Re: vote for packages

2002-04-11 Thread Arto Leskinen
>On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Nick Texidor wrote: > >> Sorry Stew, I misunderstood what you meant when you said you had a little >> space on the 2nd CD. sorry for the mixup! >> N >> > >No problems. I picked a few things that were left out and maxed them both >out at 650M. I'm sure someone will be d

Re: Begging for help!! Can't start my x86 Mandrake 8.2 box

2002-04-11 Thread Quentin Mason
Hi, > My x86 machine, running Mandrake 8.2, is stuck in a loop... everytime it > boots itsays that /dev/hda1 was not unmounted cleanly, and asks if I want to test > the drive... I can'tsay NO! It can't check because the drive is mounted, So it then >drops me > into a rescue login. Irun the e2

Begging for help!! Can't start my x86 Mandrake 8.2 box

2002-04-11 Thread Nick Texidor
I'm so sorry to post this message here, but I'm not sure where else to post it at themoment! My x86 machine, running Mandrake 8.2, is stuck in a loop... everytime it boots itsays that /dev/hda1 was not unmounted cleanly, and asks if I want to test the drive... I can'tsay NO! It can't check becau

Re: OK - now your turn ;^)

2002-04-11 Thread Quentin Mason
Hi, > Also, any information any of you might have on what few commercial apps > might be available for PPC Linux, those references would be great too. Mathematica is available at cost for linux on PPC. technical requirements RAM/HD space: http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/platforms/

OK - now your turn ;^)

2002-04-11 Thread Stew Benedict
We're looking for success stories or general pro-PPC stories. If any of you are excited about being able to run Linux on your PPC hardware, and especially running Mandrake, and would like to share your experience, we'd like to hear about it. This is what Denis sent me: > So: whoever knows anyth

Re: vote for packages

2002-04-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Nick Texidor wrote: > Sorry Stew, I misunderstood what you meant when you said you had a little > space on the 2nd CD. sorry for the mixup! > N > No problems. I picked a few things that were left out and maxed them both out at 650M. I'm sure someone will be dissappoint

Re: vote for packages

2002-04-11 Thread Nick Texidor
Sorry Stew, I misunderstood what you meant when you said you had a little space on the 2nd CD. sorry for the mixup! N > > On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Nick Texidor wrote: > >> Is Java supplied with the distro? If not, how about including it? >> If it is, can you include jEdit? >> N >> > > No it's no

Re: appletalk laserwriter printer problem

2002-04-11 Thread Tom Loscheider
Jeroen Diederen wrote: > Hi folks, > > just another question, maybe I shouldn't ask it here, I don't know... > > How can I 'see' and use my Appletalk Apple Laserwriter 320, connected via a > Appletalk/Ethertalk bridge to a hub, connected to my iMac with the GMAC > ethernet card ? > > Jeroen >

Re: Install on tiBook 500

2002-04-11 Thread Colin Ward
Kener, Andy wrote: > Well, good news here. A sucessfull install on a Titanium Powerbook G4 > 500MHz. I only have a firewire cdrw for removable media, so doing a cdrom > install was out of the question. I ended up putting the boot files on an > hfs partition and booting from OF. Then i pr

Re: vote for packages

2002-04-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Nick Texidor wrote: > Is Java supplied with the distro? If not, how about including it? If it > is, can you include jEdit? > N > No it's not. http://www.blackdown.org is generally where PPC folks get their java, afaik. Again, I think I've said this a few times, there

Re: vote for packages

2002-04-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Nick Texidor wrote: > Hi Stew, > > I just went to download OpenOffice from their site, however the link for > the Mandrake PPC version links to perso.mandrake.com/~sbenedict, andit says it's not >found... do you have OpenOffice available to download? > I used to host it

mirroring a powerbook display in mandrake

2002-04-11 Thread Peter R. Wood
Greetings, Has anyone tried to mirror a PowerBook display from Mandrake/PPC? I would like to do a demo of a Mandrake install on my Pismo PowerBook at a local usergroup meeting, and I'm wondering if it will be feasible for the display to be mirrored to an overhead projector via the VGA port. I re

