xserve install help
Hi there, I am about to remove OSX server from an Xserve and install debian as debian brings me joy and love and to date OSX server has been nothing but pain and frustration. After reading all the info I can find and trawling the net it appears that the woody ppc iso I downloaded is probably not going to boot the xserve. Does anyone know where I might find an iso that will boot the xserve and get me into the debian installer? (unofficial is fine!) Also if anyone knows, does kernel 2.2x support the xserve or will I need 2.4x? And one final question, my main machine is i386 based debian testing/unstable is it possible to create custom ppc kernel and boot cd from this machine? As always thanks in advance to those who continue to make debian the greatest distribution by helping their fellow debian users ;-) -- Rolf Schatzmann MacTherapy Australia Pty Ltd Mobile - 0410 577664
Re: Oldworld-Netbooting-Help
You can boot almost any mac that will run OS9.1 and has open firmware using a linux (or any *nix) box with these instructions. http://www.gwc.org.uk/~ali/nb/ Rolf Schatzmann Wireless Network Manager Eftel Radio Trading as Radiowan Office: 08 9386 Fax: 08 93868200 Mob: 0409 577 664 http://www.eftelradiowan.com/ Radiowan - Biggest Pipes, lowest Prices. Get a 128K Internet Connection with burst to 256K for just $99 per Month! Don't get left behind waiting for ADSL get a Faster WDSL connection Now! Link multiple Metro or Regional sites with our VPN connections. From: Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 01:07:29 -0900 To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Oldworld-Netbooting-Help Resent-From: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Resent-Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:11:32 +0800 On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 12:03:07AM -0500, C. Setlow wrote: Hello. I am trying to get my PowerMac 5500/225 to netboot using BootP, TFTP, and a kernel image, but I do not know how. Any help would be appreciated. I am also trying to get my Beige G3 300 to netboot, and it fails after loading the kernel image. i am not sure that these machines will netboot, its a miricle oldworld OF boots at all. what exactly is happening when you kernel image fails? error messages are useful. my netboot mini-howto might be helpful, buts its biased towards newworlds. i don't know much about netbooting on oldworlds, its not officially supported by apple and all i have heard is that some of the more recent oldworld OF implementations have some half assed netboot abilities. http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc or http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
.bin
Does anyone know how to open a .bin file in linux? I donwloaded the bitkeeper software but its encoded as a .bin, I tried using binhex (from macutils) but that says its not a Macbinary file. Rolf Schatzmann Wireless Network Manager Eftel Radio Trading as Radiowan Office: 08 9386 Fax: 08 93868200 Mob: 0410 577 664 Radiowan - Biggest Pipes, lowest Prices. Get a 128K Internet Connection with burst to 256K for just $99 per Month! Don't get left behind waiting for ADSL get a Faster WDSL connection Now! Link multiple Metro or Regional sites with our VPN connections.
Re: .bin
Sorry for the worlds most stupid question. .bin is obviously a binary ie. an executable file. Doh. Rolf Schatzmann Wireless Network Manager Eftel Radio Trading as Radiowan Office: 08 9386 Fax: 08 93868200 Mob: 0410 577 664 Radiowan - Biggest Pipes, lowest Prices. Get a 128K Internet Connection with burst to 256K for just $99 per Month! Don't get left behind waiting for ADSL get a Faster WDSL connection Now! Link multiple Metro or Regional sites with our VPN connections. From: Rolf Schatzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 10:50:36 +0800 To: debianppc list debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: .bin Resent-From: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Resent-Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 10:50:40 +0800 Does anyone know how to open a .bin file in linux? I donwloaded the bitkeeper software but its encoded as a .bin, I tried using binhex (from macutils) but that says its not a Macbinary file. Rolf Schatzmann Wireless Network Manager Eftel Radio Trading as Radiowan Office: 08 9386 Fax: 08 93868200 Mob: 0410 577 664 Radiowan - Biggest Pipes, lowest Prices. Get a 128K Internet Connection with burst to 256K for just $99 per Month! Don't get left behind waiting for ADSL get a Faster WDSL connection Now! Link multiple Metro or Regional sites with our VPN connections. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: error compiling official kernel 2.4.1
