Re: [newbie] PPC Install
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 15:58, Mike yomcat Welsh wrote: I want to know how to partition my drive while retaining all my current data without losing anything. Auto allocate gives me an error about no RAM disk or something like that. I got 384MB RAM. About the single root partition, are you saying that I can run it off my Mac partition somehow? Last time, I partitioned the drive but lost all my info. The idea is NOT to use ONE partition. One partition is for the MacOS You have actually three partitions (if not more) So you're going to need a /boot partition and at least a / partition (aside from the partition where your MacOS lives) There's information about the PPC installation on the Mandrake site, and there used to be a few PPC users in here, but they're elsewhere now, or just playing invisible... -- Thu Jul 10 22:30:00 EST 2003 22:30:00 up 4 days, 2 min, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.08, 0.08 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * History repeats itself -- the first time as a tragi-comedy, the second time as bedroom farce. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] PPC Install
As far as partitioning goes, I imagine that the PCC linux has much the same needs as the PC version.. at the very least, you need to create one swap file.. about 2 times your ram works, but you can go less or more depending on how much ram you actually have.. and a root partition, unless you create other partitions, a single root partition can contain everything... is there not an auto allocate option in the PPC version?? If I didn't cover what you wanted, be more specific and I will try. You don't seem to have a specific question. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike yomcat Welsh Sent: Thursday, 10 July 2003 2:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] PPC Install I recently got the PPC version of Mandrake 9.1. When I get to the install, it is too confusing. I read the documentation, but they say nothing about the partitions I need to make and stuff. If somebody could explain it to me, I would be grateful. Thanks -- yomcat http://www.geocities.com/yomcat/untitled.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PPC Install
on 10/7/03 9:18 AM, Frankie at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as partitioning goes, I imagine that the PCC linux has much the same needs as the PC version.. at the very least, you need to create one swap file.. about 2 times your ram works, but you can go less or more depending on how much ram you actually have.. and a root partition, unless you create other partitions, a single root partition can contain everything... is there not an auto allocate option in the PPC version?? If I didn't cover what you wanted, be more specific and I will try. You don't seem to have a specific question. OKay. I want to know how to partition my drive while retaining all my current data without losing anything. Auto allocate gives me an error about no RAM disk or something like that. I got 384MB RAM. About the single root partition, are you saying that I can run it off my Mac partition somehow? Last time, I partitioned the drive but lost all my info. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PPC hda: driver not present
I have a stock BW 350mhz G3 with 400 something megs of ram. I am trying to install mandrake 9.1 ppc onto an 80 gig deskstar drive. I managed to install OS9 on one partition and left a big space for Mandrake to use. After OS9 was installed and I saw that it was working, I plopped in the 9.1 CD and re-booted with the C key held down. The install went without a hitch, I picked L for Linux at the yboot prompt but then a few seconds later things round to a halt. This is what it says. . . creating root device Mounting root filesystem without flags noatime ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide hda: driver not present mount: error 6 mounting ext 3 flags noatime well, retrying without the option flags ide-floppy driver 099.newide hda: driver not present snip Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init = option to kernel. I dug through the archives and saw that someone had a similar problem but solved it with something in his /BootX. I thought BootX was for OldWorld machines and I didn't have to worry about that. Could someone please help me get this worked out? Thanks in advance. - William Eggington -- http://www.eggington.net - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PPC installation problems with GeForce Video Card
Does anyone have advice on installing Mandrake 8.2PPC on a dual 1Ghz Mac? I have had zero success with installing and using Linux with this system. The system is a Dual 1Ghz Apple (Quicksilver, I think) Video card is a Nvidia GeForce4 MX And it uses the USB sound system and the sound sticks from Harmon Kardon. Also the flat panel display. My two biggest problems that I can as yet identify are: Bootstrap/ patitioning And video support. Any help would be greatly appreciated! J Thanks to all in advance. P.S. My goal would be to have a Linux only MAC. Not Dual boot is that possible? Or must I have a Mac partition first? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PPC
