Re: 8.2 installer initrd fails on supermac
>Tried both of these as kernel arguments in BootX: > >devfs=mount root=/dev/sdb7 >devfs=nomount root=/dev/sdb7 > >Both gave me the same results as before. > >Am I supposed to be using the initrd and kernel that are in the BootX >directory, or the ones that are in the 'boot' directory on the CD? >Or does it matter? I have been using the ones from the BootX directory, >with the exception that I'm using the initrd downloaded from your >site. > >Also, are these the same kernel/initrd that I will use after installation, >or is there another set? Bah, forget it... I just discovered how to make the Mandrake Installer AppleScript on the CD work (by dropping it on stuffit expander, as noted in the lists...) This seems to have magically made things work. Thanks anyway. :-) Peter
Re: 8.2 installer initrd fails on supermac
At Saturday, 25 May 2002, you wrote: >Be sure to specify devfs=mount or devfs=nomount in your kernel arguments, >along with root=/dev/sdaX (X=/) Tried both of these as kernel arguments in BootX: devfs=mount root=/dev/sdb7 devfs=nomount root=/dev/sdb7 Both gave me the same results as before. Am I supposed to be using the initrd and kernel that are in the BootX directory, or the ones that are in the 'boot' directory on the CD? Or does it matter? I have been using the ones from the BootX directory, with the exception that I'm using the initrd downloaded from your site. Also, are these the same kernel/initrd that I will use after installation, or is there another set? Peter Peter R. Wood (Lists) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/ Peter R. Wood (Lists) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/
8.2 installer initrd fails on supermac
Howdy, I'm trying to do a fresh install of mdk 8.2 ppc (final) on my SuperMac J700. Now I've had linux working on here for many years, and I've been using BootX to boot up and do installs, etc. However, with the initrd and kernel that are supplied on the 8.2 cd, I get an error when I try to boot the installer. This is after the kernel has loaded, and the initrd has just been uncompressed: "Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel" Now, I looked in the list archives, and found someone who had the same problem. For him, on his 7300, the answer was to download Stew's newer initrd. But this was with 8.2b2, so I figured it was fixed in the final version. In any case, I downloaded Stew's initrd and tried it, with the same results. Any suggestions? SuperMac J700 w/Sonnet G3/400 upgrade. Internal SCSI is MESH, both hard drives and the cdrom are on the internal bus. Peter Peter R. Wood (Lists) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/
Re: mozilla segfault + april 15 packages
> that might cause mozilla to segfault on startup? Nothing in my environment > has changed other than these packages from April 15. Update, I have also tried removing the new gdk packages and replacing them with the old versions: gdk-pixbuf-loaders-0.16.0-1mdk libgdk-pixbuf-gnomecanvas1-0.16.0-1mdk libgdk-pixbuf2-0.16.0-1mdk libgdk-pixbuf-xlib2-0.16.0-1mdk This also did not alleviate the problem... Peter -- Peter R. Wood (Lists) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/
mozilla segfault + april 15 packages
I just pulled in some updates from a cooker-ppc mirror. They were dated April 15, and included slightly newer versions of mozilla, libnspr4, libnss, etc. After installing all of these updated packages, Mozilla segfaults on launch. I have tried removing the new mozilla and libnspr4 packages, and replacing them with the ones from 8.2b2, but the segfault seems to have stuck. Any ideas on what has changed in these new packages that might cause mozilla to segfault on startup? Nothing in my environment has changed other than these packages from April 15. Thanks, Peter -- Peter R. Wood (Lists) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/
Re: 8.2 PPC Beta2 out...
Ah, I was just able to get on ftp.orst.edu , downloading both ISO's at once, around 50 KB/s each over cable modem. Maybe tomorrow I'll be able to burn the ISO's. :-) Peter - Original Message - From: "John C. Tull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 12:48 PM Subject: Re: 8.2 PPC Beta2 out... > I was able to get mine off of the Oregon State server with no problem. > Use an ftp program and login as anonymous with email password. Seems to > have more slots than purely anonymous ftp. From there to University of > Nevada, Reno, I was able to sustain a 500+ kbps transfer. Took about 30 > minutes for both images.
Re: 8.2 PPC Beta2 out...
