Re: 8.2 installer initrd fails on supermac

2002-05-25 Thread Anne et Bertrand
Le 2002.05.25 20:34, Stew Benedict a écrit : > > On Sat, 25 May 2002, Peter R. Wood (Lists) wrote: > > > Howdy, > > > > I'm trying to do a fresh install of mdk 8.2 ppc (final) on my > SuperMac > > J700. Now I've had linux working on here for many years, and I've > > been using BootX to boot up a

Charset on KDE 2.2 and KDE 3

2002-05-25 Thread Marco Prioste
both KDE 2 and 3 has the same font problem: if i use drakfont to read the euro sign it shows right for iso8859-15 charset. if i try to choose on kde control center the same font with the same charset it doesn't show the euro sign (it seems to use a diferent charset). i've changed my default.kma

Netscape 4.73-8a

2002-05-25 Thread Marco Prioste
Ben, I know this version of Netscape is from yellowdog. No problem with that. it's a better version than mandrake because of the java lib. I saw what Stew has said about java, so i'll test it on mozilla, galeon and konqueror. My problem right know is that i can't install plugins on netscape. it

Re: Mount ext2 partition in OSX or OS9

2002-05-25 Thread Quentin Mason
> Does anybody know how to mount a linux partition on the Mac desktop. And > even better, to do drag and drop in there. Cannot be done in OS9. It used to work with IDE drives and MountX but that stopped working ~18 months ago when ext2fs was updated and Ben stopped supporting it. The next best

Re: Mount ext2 partition in OSX or OS9

2002-05-25 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Sat, 25 May 2002, Jeroen Diederen wrote: JD> Does anybody know how to mount a linux partition on the Mac desktop. JD> And even better, to do drag and drop in there. I have been looking for this as well. A reverse solution I found was to patch the kernel with UFS support. Then run Linux on top

Mount ext2 partition in OSX or OS9

2002-05-25 Thread Jeroen Diederen
Does anybody know how to mount a linux partition on the Mac desktop. And even better, to do drag and drop in there. -- Best regards, Jeroen Diederen http://diederen.demon.nl

Re: 8.2 installer initrd fails on supermac

2002-05-25 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 25 May 2002, Peter R. Wood (Lists) wrote: > At Saturday, 25 May 2002, you wrote: > > >Be sure to specify devfs=mount or devfs=nomount in your kernel arguments, > > >along with root=/dev/sdaX (X=/) > > > Tried both of these as kernel arguments in BootX: > > devfs=mount root=/dev/sdb7

Re: 8.2 installer initrd fails on supermac

2002-05-25 Thread Peter R. Wood (Lists)
>Tried both of these as kernel arguments in BootX: > >devfs=mount root=/dev/sdb7 >devfs=nomount root=/dev/sdb7 > >Both gave me the same results as before. > >Am I supposed to be using the initrd and kernel that are in the BootX >directory, or the ones that are in the 'boot' directory on the CD?

Re: 8.2 installer initrd fails on supermac

2002-05-25 Thread Peter R. Wood (Lists)
At Saturday, 25 May 2002, you wrote: >Be sure to specify devfs=mount or devfs=nomount in your kernel arguments, >along with root=/dev/sdaX (X=/) Tried both of these as kernel arguments in BootX: devfs=mount root=/dev/sdb7 devfs=nomount root=/dev/sdb7 Both gave me the same results as before.

spamassasin, Razor and ppc contribs.

2002-05-25 Thread Ben Reser
a) spamassasin isn't in the contribs can we pretty please get it there? It builds nice and cleanly without any changes. (Though it does have stuid Requires and BuildRequires see my post to cooker@ for info on that). b) perl-Razor-Agent is but perl-Net-DNS isn't and it isn't in main either. So c

Re: 8.2 installer initrd fails on supermac

2002-05-25 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 25 May 2002, Peter R. Wood (Lists) wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm trying to do a fresh install of mdk 8.2 ppc (final) on my SuperMac > J700. Now I've had linux working on here for many years, and I've > been using BootX to boot up and do installs, etc. However, with > the initrd and kernel

8.2 installer initrd fails on supermac

2002-05-25 Thread Peter R. Wood (Lists)
Howdy, I'm trying to do a fresh install of mdk 8.2 ppc (final) on my SuperMac J700. Now I've had linux working on here for many years, and I've been using BootX to boot up and do installs, etc. However, with the initrd and kernel that are supplied on the 8.2 cd, I get an error when I try to