Best way to help find bugs - install or upgrade?

2002-02-27 Thread Sean O'Brien
Folks, I'm running Mandrake PPC 8.0 on a Rev B imac 233 with 64 megs of RAM (soon to be 192 when the UPS guys get around to it). It's a dual boot machine with MacOS 9. I have yet to get Mac-on-Linux working. ADSL PPPoE through Verizon, using roaring penguin. I want to upgrade to 8.2 beta to

Re: Best way to help find bugs - install or upgrade?

2002-02-27 Thread Stew Benedict
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Sean O'Brien wrote: Folks, I'm running Mandrake PPC 8.0 on a Rev B imac 233 with 64 megs of RAM (soon to be 192 when the UPS guys get around to it). It's a dual boot machine with MacOS 9. I have yet to get Mac-on-Linux working. ADSL PPPoE through Verizon, using

Re: Best way to help find bugs - install or upgrade?

2002-02-27 Thread Sean O'Brien
Stew, Thanks for the prompt response. Burning the iso's now. I'll post a note on how it went tonight, time permitting. Sean __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - Send FREE e-cards for every occasion! http://greetings.yahoo.com

install guide?

2002-02-27 Thread Michael Marcucio
i am decideing to take the plunge once again and try to install mandrake on my powerbook. i just have two questions before i start. First, does it matter where the partions are located on the drive? i am planning to have one partition linux and one mac(osx and 9.1 on same partition). and

Re: install guide?

2002-02-27 Thread Stew Benedict
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Michael Marcucio wrote: i am decideing to take the plunge once again and try to install mandrake on my powerbook. i just have two questions before i start. First, does it matter where the partions are located on the drive? i am planning to have one partition linux

RE: install guide?

2002-02-27 Thread AllanL
[AllanL] There is a serious limitation in OSX, it has to be on the first 8 gigs as I remember. On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Michael Marcucio wrote: i am decideing to take the plunge once again and try to install mandrake on my powerbook. i just have two questions before i start.

Install/CD Problems... please?

2002-02-27 Thread Nick Texidor
Hi I have just subscribed to the list after running into a problem last night. I attempted to install the 8.2 beta over the top of an already working 8.0 on a G3 Powerbook, with out any joy. Firstly, I choose to do an upgrade, and while the install was a lot slower than a normal install it was

Re: Install/CD Problems... please?

2002-02-27 Thread Stew Benedict
On 28 Feb 2002, Nick Texidor wrote: Hi I have just subscribed to the list after running into a problem last night. I attempted to install the 8.2 beta over the top of an already working 8.0 on a G3 Powerbook, with out any joy. Firstly, I choose to do an upgrade, and while the

Re: Install/CD Problems... please?

2002-02-27 Thread Nick Texidor
On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 11:35, Stew Benedict wrote: Update will be a lot slower, as there is a lot more to do than a straigh install. There are known issues with gnome on the beta1, so that may have been driving that problem. Ok. Thanks for that. It seemed to work the second time round

8.2 beta w/GeForce2MX

2002-02-27 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
I tried installing the new beta, so I figured the results could be useful. I'm running a Quicksilver G4/733 with the GeForce2MX video card. Sorry if I seem critical, I really do appreciate all the work that people have put into Mandrake, I mean all my criticism to be constructive :-). If you

Re: Install/CD Problems... please?

2002-02-27 Thread Stew Benedict
On 28 Feb 2002, Nick Texidor wrote: On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 11:35, Stew Benedict wrote: Update will be a lot slower, as there is a lot more to do than a straigh install. There are known issues with gnome on the beta1, so that may have been driving that problem. Ok. Thanks for that.

Re: Install/CD Problems... please?

2002-02-27 Thread Nick Texidor
On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 13:27, Stew Benedict wrote: A heap is not normal - 3 is - there are 2 future domain modules and a trident one that are bad. I had asked to have the future domain removed by the kernel maintainer, but it didn't happen in the build you're seeing. Trident has since been

Re: 8.2 beta w/GeForce2MX

2002-02-27 Thread Stew Benedict
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: I tried installing the new beta, so I figured the results could be useful. I'm running a Quicksilver G4/733 with the GeForce2MX video card. Sorry if I seem critical, I really do appreciate all the work that people have put into Mandrake, I mean

Re: Install/CD Problems... please?

2002-02-27 Thread Nick Texidor
On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 14:30, Stew Benedict wrote: Thinking about it a bit, I seem to recall crazed urpmi behavior similar to what you're reporting on the normal cooker list. it may be the same problem version is on the PPC ISO's. Use it daily here against my local build tree to update my

Install on Power Computing PTP 250

2002-02-27 Thread joe
Hello all, I just joined the list and not sure if my problems/experience were covered or not I am installing on a Power Computing PTPro 250 with 128mb Clean install on a 4G fujitzu SCSI drive partitioned before with fwb harddisk tool kit and bootx and kernel running off the default WD