Re: using bootX to do a ftp install

2002-12-22 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: Thank you for the links, I really needed to RTFM. followed the porcedure and am still not sucessfull, I make a directory mdk, extracted the tarbal, overwrote RPMS with the RPMS folder I downloaded 2.5 gb from sunet.se did my gendistrib

error ordering package list cooker install

2002-12-22 Thread Brent Hasty
K well I resolved the kernel oops by fdisk reinstall, reinitalized using mac os 9.1 recreated my mirror directory for mdk, did the gen distrib, a few things complained about dependencies. started a graphical install, got all the way to choosing package groups, and got the following error when

Re: Installation crashed, kernel exception

2002-12-21 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: On Friday 20 December 2002 07:00 pm, Stew Benedict wrote: I copied the the key files from cd to my ppc directory I will be doing the ftp install from, this time the ftp worked, launched the graphical installer, progressed to the point of installing

Re: Installation crashed, kernel exception

2002-12-21 Thread Brent Hasty
On Saturday 21 December 2002 02:56 am, Stew Benedict wrote: On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: On Friday 20 December 2002 07:00 pm, Stew Benedict wrote: I copied the the key files from cd to my ppc directory I will be doing the ftp install from, this time the ftp worked, launched the

using bootX to do a ftp install

2002-12-21 Thread Brent Hasty
I recently mirrored ftp.sunet.se, 2.5 GB in the ppc directory, when loading 2nd stage bz2 the kernel oopses at about %90 bar, while waiting loading program into memory I noticed this line in the oops comments printed to screen last math c045c000 last altivec This is a g3 wallstreet

Re: Installation crashed, kernel exception

2002-12-21 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: I mirrored ftp.sunet.se lat night seem to be much more complete, 2.5 GB I have not run gendistrib on these yet, what is the proper procedure for doing so? There is a README in the same place you got the ISO that goes through the whole process.

Re: using bootX to do a ftp install

2002-12-21 Thread Brent Hasty
On Saturday 21 December 2002 12:27 pm, you wrote: Hopefully I can explain, When I downloaded the cooking ppc off of sunet.se, and started the installation process using the bootX I installed from your cd-iso, the new stage two from sunet.se that I now have does not load sucessfully. follow?

Re: using bootX to do a ftp install

2002-12-21 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: On Saturday 21 December 2002 12:27 pm, you wrote: Hopefully I can explain, When I downloaded the cooking ppc off of sunet.se, and started the installation process using the bootX I installed from your cd-iso, the new stage two from sunet.se that I

Re: Installation crashed, kernel exception

2002-12-20 Thread Brent Hasty
On Thursday 19 December 2002 03:12 pm, Brent Hasty wrote: A continuing saga What is the proper procedure for using the 9.x-ppc-cooker-install-2.iso with the mirrored /linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/ppc on my local network? I have set up bootX, I have the mandrake install directory on my Mac OS

Re: Installation crashed, kernel exception

2002-12-20 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: On Thursday 19 December 2002 03:12 pm, Brent Hasty wrote: A continuing saga What is the proper procedure for using the 9.x-ppc-cooker-install-2.iso with the mirrored /linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/ppc on my local network? I have set up bootX, I

Re: Installation crashed, kernel exception

2002-12-20 Thread Brent Hasty
On Friday 20 December 2002 07:00 pm, Stew Benedict wrote: I copied the the key files from cd to my ppc directory I will be doing the ftp install from, this time the ftp worked, launched the graphical installer, progressed to the point of installing packages then ran into this... When statring

New benh based kernel

2002-12-19 Thread Stew Benedict
OK, Took another pass at this. Patched in supermount and xfs, and fixed all the unresolved symbols issues. I've tested supermount, xfs and nfs client here myself, as well as normal network functionality, and sleep.

