Re: PowerBook G3 installation. Help needed.

[Tero Hanninen]

On Sat, 01 Jun 2002, Stew Benedict wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Quentin Mason wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > I recently received oldish G3 PowerBook 466Mhz, and since I've never been a
> > > Mac person at all I thought I'd give Mandrake 8.2 a go. However not being a
> > 
> > That machine is old-world and yaboot will NOT work [hence Mandrake-CD is
> > not bootable].  BootX is the only chance (well miboot or quik but they are
> 
> Something doesn't jive there.  If it's a 466MHz machine it should
> certainly be NewWorld.  The type -39 error has been documented.  Just drop
> the .sit file into DropStuff or unstuff it from the StuffIt menu.

Ah, the 466 Mhz info was from Mac OS9 system info, but as I started
digging into it (turned the machine around and looked at the sticker
next to the serial number in the bottom) it turns out it originally 
was a 266 Mhz machine.. My bad, sorry for the confusion, should have 
checked that before I started :-)

Anyways, I got it working with BootX after installing the latest
Stuffit, so now it's a happy little Mandrake.

Thanks for your help!

/T

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Re: PowerBook G3 installation. Help needed.

[Stew Benedict]

On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Quentin Mason wrote:

> 
> > I recently received oldish G3 PowerBook 466Mhz, and since I've never been a
> > Mac person at all I thought I'd give Mandrake 8.2 a go. However not being a
> 
> > I've also tried the BootX installation but unpacking
> > Mandrake_Linux_Install.sit  gave me "type -39 error"
> 
> That machine is old-world and yaboot will NOT work [hence Mandrake-CD is
> not bootable].  BootX is the only chance (well miboot or quik but they are
> not supported in Mandrake).  Just follow the instructions for typing in
> the arguments to BootX -- use the vmlinux-2.2 kernel,
> options->ramdisk->install-2.2-ramdisk etc.  There is a webpage + an older
> copy on the CD but I am short on details cos I am at a conference.
> 
> My Wallstreet II works fine this way.  In MacOS use apple profiler to 
> check which machine you have.  The bootX script that you tried requires 
> applescript to run -- check if that is installed -- it is on the MacOS CD.
> 

Something doesn't jive there.  If it's a 466MHz machine it should
certainly be NewWorld.  The type -39 error has been documented.  Just drop
the .sit file into DropStuff or unstuff it from the StuffIt menu.

Stew Benedict

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Re: PowerBook G3 installation. Help needed.

[Quentin Mason]

> I recently received oldish G3 PowerBook 466Mhz, and since I've never been a
> Mac person at all I thought I'd give Mandrake 8.2 a go. However not being a

> I've also tried the BootX installation but unpacking
> Mandrake_Linux_Install.sit  gave me "type -39 error"

That machine is old-world and yaboot will NOT work [hence Mandrake-CD is
not bootable].  BootX is the only chance (well miboot or quik but they are
not supported in Mandrake).  Just follow the instructions for typing in
the arguments to BootX -- use the vmlinux-2.2 kernel,
options->ramdisk->install-2.2-ramdisk etc.  There is a webpage + an older
copy on the CD but I am short on details cos I am at a conference.

My Wallstreet II works fine this way.  In MacOS use apple profiler to 
check which machine you have.  The bootX script that you tried requires 
applescript to run -- check if that is installed -- it is on the MacOS CD.

Q.

Re: PowerBook G3 installation. Help needed.

