built once main stabilizes. You can always build from source. -gcc 3.0.4 with altivec gcc3 rarely builds successfully on PPC - I haven't worried too much about it, but would to look at using it eventually Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/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
Re: your mail
Well, perhaps I was a bit tired when I read the config file ;-) Can you point me to some details on this kernel driver issue? I'd like to get it fixed somehow. Regards /Stig It really is using vga? fbdev gets setup on my 7600. There's a vga entry in the config, but it normally doesn't get used. There were reports of similar lockups leaving X sometime back with ati, which ended up being a kernel driver issue. 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
Re: PB t get CD boot from mac 9.1 (fwd)
Stew Benedict wrote: Anyone want to help? I don't use MacOS much. Stew Benedict Full Instructions: http://homepage.mac.com/wollyworld/.cv/wollyworld/Public/v1_burn_iso_ppc.htm-link.htm (This is for LinuxPPC but the burning instructions are the same.)
