RE: ram question

2001-09-11 Thread Zack
To my knowledge, only 133 mobo's can utilize 133 and 100 RAM. 100 mobos cannot utilize 133 RAM. Check www.ramseeker.com for the cheapest RAM prices, as well as upgrade guides. Everymac.com is also a good resource for this - lookup your G3, and he'll tell you what RAM you can/cannot use.

Re: Kernel Panic

2001-09-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Louis-Pierre Morin wrote: What machine, and which kernel? There is both 2.2 and 2.4 on the CD. You could try the other kernel. Stew Benedict Well I don't really know I just pop the CD in hit tab select any of the boot type and it hangs anyways. Sorry _ I

Internal SCSI drives not seen by DrakX...

2001-09-11 Thread Patrick Ladam
Hi everyone, I have a Blue/White G3 Rev.1 (yosemite) and have been running different linux distros for 2 years (LPPC, YDL...). First, congrats for DrakX which sounds really nice, for the french Kbd too... Thought, I ran through a problem with DrakX (Final Mandrake 8.0 PPC) which was unable to

ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Ryan C. Gordon
Are ReiserFS and/or ext3 stable for PPC? If so, has anyone got recommendations for the best way to get them installed on Mandrake/PPC? I just kicked the plug out of my iMac, and had to suffer the wait through a fsck. :) Thanks, --ryan.

Re: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Ryan C. Gordon wrote: Are ReiserFS and/or ext3 stable for PPC? If so, has anyone got recommendations for the best way to get them installed on Mandrake/PPC? I just kicked the plug out of my iMac, and had to suffer the wait through a fsck. :) ReiserFS endian-safe

Configuring keyboard

2001-09-11 Thread David Kiltz
Hello everybody, so I managed to install Mandrake PPC 8.0. Works fine for me. The installer is now working pretty well (thanks folks !). It seemed as though I had to set the bootstrap as active ? Never mind. JFYI, funny thing is, when I hit the boot option l at the yaboot prompt I get an

Re: ram question

2001-09-11 Thread Nicholas Meyer
on 9/11/01 1:40 AM, Zack at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To my knowledge, only 133 mobo's can utilize 133 and 100 RAM. 100 mobos cannot utilize 133 RAM. Other way around: 133 mobo's can only use 133 ram, while 100's can use 100 and 133. Nick Check www.ramseeker.com for the cheapest RAM

Re: Configuring keyboard

2001-09-11 Thread Andreas Steffens
Hi David, could it be that you did not started the keytable daemon ? Look into drakxservices if it is started ! Also you can configure the keyboard in the Mandrake Control Center ! After my first installation on my iBook 2001, I had a keytable problem, too, what I could not solve. So I

Re: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Stew Benedict wrote: SB SB On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Ryan C. Gordon wrote: SB SB SB Are ReiserFS and/or ext3 stable for PPC? If so, has anyone got SB recommendations for the best way to get them installed on Mandrake/PPC? I SB just kicked the plug out of my iMac, and had to

Re: Internal SCSI drives not seen by DrakX...

2001-09-11 Thread Patrick Ladam
Stew Benedict wrote: The SCSI issue may be due to my omitting the aic7xxx driver. Do you know what SCSI card the machine uses? As far as being able to boot MacOS from ofboot, that should not rely at all on the Linux kernel, as the whole process takes place before Linux ever comes into

RE: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Jonathan Sailor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It should. - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Henrik Edlund Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 9:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake? On Tue, 11 Sep 2001,

Re: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Stew Benedict wrote: SB I have not tried it, so I can't really recommend a procedure. Nor did I SB try anything with Reiser and the installer. Obviously Reiser code is in SB the installer as it is the same one used for Intel, but at the time I was SB more concerned with

RE: no sense

2001-09-11 Thread Jonathan Sailor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 We do care. I am OK (or you wouldn't be reading this ;-( - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of francisco perez Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 3:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: no sense

Re: no sense

2001-09-11 Thread francisco perez
sorry, i don't want to disturb, you got the reason , i just feel so bad, excuse me. Fran _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

Re: scsi drivers don't work

2001-09-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Robert Zelnik wrote: If I started madrake with kernel from other distro (LinuxPPC or YDL), it uses MESH (for internal SCSI) and 53C94 (for external SCSI) drivers. Mandrake kernel doesn't include this drivers (or they don't work well on OldWorld PMac with BootX). Is

RE: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Jonathan Sailor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If yaboot didn't support ResierFS, then you would need an ext2 partition for the kernel, a root, and a HFS bootstrap, at minimum so why not just make one for booting? - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

Re: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Sylvain OBEGI wrote: SO It also seems that before being delivered, they stop by Apple's office. Not according to the person I talked to. If you had add-ons, like printers, they stop by Eire (here in Europe) so be repackaged with add-ons. but not otherwise. -- Henrik

Re: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Stew Benedict wrote: SB In that scenario, you may still need them, as the modules reside SB on /lib and you'll need them to mount /. To assure they(it) is SB included in the initrd image, use the --with= option: SB SB [root@imac root]# /sbin/mkinitrd --with=reiserfs

Re: no sense

2001-09-11 Thread Andreas Steffens
Hi Francisco, I think everybody is sorry and angry about the terror which is going on in NYC, Washington etc. Also I think that the most people are shocked and nearly everybody is watching the latest news on TV. I am doing this since approx 05.00 p.m. here in germany, this is the time I

Re: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Henrik Edlund wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Stew Benedict wrote: SB SB On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Ryan C. Gordon wrote: SB SB SB Are ReiserFS and/or ext3 stable for PPC? If so, has anyone got SB recommendations for the best way to get them installed on Mandrake/PPC? I

RE: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Jonathan Sailor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ext3? - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ryan C. Gordon Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 8:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake? Are ReiserFS and/or ext3

no sense

2001-09-11 Thread francisco perez
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RE: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Jonathan Sailor wrote: JS -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- JS Hash: SHA1 JS JS - From Taiwan? They are being built in Taiwan according to the person I spoke to at Apple. When they are built they are shipped to the buyer. Build time (queue time I would say) is 9 days

RE: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Henrik Edlund wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Jonathan Sailor wrote: JS -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- JS Hash: SHA1 JS JS I might suggest making an ext2 partition for /boot just to make JS yaboot happy. Or since yaboot needs an HFS partition, you might just JS

Re: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

2001-09-11 Thread Sylvain OBEGI
Ok, because mine stopped by Apple's office (Eire too I guess :) Sylvain OBEGI Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 661913 - Original Message - From: Henrik Edlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 10:54 PM Subject: Re: ReiserFS/ext3 for PPC Mandrake?

partitioning bug on IBM hardware

2001-09-11 Thread Todd Inglett
Hi all... Finally getting back to some time trying Mandrake on IBM hardware. I have a 43p 140 and got my own 2.4.10-pre4 kernel running on it. I rsync'ed the latest ppc cooker from wtfo (yesterday) and used all-2.2.gz as the ramdisk 'cause the all.gz is a bit too big for a floppy :(. This

Re: Internal SCSI drives not seen by DrakX...

2001-09-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Patrick Ladam wrote: Hi everyone, I have a Blue/White G3 Rev.1 (yosemite) and have been running different linux distros for 2 years (LPPC, YDL...). First, congrats for DrakX which sounds really nice, for the french Kbd too... Thought, I ran through a problem with