Re: New benh based kernel

2002-12-19 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Stew Benedict wrote: SB Does it solve sleep issues? (my machine is old, so I haven't had the SB issues some of you have) SB Does it solve X issues? I have been running 2.4.20rc4-benh for a while now and AGP graphics and sleep works on my iBook2. With the 8.2 updated kernel I

Re: New benh based kernel

2002-12-19 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Henrik Edlund wrote: On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Stew Benedict wrote: SB Does it solve sleep issues? (my machine is old, so I haven't had the SB issues some of you have) SB Does it solve X issues? I have been running 2.4.20rc4-benh for a while now and AGP graphics and

interim gnome-spell

2002-12-19 Thread Stew Benedict
I've posted an interim gnome-spell, built against the correct libaspell, since the ppc rebuild didn't fall in sequence: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/gnome-spell-0.5-2.1mdk.ppc.rpm This should allow folks to install evolution again. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft

Installation crashed, kernel exception

2002-12-19 Thread Brent Hasty
Using the 9.x-ppc-cooker-install-2.iso, about 200 mb, and ftp to a server containging /linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/ppc on my local network. Following the instructions, I setup bootX and began installation on my powerbook wallstreet I. Installation procedes, it doesnot detect the builtin lan on

Re: Installation crashed, kernel exception

2002-12-19 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: Using the 9.x-ppc-cooker-install-2.iso, about 200 mb, and ftp to a server containging /linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/ppc on my local network. Following the instructions, I setup bootX and began installation on my powerbook wallstreet I.

Re: Installation crashed, kernel exception

2002-12-19 Thread Brent Hasty
On Thursday 19 December 2002 03:24 pm, Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: Using the 9.x-ppc-cooker-install-2.iso, about 200 mb, and ftp to a server containging /linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/ppc on my local network. Following the instructions, I setup bootX and

Re: 'gendistrib' idea

2002-12-18 Thread Christian Walther
Another thought: maybe run it from rescue, if I could get the proper bits on the rescue image (if they're not already there) I've run into this problem too, and also had the idea of trying it from rescue, either with the 8.2 CD or with the first cooker install ISO (don't remember), but it

Re: The good old days!

2002-12-17 Thread Jonathan C. Sitte
Ok. Is there anything we can do to make finding information on getting linux mandrake on the ppc allot easier such as creating our own database etc. It really annoyed me that the mandrake site didn't have a dedicated section other than forums and a simple how to install. Just a thought turning

Re: The good old days!

2002-12-17 Thread Stew Benedict
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Jonathan C. Sitte wrote: Ok. Is there anything we can do to make finding information on getting linux mandrake on the ppc allot easier such as creating our own database etc. It really annoyed me that the mandrake site didn't have a dedicated section other than forums

Re: The good old days!

2002-12-17 Thread Jonathan C. Sitte
Sounds like a great idea to me. I don't have loads of time but if someone else has time to maintain that would be really cool. jcsitte On Tuesday, Dec 17, 2002, at 18:26 America/New_York, Stew Benedict wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Jonathan C. Sitte wrote: Ok. Is there anything we can do to

'gendistrib' idea

2002-12-17 Thread Phil Lavigna
Hi, When speaking with Chris Molnar the other day about his difficulty installing PPC Cooker, I realized that 'gendistrib' (the command to generate a package list) requires a Mandrake machine to work on. Lots of people might be running other Linux distros but would like to try Cooker PPC.

Re: 'gendistrib' idea

2002-12-17 Thread Stew Benedict
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Phil Lavigna wrote: Hi, When speaking with Chris Molnar the other day about his difficulty installing PPC Cooker, I realized that 'gendistrib' (the command to generate a package list) requires a Mandrake machine to work on. Lots of people might be running other

Re: 'gendistrib' idea

2002-12-17 Thread Phil Lavigna
Hi Stew, On Tuesday 17 December 2002 06:00 pm, Stew Benedict wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Phil Lavigna wrote: -- snip -- I theory, gendistrib has been run on the mirror sources, but we all pretty much know the reality of the ppc mirrors. The ssh idea is interesting, but I'm not sure how

Re: Mirror Abuse!

2002-12-16 Thread Ben Reser
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 12:48:23AM -0800, Ben Reser wrote: Some people have been abusing my mirror by making multiple connections (as many as 8) and downloading different hunks of the same thing. Using up all of my available bandwidth. One individual I caught doing this tonight has been

The good old days!