[Jeroen Diederen]

On 1/6/02 19:33, "Tero Hänninen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello list...
> 
> I recently received oldish G3 PowerBook 466Mhz, and since I've never been a
> Mac person at all I thought I'd give Mandrake 8.2 a go. However not being a
> Mac person also means this is my first Linux PPC installation..and I got in
> trouble before I even got started...
> 
> First round:
> Downloaded the iso images, and burned them on CDs. According to the
> installation guide pressing "C" should enable CD booting. It didn't on this
> machine.
> Cmd-Opt-O-F took me to firmware, but "boot cd:\\yaboot"
> didn't do any good, the screen just quickly blinked and then
> machine happily continued booting Mac OS 9
> 
> Second Round:
> Since the machine is not brand new I thought the CD drive might be faulty,
> so I set up network booting through TFTP.  Pressing "N" during boot didn't
> make the machine want to do anything else than boot to Mac OS, but "boot
> enet" in firmware prompt worked. I get:
> 
> 0 > boot enet file: 192.168.0.2,/boot/mac/yabootLoading ELF
> DEFAULT CATCH!, code=FFF00300 at  %SRR0: FF80AFD0 %SRR1: B070
> 
> After this I tried to boot the installation from HD (by copying files to the
> disk, and issuing boot commands from firmware) and in my desperation even
> from a floppy...but nothing worked.
> 
> I'm starting to wonder if I did something wrong while I was burning the CD's
> (used WinXP/Nero) and managed to corrupt things, but I'm really starting to
> run out of ideas.
> 
> Anyone else had similar problems or can explain that DEFAULT CATCH?
> I'd appreciate any help/hints/pointers.
> 
> I've also tried the BootX installation but unpacking
> Mandrake_Linux_Install.sit  gave me "type -39 error"
> 
> Thanks,
> Tero
> 
> 
> 
I would check the checksums, they are there for checking the quality of the
downloaded iso's. Under OSX, there is a nice program called md5app. You just
drag the iso into the window and it gives you the numbers, pretty easy...
( http://www.enigmarelle.com/sw/md5app/ )
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Best regards,

Jeroen Diederen
http://diederen.demon.nl

PowerBook G3 installation. Help needed.

[Tero Hänninen]

Hello list...

I recently received oldish G3 PowerBook 466Mhz, and since I've never been a
Mac person at all I thought I'd give Mandrake 8.2 a go. However not being a
Mac person also means this is my first Linux PPC installation..and I got in
trouble before I even got started...

First round:
Downloaded the iso images, and burned them on CDs. According to the
installation guide pressing "C" should enable CD booting. It didn't on this
machine.
Cmd-Opt-O-F took me to firmware, but "boot cd:\\yaboot"
didn't do any good, the screen just quickly blinked and then
machine happily continued booting Mac OS 9

Second Round:
Since the machine is not brand new I thought the CD drive might be faulty,
so I set up network booting through TFTP.  Pressing "N" during boot didn't
make the machine want to do anything else than boot to Mac OS, but "boot
enet" in firmware prompt worked. I get:

0 > boot enet file: 192.168.0.2,/boot/mac/yabootLoading ELF
DEFAULT CATCH!, code=FFF00300 at  %SRR0: FF80AFD0 %SRR1: B070

After this I tried to boot the installation from HD (by copying files to the
disk, and issuing boot commands from firmware) and in my desperation even
from a floppy...but nothing worked.

I'm starting to wonder if I did something wrong while I was burning the CD's
(used WinXP/Nero) and managed to corrupt things, but I'm really starting to
run out of ideas.

Anyone else had similar problems or can explain that DEFAULT CATCH?
I'd appreciate any help/hints/pointers.

I've also tried the BootX installation but unpacking
Mandrake_Linux_Install.sit  gave me "type -39 error"

Thanks,
Tero

Re: Appletalk printing on Laserwriter 320 - pap

[Jeroen Diederen]

On 1/6/02 07:22, "Michael J Flaherty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 5/31/02 3:29 PM, "Jeroen Diederen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> i there,
>> 
>> I already tried everything I could find on the internet to configure the
>> printcap file in /etc but I cannot print with the lpd to my Apple Laserwriter
>> 320 
> 
> Have you seen this page ?
> 
> 
> 
> MJF
> 
> 
Yes and also the biggest one:
http://www.giub.unibe.ch/~eugster/appleprint.html
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Best regards,

Jeroen Diederen
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