Not currentlyhowever, did install mdk 8.2 on iMac (first DVD/CDROM model) and it installed like a dream ... provided I added video=riva (for Nvidia card) on the install line and I set up the /boot partition between the basic MacOS and mdk. Now that Jaguar is out (10.2),OS X is MUCH more friendly and usable. Overall, I still prefer mdk. Currently run mdk8.2 on a pc and OS X on an ibook. Erik On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 05:44, shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ok, i have seen a few posts about PPC mandrake, but they are seldom answered and few. i am considering getting a notebook computer, and i would rather get a mac and dual boot Mandrake/OSX than get a windows machine. the question i guess is is anyone out there successfully running Mandrake PPC? and how does she run? - -- No one is free when others are oppressed. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9p/0TBwq+ZwvIN/oRAk1lAJ9AeXSy3EcEYLdKR/eJPBXzga+VTACfeMkC eZJzvb7a4JA1PTjzR8xELgw= =ehh2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PPC
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ok, i have seen a few posts about PPC mandrake, but they are seldom answered and few. i am considering getting a notebook computer, and i would rather get a mac and dual boot Mandrake/OSX than get a windows machine. the question i guess is is anyone out there successfully running Mandrake PPC? and how does she run? - -- No one is free when others are oppressed. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9p/0TBwq+ZwvIN/oRAk1lAJ9AeXSy3EcEYLdKR/eJPBXzga+VTACfeMkC eZJzvb7a4JA1PTjzR8xELgw= =ehh2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] [ppc 9500] kernel panic
i got to the xconfig which hangs up at the end. This let me choose xinerama, detect successfully the two video cards but let me select only one screen. i've force to reboot, getting a kernel panic when eth0 up, a second reboot under run level 1 but get another kernel panic when typing the root pas... i should mention i saw in the memory dump following kernel panic some area about ALTIVEC ??? i'm using 2.4.18 kernel but don't know where to leave the relative initrd ??? -- Yvon Thoraval Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] [newbie ppc oldworld] no CDRom device found
that' my first trial of mandrake ppc. The steup ppc 9500 usiong an ATA tempos sonnet card cdrom : yamaha CDRW 2100 S Firstevall, when running Install Mandrake PPC 8.2 this stops execution by an error message : Sorry, can't setup BootX Then i did that manually using : vmlinux, all.gz, No video driver, force scsi, ramdisk siez = 34000. then restart with no prob until i got the message : No CDRrom device fund and following that, a popup menu giving a list of driver and the message : which driver should i try to gain scsi access ? quite frankly, i don't know, at all, which one to choose and what king of arguments to pass to it... where could i found info on that ? hoping you could help me. -- Yvon Thoraval Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [newbie ppc oldworld] freeze when installing mac53c94
that' my first trial of mandrake ppc. The steup ppc 9500 usiong an ATA tempos sonnet card cdrom : yamaha CDRW 2100 S Firstevall, when running Install Mandrake PPC 8.2 this stops execution by an error message : Sorry, can't setup BootX Then i did that manually using : vmlinux, all.gz, No video driver, force scsi, ramdisk siez = 34000. then restart with no prob until i got the message : No CDRrom device fund and following that, a popup menu giving a list of driver and the message : which driver should i try to gain scsi access ? i've ran to DraX using mesh as a scsi driver. after having choosen french-french as langage, aggreed to license DrakX tried to install mac53c94 pilot (the card on my mac is a mac53c96) hoiwever DrakX freezes at that point ending with an auto-reboot on macOS... and alos i do have an ATA scsi ACARD, 6260 (scsi probe gives : ACARD AEC-6260 V3.12.1) should i try expert mode instead ? (im using vmlinux 2.2 and all-2.2.gz as ramdisk) -- Yvon Thoraval Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ppc 8.2
I have an ibook that specs out as: 600mhz 640mb of ram 40gb of hard drive a firewire 20gb hard drive airport card I would like to install 8.2 to the 20gb firewire hard drive. Where would I find information on this and is there a ppc mailing list? os x is great, but I miss my window managers, and so many other tools that have not been ported yet. Thanks guys and gals, eric l. mcclure Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PPC Clones
Anyone know if I can install mandrake on an old PowerComputing PowerCentre 180 (clone)? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PPC distribution, G4 start up problems