Yeah I got the same thing, I tried applying the Alan Cox patch to the vanilla source and it got further but dies with load of undefined references to mac_hid_stuff. Does anyone know if there is an already patched and working source that will compile cleanly for PPC out there somewhere? Rolf Schatzmann Wireless Network Manager Eftel Radio Trading as Radiowan Office: 08 9386 Fax: 08 93868200 Mob: 0410 577 664 Radiowan - Biggest Pipes, lowest Prices. Get a 128K Internet Connection with burst to 256K for just $99 per Month! Don't get left behind waiting for ADSL get a Faster WDSL connection Now! Link multiple Metro or Regional sites with our VPN connections. From: Sergio Brandano [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 14:23:04 + To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: error compiling official kernel 2.4.1 Resent-From: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Resent-Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 22:23:36 +0800 More info are available on request. Sergio ... make all_targets make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/video' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -D__powerpc__ -fsigned-char -msoft-float -pipe -ffixed-r2 -Wno-uninitialized -mmultiple -mstring-c -o chipsfb.o chipsfb.c chipsfb.c: In function `chips_set_bitdepth': chipsfb.c:392: `display_info' undeclared (first use in this function) chipsfb.c:392: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once chipsfb.c:392: for each function it appears in.) chipsfb.c: In function `chips_of_init': chipsfb.c:671: warning: implicit declaration of function `pci_device_loc' chipsfb.c:675: warning: implicit declaration of function `pci_io_base' make[3]: *** [chipsfb.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/video' make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/video' make[1]: *** [_subdir_video] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers' make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2 root -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install on PowerMac 7500
From: Sven LUTHER [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:51:42 +0100 To: David S. Bach [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Install on PowerMac 7500 Resent-From: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Resent-Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 00:54:25 +0800 On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 07:55:24AM -0800, David S. Bach wrote: I have several questions about installing on a PowerMac 7500. Before I get deeply into something that won't work, I'd like to assess my chances of getting a working, dual-boot Mac/Linux system. No problem, bootx works really well provided that you don't have later than OS8.6 on the mac partition that you are running bootx from, it gets flaky after OS9 and breaks completely after OS9.0.4. Although I haven't tried it with 9.1 I would assume that its still broken. On machines where i want to run dual boot but need a current system I make a small 50mb hfs partition and put a minimal install of os8 on it with bootx in addition to your normal mac partition. I have found quik to be quite difficult to use and it only seems to work occasionally on my 8500. use boot x. Questions: 1. How do I refer to a hard drive on the external bus? (there is an internal bus and an external one). I take it that my internal boot drive is /dev/sda1. What about SCSI ID 0 on the external bus? /dev/sda10? I suppose that you are speaking about when linux is already running, then you can look at /proc/partitions to see which partitions are available. That said, the scsi disk are devices /dev/sd##, where the first # denotes the disk, starting from a, and independent on the bus, i think, and the second # denotes the partition you are accesing, so /dev/sda1 is the first partition on your first disk, and /dev/sda10 is the tenth partition on your first disk, if you have only one disk on the internal bus, then /dev/sdb would be the first disk on the external bus. er 2 luns actually an internal and an external the internal one is the faster one. mmm, that said, your box has only one scsi chain, that has one internal connector and one external connector, and one controller, most probably with id 7. Then linux will simply number them following incrementing ids. Anyway, this will appear during the boot message. note 1 : you can access to a whole disk with /dev/sda for example, nice for doing backups or such, or for using hdparm or partitioning disks. note 2 : i think the bootx/OF/whatever naming scheme for disks is different. 