2002-12-16 Thread Jonathan C. Sitte
I remember when you could download full iso disks of the best at that point in time cooker installs. Usually two to three disks. I know people think that cooker gets updated allot thus you don't have this for the time being. It would be nice though if someone did release a really good Cooker

Re: The good old days!

2002-12-16 Thread Ben Reser
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 02:14:30AM -0500, Jonathan C. Sitte wrote: I remember when you could download full iso disks of the best at that point in time cooker installs. Usually two to three disks. I know people think that cooker gets updated allot thus you don't have this for the time being.

Mirror Abuse!

2002-12-15 Thread Ben Reser
Some people have been abusing my mirror by making multiple connections (as many as 8) and downloading different hunks of the same thing. Using up all of my available bandwidth. One individual I caught doing this tonight has been blocked from accessing my mirror. (It's unfortunate for him I

Re: New Installer on Nov 02 PBG4

2002-12-14 Thread Christian Walther
kernel-benh-2.4.20-1mdk.ppc.rpm Works mostly fine. Only troubles so far were: o When installing it with urpmi, it complains about unresolved symbols in lib/modules/2.4.20-benh-1mdk/kernel/net/sunrpc/sunrpc.o o When booting it for the first time, it complains about not being able to write to

Re: New Installer on Nov 02 PBG4

2002-12-14 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Christian Walther wrote: kernel-benh-2.4.20-1mdk.ppc.rpm Works mostly fine. Only troubles so far were: o When installing it with urpmi, it complains about unresolved symbols in lib/modules/2.4.20-benh-1mdk/kernel/net/sunrpc/sunrpc.o hmm - I'll try to fix that.

Re: New Installer on Nov 02 PBG4

2002-12-13 Thread Christian Walther
OK - so it sounds like we need the radeon driver from Ben's kernel, or an alternate kernel. I've been putting together an alternative Benh-Mdk kernel, which I think I'll provide as an alternative install/system kernel. Would you like to test it? Sure. Just tell me where to get it.

Re: New Installer on Nov 02 PBG4

2002-12-13 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Christian Walther wrote: OK - so it sounds like we need the radeon driver from Ben's kernel, or an alternate kernel. I've been putting together an alternative Benh-Mdk kernel, which I think I'll provide as an alternative install/system kernel. Would you like to test

PPC User Statistics - FYI

2002-12-13 Thread Stew Benedict
Don't know if non-members can get to this or not, but it appears that activity in Mandrake Club will be one of the gauges of interest in Mandrake PPC: http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Splatt_Forumfile=viewtopictopic=1818forum=8 Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ:

PPC powerbook wallstreet 1 sucess with mdk 8.2

2002-12-13 Thread Brent Hasty
I managed a bootX installation of 8.2 on my PPC powerbook wallstreet 1, a few hitches, like no support for ext3 partitions. Is there a limit to how many extended partitions I have ex: hda15? I would like to work with you guys on cooker 9.0 or 9.1 ppc, Though I have not been able to find where

Re: PPC powerbook wallstreet 1 sucess with mdk 8.2

2002-12-13 Thread Ben Reser
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:38:42AM -0800, Brent Hasty wrote: I managed a bootX installation of 8.2 on my PPC powerbook wallstreet 1, a few hitches, like no support for ext3 partitions. Is there a limit to how many extended partitions I have ex: hda15? I would like to work with you guys on

Re: PPC powerbook wallstreet 1 sucess with mdk 8.2

2002-12-13 Thread Brent Hasty
On Friday 13 December 2002 11:07 am, Ben Reser wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:38:42AM -0800, Brent Hasty wrote: I managed a bootX installation of 8.2 on my PPC powerbook wallstreet 1, a few hitches, like no support for ext3 partitions. Is there a limit to how many extended partitions I

Re: PPC powerbook wallstreet 1 sucess with mdk 8.2

2002-12-13 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: On Friday 13 December 2002 11:07 am, Ben Reser wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:38:42AM -0800, Brent Hasty wrote: I managed a bootX installation of 8.2 on my PPC powerbook wallstreet 1, a few hitches, like no support for ext3 partitions. Is