Hi, I am a very newbie and looking for help I've installed Mandrake's PPC distribution on G4 dual processor, apple studio display, ATI 128 Rage graphics. I was never able to get the graphical installer to work (the screen simply went blue and nothing happened). Following a text install, the system starts to boot, then the screen goes black and stays there. I'm guessing this is a display or graphics card problem but I don't really know. Can anyone make suggestions? Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PPC Installation, DrakX and boot loader
Hello, I try to install LM 8.0 on PPC G4 433 MHz. I used the graphic installer DrakX and everything went fine until I reached the last but one point: building the boot loader. When I try to build it I get the error message: Installation of bootloader failed. Error: hmount: /dev/hdb10:not a Macintosh HFS volume (Invalid argument) ybin:An error occured trying to access /dev/hdb10 as HFS The Linux volumes are /dev/hdb11 for / /dev/hdb12 for swap and /dev/hdb13. The MacOS volumes are /dev/hdb9 for MacOS X and /dev/hda9 for MacOS 9.2.1. So the installer tries to take a non HFS volume to put the boot loader on and I didn´t find a way to change the volume in the graphic installer. I don´t want to do an 'install-text' install, because I´m new to Linux and there isn´t much documentation for the PowerPC machines. I only have some experience with NetBSD on mac68k, but that´s different. I hope someone can help me. Thanks in advance! Dirk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PPC version
--- Mike Borrelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, I have an Apple, and would *love* to run Mandrake on it, but I don't have access to a CD burner at the moment. As far as I know there is no Mandrake for the power PC. Linuxppc and all the other ppc distros are made by different companies. Is there some way that I can setup a harddrive partition to be a gig or something, copy the installation there and install it? I'd try downloading the iso and mounting it. Disk Copy or Toast Pro (even if you have no burner) should be able to mount it. Then run the mounted iso as if it's a CD and when it asks where you want to install, tell it to go to the new partition you made for Linux (I'm assuming linuxppc will ask you that, I don't know first hand). If you have to buy Toast Pro, you're probably better off just buying a copy of Linuxppc. I'm thinking of getting a powerbook and putting linuxppc on it myself. Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PPC version
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 08:25 pm, you wrote: There is a PPC version of Mandrake. It's a Release Candidate of 8.0. Check out thier website at www.linux-mandrake.com. --- Mike Borrelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, I have an Apple, and would *love* to run Mandrake on it, but I don't have access to a CD burner at the moment. As far as I know there is no Mandrake for the power PC. Linuxppc and all the other ppc distros are made by different companies. Is there some way that I can setup a harddrive partition to be a gig or something, copy the installation there and install it? I'd try downloading the iso and mounting it. Disk Copy or Toast Pro (even if you have no burner) should be able to mount it. Then run the mounted iso as if it's a CD and when it asks where you want to install, tell it to go to the new partition you made for Linux (I'm assuming linuxppc will ask you that, I don't know first hand). If you have to buy Toast Pro, you're probably better off just buying a copy of Linuxppc. I'm thinking of getting a powerbook and putting linuxppc on it myself. Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PPC version
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 10:25 pm, Matt Greer escribió: --- Mike Borrelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an Apple, and would *love* to run Mandrake on it, but I don't have access to a CD burner at the moment. As far as I know there is no Mandrake for the power PC. Sure there is http://www.mandrakesoft.com/community/mandrakesoftnews/news?n=/mandrakesoft/products/1212 -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PPC version
wrong, for real with all the stuff that makes ManDrake great. find it at linux-mandrake.com On Tuesday 21 August 2001 23:25, Matt Greer wrote: --- Mike Borrelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, I have an Apple, and would *love* to run Mandrake on it, but I don't have access to a CD burner at the moment. As far as I know there is no Mandrake for the power PC. Linuxppc and all the other ppc distros are made by different companies. Is there some way that I can setup a harddrive partition to be a gig or something, copy the installation there and install it? I'd try downloading the iso and mounting it. Disk Copy or Toast Pro (even if you have no burner) should be able to mount it. Then run the mounted iso as if it's a CD and when it asks where you want to install, tell it to go to the new partition you made for Linux (I'm assuming linuxppc will ask you that, I don't know first hand). If you have to buy Toast Pro, you're probably better off just buying a copy of Linuxppc. I'm thinking of getting a powerbook and putting linuxppc on it myself. Matt __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