Arrgh, and all the US servers overloaded. :-( > Le Mercredi 27 Mars 2002 17:28, vous avez écrit : > > just incase you don't go to mandrake.com every day, the new beta is out > > there.. > > mike
Re: trying to add cooker media to mandrake 8.0
OK, thanks. I'll try this. On a similar note, is there a place from which I can rsync the latest cooker packages? Peter
trying to add cooker media to mandrake 8.0
Hi all, I've got a Mandrake 8.0 ppc system which I'd like to upgrade to some of the packages in cooker-ppc. I'm trying to use the version of urpmi to add media, but it doesn't seem to like the hdlist files that are on the server: [root@wintermute root]# urpmi.addmedia cooker-ppc ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/mandrake/cooker/cooker/ppc/Mandrake/RPMS/ ../base/hdlist1.cz wget of [/] failed (maybe wget is missing?) no hdlist file found for medium "cooker-ppc" unable to update medium "cooker-ppc" I have checked the URL and it is valid, and the relative path to hdlist1.cz is correct. Also, wget is not missing. Any suggestions? Peter -- Peter R. Wood - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/
Re: Updating software via urpmi (WAS install report)
Ok, I have answered my own question again. Here is the command I used, this time building a successful media list: urpmi.addmedia --distrib ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/coo ker/ppc/Mandrake/ This automatically gets the hdlists, etc. Peter
Updating software via urpmi (WAS install report)
> Is there any text-based way to automagically pull in new packages from the > mirrors? I have somewhat answered my own question - I have found urpmi, and found out about urpmi.addmedia to let me add a source. But I'm not exactly sure what URL I need to put in. My guess is: urpmi.addmedia ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/coo ker/ppc/Mandrake/base/ with hdlist1.cz Does this look right? When I run it, I get some errors such as 'No such file 'descriptions''. And after the media is added, when I try to do 'urpmi evolution' it seems to try and download the dependencies, but in fact states that the files do not exist on the server. Does the problem perhaps lie in distro.ibiblio.org, or did I set up my media incorrectly? Peter
Re: [LONG] Full(er) install report on 8.2 beta
> Thanks for the report. > Stew Benedict Is there any text-based way to automagically pull in new packages from the mirrors? I have an ssh connection to my home box from work so I figured I might try updating some things. I can't pull in too much though, I only have 320 megs left on the hdd. :-( Maybe it's time to upgrade the Pismo hdd... I did get httpd up and running - I used rpmfind.net and downloaded libmm1-1.1.3-9mdk.ppc.rpm and also found that I needed libexpat1_95-1.95.2-2mdk.ppc.rpm. Peter
[LONG] Full(er) install report on 8.2 beta
Greetings Cookers, Here is the longer installation report I promised. This is not intended to try and solve my problems; rather, it is for reference in the list archives and for information to the developers. I have not made any attempts to fix the problems I encountered (obviously I will do this later), I just wanted to write an objective report of my installation and first run. Installation System: Apple PowerBook G3 2000 (Pismo) Stock Config: 400 MHz G3, 10 gig hdd, 24x cd/dvd-rom, ATI Rage Mobility 128 w/16 megs vram Non-Stock Config: 320 megs ram, Apple Airport card Peripherals (some tested, some not): Microsoft Intellimouse Optical (4 buttons + scroll wheel, USB) (tested) Dazzle USB CF card reader (somewhat tested) Nikon Coolpix 775 direct USB connect (not tested) Handspring Visor USB sync (not tested, but it will probably work fine) HP DeskJet 940c USB (somewhat tested) CanoScan N650U USB scanner (not tested, probably won't work as it uses a proprietary interface, not SANE) iPod in firewire disk mode (not tested) Installed via: CD-ROM [burned with Roxio EasyCD Creator 5 under Windows XP, from 8.2 beta ISO's] Install method: install-aty128fb Notes on install process: Booted up by inserting Cooker CD 1 and holding down 'c' key. Booted up into install-chooser screen just fine. Chose install-aty128fb option. Then, chose CD install option. Install app loaded from CD ok. Graphics and video looked good - no video card problems using the aty128fb installer. Went with expert installation. Setup of peripherals went ok, except that the mouse config does not seem to acknowledge the scrolling of my scroll wheel. It does acknowledge the clicking of the scroll wheel, but not the scrolling. [Note: once system was up and running, scroll wheel worked fine under X] The package installation went fine. I chose the packages I wanted and they installed without problems, it prompted me properly for the second CD when needed. I periodically switched to VT3 to check on the installer progress, and saw no problems there. In the post-install config, most things went ok. The