Re: PPC powerbook wallstreet 1 sucess with mdk 8.2

2002-12-13 Thread Jeroen van Drie
As mentioned prior, I have been having trouble acessing the mdk cooker ppc mirrors. Rumour has it this site is pretty good: ftp.sune.se ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/cooker/ppc :)

Re: PPC powerbook wallstreet 1 sucess with mdk 8.2

2002-12-13 Thread Sylvain GIL
On Friday 13 December 2002 21:40, Stew Benedict wrote: Rumour has it this site is pretty good: ftp.sune.se Other mirrors I use : France: ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/ppc/ USA: ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/ppc/ -- Sylvain.

Re: MBOOT 2.0

2002-12-13 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Marco Rodrigues wrote: i've made some changes on the boot script to allow booting by clicking on a boot disk. Thanks Marco, One of these days I'll get some time to check your work out. Sounds quite interesting. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ:

Re: Interface Hang with 2.4.18 kernel

2002-12-11 Thread Craig Miller
Ben, Well I guess it is a good thing that you see it on other apps as well. I think it has to do with putting the interface in promiscious mode, and then switching it back (to regular mode). Something isn't right when it gets set back. I agree you method is more of a work-around than a

Re: Interface Hang with 2.4.18 kernel

2002-12-11 Thread Ben Reser
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:12:27PM -0500, Craig Miller wrote: Well I guess it is a good thing that you see it on other apps as well. I think it has to do with putting the interface in promiscious mode, and then switching it back (to regular mode). Something isn't right when it gets set

Interface Hang with 2.4.18 kernel

2002-12-10 Thread Craig Miller
Hi Fellow Mandrake PPC-ers, Has anyone noticed the ethernet interface hanging (it can not receive packets) after putting the interface into promiscious mode (such as with Ethereal). The interface seems to work while in promiscious mode, but after quiting Ethereal (TCPDump, ngrep) the interface

Re: Interface Hang with 2.4.18 kernel

2002-12-10 Thread Ben Reser
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:18:13AM -0500, Craig Miller wrote: Has anyone noticed the ethernet interface hanging (it can not receive packets) after putting the interface into promiscious mode (such as with Ethereal). The interface seems to work while in promiscious mode, but after quiting

Re: Interface Hang with 2.4.18 kernel

2002-12-10 Thread Ben Reser
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:09:30AM -0800, Ben Reser wrote: I've had problems with nmap hanging my airport interface but that's it. The solution I've found is to ifdown the interface. rmmod the modules related to them. Then ifup the interface again. And it should start working again.

Newbie to Linux on PPC

2002-12-10 Thread Brent Hasty
I have been using Linux for a few years now and the new excitment for me is the arrival of a powerbook wallstreet I will be attempting to setup MDK 8.2 PPC on. I am eager to see how Linux runs in a RISC enviroment. As this is my first time working with a PPC any tips or suggestions are

Compact Flash cards

2002-12-09 Thread Nick Texidor
Hi, I'm trying to mount a 128mg Compact Flash card in my powerbook.. however I'm not having much luck. Can anyone shed some light on how I may mount it please? I'm running MDK 8.2. Thanks N -- Nick Texidor Technical Director Webbods Pty Ltd eml: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web:

update problems...still

2002-12-09 Thread Ian Davidson
I'm having problems using the Software Control centre to update my 8.2release. Every single rpm file it tries to install comes up with an error... I've managed to add an additional source to the CC, using the urpmi.addmedia command but can't go any further with updates. There must be an easy

[Fwd: update problems...still]

2002-12-09 Thread Ian Davidson
Update: running urpmi manually it appears that the 4x source directories I'm pointing to don't have the relevant .ppc.rpm files in them What's a reliable on to use? I've seen a few suggestions posted already (which I'm using)...but obviously they are behind the times? Ian -Forwarded

Re: [Fwd: update problems...still]