2. The PM7500 has a MaxPower G3 300 processor card. Is it necessary to tell BootX anything about this? Don't think so, it should be transparent ... er actually, if you install the g3 cache profiler extension from powerlogix then there is an option in boot x to automatically set the cache, you want to do this otherwise you run without a backside cache and that's slow... 3. The PM7500 has a PCI video card, iX3d Ultimate Res. Can this work with Debian Linux? (The resolution is set at 1024 X 768 @ 75.9 Hz.) There are two things here, the console system and X. The console needs a working framebuffer device, i think with most macs, you can safely use the offb, but there may be a specific fbdev for your hardware. Then there is X. In most case, you can use the 3.3 XF68_FBDev server or if using XF4.0.2, you have to specify the fbdev driver, and things will work, but maybe slowly. The X acceleration is dependent of the actual graphic chip being used. 4. Is it safe to rush into installing BootX on the MacOS boot drive and set up an external 1Gig drive entirely for Linux? like before bootx=good bootx + 8.6 = good bootx + os9 = maybe bootx + os9.1 or later = bad. Don't know, my guess would be that you can install bootx or whatever on a small partition of the second disk, but then i never installed linux on a mac, my ppc box being an apus amiga. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCI Video Cards
I have an idea. If you run the app xviddetect on a mac linux box it shows you the pci devices it can see. It can see any pci devices and they don't have to be made for mac, I know this because I have 2 additional nics in my 8500, one generic Realtek 8029 and a Digital Decchip 21142. Neither of these works under mac os, they both work fine under linux. As I understand it now (having just got accelerated X to work on a Blue White G3) its actually X not the kernel that needs to have a driver to support a pci video card to get accelerated video in X. So I'm thinking why not just throw any non-mac PCI video card that has drivers in X into the box and try to get X to use it for accelerated video? In theory i should be able to have 2 displays this way, one for accelerated X and the original one. Having got familiar with XF86config it looks as though you can specify any video card and monitor in there. Can someone who knows tell me whether this might work and if so what PC PCI video card i should get (ie. what works well on an i386 box)? Rolf Schatzmann Director of Operations Eftel Radio Trading as Radiowan Office: 08 9386 Fax: 08 93868200 Mob: 0410 577 664 Radiowan - Biggest Pipes, lowest Prices. Get a 128K Internet Connection with burst to 384K for a fraction of the cost of ISDN. Link multiple Metro or Regional sites with our VPN connections. From: Stewart Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 15:53:07 +1100 To: Rolf Schatzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED], debianppc list debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: PCI Video Cards I have a Voodoo 3 and it only works if i tick the no video driver box in BootX. The linux kernel drivers are (were at 2.4test11 at least) incompatible with a Voodoo3 flashed with the Mac ROM image (off 3dfx's site). however, YMMV nVidia is roumoured to be announcing Mac Cards soon (and these may well work with Linux on PPC - but we may have to wait (or try it if you can)). report your findings back - i may be in the market for a good 3d/2d card that will work properly under linux too on 2/1/01 12:34 PM, Rolf Schatzmann at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone clarify this for me. If I am running debian on a Blue and White can I use any PCI video card that is supported by the kernel including the ones designed for PC's or is there still a limitation somewhere in the mac hardware? Rolf Schatzmann Director of Operations Eftel Radio Trading as Radiowan Office: 08 9386 Fax: 08 93868200 Mob: 0410 577 664 Radiowan - Biggest Pipes, lowest Prices. Get a 128K Internet Connection with burst to 384K for a fraction of the cost of ISDN. Link multiple Metro or Regional sites with our VPN connections. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
PCI Video Cards
Can someone clarify this for me. If I am running debian on a Blue and White can I use any PCI video card that is supported by the kernel including the ones designed for PC's or is there still a limitation somewhere in the mac hardware? Rolf Schatzmann Director of Operations Eftel Radio Trading as Radiowan Office: 08 9386 Fax: 08 93868200 Mob: 0410 577 664 Radiowan - Biggest Pipes, lowest Prices. Get a 128K Internet Connection with burst to 384K for a fraction of the cost of ISDN. Link multiple Metro or Regional sites with our VPN connections.
printing help
I am trying to set up an epson stylus 800 printer on a G3 upgraded 8500 running woody on 2.4. I had a look through the mailing list and found info on how to set up the printer using printtool. I have followed these instructions but i get an error when i try to print. The error is lpr:connect:No such file or directory, jobs queued but cannot start daemon. I have tried using /dev/ttyS0 S1 and /dev/cua0 cua1 but no luck. PS. the page i found is at http://members.nbci.com/MacPlusG3/linux/epsonprinters.html As always any help really appreciated. Rolf Schatzmann Director of Operations Eftel Radio Trading as Radiowan Office: 08 9386 Fax: 08 93868200 Mob: 0410 577 664 Radiowan - Biggest Pipes, lowest Prices. Get a 128K Internet Connection with burst to 384K for a fraction of the cost of ISDN. Link multiple Metro or Regional sites with our VPN connections.