Re: vote for packages

2002-04-11 Thread Nick Texidor
Is Java supplied with the distro? If not, how about including it? If it is, can you include jEdit? N > > Currently there's about 20MB free on CD2. I believe all the missing > libs etc, from beta1, beta2 have been addressed, as well as pulling in > some requests folks asked for. I've poste

Re: vote for packages

2002-04-11 Thread Nick Texidor
Hi Stew, I just went to download OpenOffice from their site, however the link for the Mandrake PPC version links to perso.mandrake.com/~sbenedict, andit says it's not found... do you have OpenOffice available to download? Thanks Nick > > On 11 Apr 2002, Nick Texidor wrote: > >> I just notice

Re: no hda

2002-04-11 Thread Johanna Pink
I installed Yellowdog on my iBook 2 600 CD/RW. For me it was the other way round - hard drive was recognized, but CD/RW wasn't. :-))) Johanna Stew Benedict wrote: > FYI, from YDL list: > > Hi, I just installed YDL 2.2 on my ibook2 600 CD/RW. For your > information YDL 2.2 does NOT recognize the

Re: no hda

2002-04-11 Thread Paul Sabatino
That worked!! Thanks Stew! <--Paul--> On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 06:45, Stew Benedict wrote: > > FYI, from YDL list: > > Hi, I just installed YDL 2.2 on my ibook2 600 CD/RW. For your > information YDL 2.2 does NOT recognize the hard drive in ibook2 with > CD/RW. It does recognize

no hda

2002-04-11 Thread Stew Benedict
FYI, from YDL list: Hi, I just installed YDL 2.2 on my ibook2 600 CD/RW. For your information YDL 2.2 does NOT recognize the hard drive in ibook2 with CD/RW. It does recognize the CD/RW though. To get YDL 2.2 to recognize the hard drive you must add "hda=16383,16,64" at the boot prompt: "ins

Re: Missing /dev/hda during install

2002-04-11 Thread Paul Sabatino
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 22:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am stuck with the same problem, except for work reasons I can not be > without a laptop so I can not delete all of the OS's to check. This is > the white IBook, right? > > For some reason Mandrake, Yellowdog, Debian, and SUse are all h

Re: Missing /dev/hda during install

2002-04-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am stuck with the same problem, except for work reasons I can not be > without a laptop so I can not delete all of the OS's to check. This is > the white IBook, right? > > For some reason Mandrake, Yellowdog, Debian, and SUse are all having the

Re: Missing /dev/hda during install

2002-04-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am stuck with the same problem, except for work reasons I can not be > without a laptop so I can not delete all of the OS's to check. This is > the white IBook, right? > > For some reason Mandrake, Yellowdog, Debian, and SUse are all having the

Re: appletalk laserwriter printer problem

2002-04-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > I will have a look at it one of these days, do you happen to have the link for > the (old) netatalk homepage ? > > Thank you ! > man pap On your system, after netatlk is installed. Thanks Christiaan, I didn't know about pap. Stew Benedict --

Re: install on iMac 400 Mhz (early 2000); firewire CD-burner II

2002-04-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > Hi Stew, > > I added the line > below sbp2 ohci1394 > to the modules.conf and after reboot with my cd-burner turned on, I did > a > dmesg, here are the results... > No firewire there at all. Try to modprobe sbp2. Be frorearned, firewire is still

Re: vote for packages

2002-04-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On 11 Apr 2002, Nick Texidor wrote: > I just noticed there's a PPC release of OpenOffice on the OpenOffice > site... .is it already included in the PPC package? > Nope, No room. Mandrake has a package of it, which Gwenole just emailed me yesterday asking me to try building it. It's quite

Java and Together with MDK Linux PPC b2

2002-04-11 Thread Arto Leskinen
Hi all! Thank you for your help : ^) I am trying to test Together with Mandrake Linux PPC. In first try installer said that libjava.so was not found. Then I istalled j2sdk-1.3.0b02-linux-ppc.tar to /usr/local. I added /usr/local/j2sdk1.3/bin to $PATH, set $JAVA_HOME and $JAVA_PATH to /usr/local

Printer still doesn't work.

2002-04-11 Thread Johanna
I can now load the module, and dmesg | grep USB shows the printer, but it still doesn't print, and the Z 42 tool can't show the printer status. It's a quite normal USB printer, a driver for which is included in gimp-print, so I don't really understand why it won't work?!? Johanna