2002-12-09 Thread Stew Benedict
1st off, did the list change? I seem to have to jump through hoops now to reply to anything and get it to go to the list. On 9 Dec 2002, Ian Davidson wrote: Update: running urpmi manually it appears that the 4x source directories I'm pointing to don't have the relevant .ppc.rpm files in

Re: [Fwd: update problems...still]

2002-12-09 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:03:17PM -0500, Stew Benedict wrote: 1st off, did the list change? I seem to have to jump through hoops now to reply to anything and get it to go to the list. No problems here.. -- Ben Reser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ben.reser.org If you're not making any mistakes,

Re: [Fwd: update problems...still]

2002-12-09 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Ben Reser wrote: On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:03:17PM -0500, Stew Benedict wrote: 1st off, did the list change? I seem to have to jump through hoops now to reply to anything and get it to go to the list. No problems here.. Your reply was fine. Most of the others

Re: [Fwd: update problems...still]

2002-12-09 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:33:26PM -0500, Stew Benedict wrote: Your reply was fine. Most of the others I've been responding to have some other Reply To: set. The list works like so: No reply-to header in the message the reply-to is set to the list. If there is a reply-to in the header the

Re: New installer ISO

2002-12-08 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Christopher Molnar wrote: Hmmm I wonder what it would take in $$$'s contribution to MandrakeSoft for someone to build a set of install ISO's (that work) from Cooker-PPC? I am sure there are several users like me who would like to go to cooker, but have been

Re: New installer ISO

2002-12-08 Thread Christopher Molnar
Hard drive space is not the major problem I have a local mirror of cooker that is updated constantly. I'll tell you what the problem that I am running into is... Your install ISO is great, however it seems there is a mismatch between the modules that are in cooker mdkinst/lib. Here is a

Re: New installer ISO

2002-12-08 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Christopher Molnar wrote: Hard drive space is not the major problem I have a local mirror of cooker that is updated constantly. I'll tell you what the problem that I am running into is... Your install ISO is great, however it seems there is a mismatch between the

Re: New installer ISO

2002-12-08 Thread Phil Lavigna
Hi Chris, On Sunday 08 December 2002 02:54 pm, Christopher Molnar wrote: Hard drive space is not the major problem I have a local mirror of cooker that is updated constantly. -- snip -- I am also always getting a message about a mismatched depslist to hdlist. I am not sure if the

Re: Re: New installer report

2002-12-08 Thread Phil Lavigna
Hi, On Sunday 08 December 2002 09:26 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW -- The default interface font for OpenOffice is bad; I can't read any of the menus or windows. Change de default fons andale... with times. The blind way: 1- tools/option/openoffice.org/fonts substitions/ or (4th menu

MBOOT - multi boot is working :)

2002-12-08 Thread Marco Rodrigues
it's now working fine it boots from all screen choices u can setup the firmware (prog button on restart) to: setenv boot-command screen output boot hd:9,mboot.of :) -- 10Mb na sua caixa de email gratuita no mail.pt http://www.mail.pt mboot.of Description: Binary data

Re: New installer report

2002-12-07 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Phil Lavigna wrote: Hi, I didn't wait for the new kernel, but here's a short report about a new Recommended Installation from the new ISO image and today's RPMs from ftp.ciril.fr. You didn't get mkinitrd errors? I guess you got lucky :) The new

Re: New installer report

2002-12-07 Thread Ben Reser
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 06:57:04AM -0500, Stew Benedict wrote: This should have been setup by alternatives. [root@powerbook root]# ls -l /usr/sbin/xinetd lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 24 Oct 24 22:05 /usr/sbin/xinetd - /etc/alternatives/xinetd* [root@powerbook root]# ls -l

Re: New installer ISO

2002-12-06 Thread Patrick Ladam
Hi stew, Silly question, but I just want to make sure I get it correctly: this iso is for upgrading from 8.2 to 9.1 not for an install from scratch right? Bye -- -- | Patrick LADAM |

Re: New installer ISO

2002-12-06 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Patrick Ladam wrote: Hi stew, Silly question, but I just want to make sure I get it correctly: this iso is for upgrading from 8.2 to 9.1 not for an install from scratch right? Well, you could theoretically do either, but 8.2-9.x upgrade may be a reach, I haven't