only thing that I noticed, and this is not so much a bug but an annoyance, is that I can't seem to *not* configure existing network interfaces. What I mean is this: I have an Airport card as well as built-in GMAC ethernet. I don't use the GMAC ethernet at all; I only use the airport. Both of them are properly detected, but when I go to configure LAN interfaces, there is no option to simply *not* use the GMAC. So I configure it with a dummy IP address. I would rather have an option to omit this device from configuration. Video configuration went great. My display was detected just fine and I chose X 4.2.0. Configuration of yaboot/ybin within the installer was extremely easy and painless. It let me set up my triple boot the way I wanted it, and I have had to make no changed to my yaboot.conf after configuring in the installer. Rebooting the system was the 'biggest' problem - the boot device was not properly set to the bootstrap partition. Maybe ybin could do this somehow within the installer? Luckily, Ben Reser had advised me on how to fix this. (Boot with Apple+Option+O+F; Type: setenv boot-device hd:n,\\:tbxi Where n is the partition number your boot strap is on.) With his fix, my system is now properly set up to bring up the bootloader. Notes on system startup: Did not boot into the Aurora graphical boot monitor. I seem to recall that this was the default in Mandrake 8.0, but it just did the regular text boot here. Maybe this is intended. It seems that various libraries were not found, and there were some errors in files: usb-ohci not found cardmgr ./config-opts error on line 8 YP map server: execvp: no such file httpd-perl & httpd: couldn't find libmm.so.1 SMB & NMB: couldn't find libacl.so.1 Notes on graphical login: The background on the graphical login screen looked good, however the login box itself did not look good. The buttons looked like normal GDK platinum, but the background of the login box seemed to be nonexistent. Instead, it was the checkerboard-grey of the default X server background. The user icons were displayed on top of it, and there was black text that was barely visible due to the grey background. It looks like perhaps it tried to load a pixmap for the login box, but was unsuccessful? After logging in and out several times, I got various results: sometimes the login box background was dark blue, sometimes, black, sometimes the text was clear, sometimes there was a moire effect. Errm. For the moment I have switched to runlevel 3 as the boot default and am starting X manually. Notes on various window managers: GNOME: When attempting to start GNOME either manually or through the GUI login, it kicks back out with an error message to the effect that it can't find libgnomecanvaspixbuf.so.1. I couldn't test GNOME because of this. KDE: KDE started OK and performed as expected. WindowMaker: WindowMaker started OK and
8.2 beta installed on Pismo
Hi all, Just wanted to drop a quick note that I got Mandrake 8.2 beta installed via cd from ISO's. Things are working more or less. I will get more details when I have time to sit down and write up a detailed report. My system: PowerBook G3 "Firewire" aka Pismo. 400 MHz G3, 320 megs ram, 10 gig hdd, 24x cd/dvd drive, Rage Mobility 128 (aty128fb driver). I did get a working triple-boot setup thanks to Ben Reser's advice! (os 9, os x, mandrake linux) I am not new to Linux or Mandrake, and in fact I had run Mandrake 8.0 on this laptop for a while, but had been wanting to set up a triple-boot for a while. Using the 8.2 beta iso's was the perfect opportunity to try this, as well as help out the community. One thing I will say in this email is that it was quite a tight squeeze getting what I wanted installed. I only have a 1.4 gig partition dedicated to linux, and most of it was taken up during install. I didn't install any games, office apps, scientific apps, or development tools. I really wanted to get the dev tools on there, but they more than doubled the size of the install, and greatly exceeded my available disk space. There are a lot of things that don't seem to be working due to dependency issues, and I have a feeling that some of those would be resolved if I could get the dev libraries installed. There is also some general flakiness that I would expect from a beta. I'll give more detail when I get a chance. Were I still in college I would stay up all night to get this working, but there is that pesky work thing in the morning... ;-) Cheers, Peter
working triple-boot? please email
Greetings, If anyone has a working triple-boot set up on a NewWorld machine as follows, please email me *off-list* and let me know how you got it to work: MacOS X MacOS 9 Mandrake 8.x PPC I have successfully done OSX + OS9, and OS9 + Mandrake, but I can't seem to get all three to work together. This is on a Pismo PowerBook Thanks, Peter -- Peter R. Wood - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/