MBOOT (testing new boot script)

2002-12-06 Thread Marco Rodrigues
Hi i'm trying to put this boot stuff to work any help would be fine :) to run the test: - install mboot on a bootstrap partition - edit mboot file and change this line hd:10(00)hd:9(00)cd:9(00) bootable-devices $setenv - with valid boot devices - u can change the 5 second timer by

New installer report

2002-12-06 Thread Phil Lavigna
Hi, I didn't wait for the new kernel, but here's a short report about a new Recommended Installation from the new ISO image and today's RPMs from ftp.ciril.fr. The new 'install-gui' looked and worked nice on a 550MHz TiBook. Just some minor cosmetic things: 1) The installer uses 1024 x

Re: Re-installing yaboot from an existing Linux

2002-12-05 Thread Patrick Ladam
Stew Benedict wrote: If rescue doesn't do so for you, mount your linux partition under /mnt and then chroot to it, then run ybin. Something like: mount /dev/hda11 /mnt chroot /mnt ybin -v exit umount /mnt reboot You will probably see a complaint about /proc not being mounted. If your

Re: Graphical Install on 1280x854 Powerbook?

2002-12-05 Thread Christian Walther
clock : 667MHz bogomips: 665.19 (That 667MHz puzzles me. This machine is supposed to run at 867MHz - is this some power saving feature that only MacOS knows how to turn off?) I wouldn't sweat the bogomips, it's not all that reliable anyway. I wasn't referring to the

REJECTED: galeon-1.3.0-1mdk.ppc.rpm rejected (fwd)

2002-12-05 Thread Stew Benedict
Available at: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/ Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcr=1w=2 -- Forwarded message

Re: Graphical Install on 1280x854 Powerbook?

2002-12-05 Thread Christian Walther
Hmm, cat /proc/fb should also be informative. Here: 0 OFfb /pci@f000/ATY,XiaParent@10/ATY, I can't make much sense of this, can you? Looks like your booting with some video=ofonly arguments or something? o An excerpt from dmesg: ... Using unsupported 1280x854 ATY,Xia_A at

Re: Graphical Install on 1280x854 Powerbook?

2002-12-05 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Christian Walther wrote: Hmm, cat /proc/fb should also be informative. Here: 0 OFfb /pci@f000/ATY,XiaParent@10/ATY, I can't make much sense of this, can you? Looks like your booting with some video=ofonly arguments or something? o An excerpt

New installer ISO

2002-12-05 Thread Stew Benedict
I've built up a new installer ISO, which Ben is graciosly hosting again at: http://mirror.brain.org/linux/mandrake/Mandrake-ppc/cooker-install-iso/ 354aeb31682c557510daa57be3e2ce14 /home/stew/9.x-ppc-cooker-install-2.iso There is also a 9.x-ppc-cooker-install-2.iso.sig generated from my gpg

Re: Interesting? FWB Ships Partition Toolkit Version 1.0 with Partition Resizing

2002-12-05 Thread Generation NeXT
Yep. Everyone knows that. However, the driver would be a way to sport software RAID throughout all OSes (Linux, MacOS, Mac OS X, etc.). There's also the feature to decrypt/encrypt the drive at the block storage driver level in the ROM, outside of the OS. I like that one, but this brings up a

Re: Evolution 1.0.3 package

2002-12-05 Thread Jeroen Diederen
Ian Davidson wrote: Does anyone still have the Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 package which Stew Benedict built a while back? Is it possible to build the 1.2 package from the source? on my cooker-computer, evolution-1.2.0-3mdk is installed.

Linux in school

2002-12-04 Thread Barry Hertzberg
Fellow BCLUG members, This morning around 7:30 AM it was my pleasure to have a 5th grade student step up to a dilapidated old Rev A iMac and see a black textured screen. What's this? It's called Black box. It's like the other computers in here but it's better. It will let you do more things.

Re: Linux in school

2002-12-04 Thread Stew Benedict
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Barry Hertzberg wrote: Fellow BCLUG members, This morning around 7:30 AM it was my pleasure to have a 5th grade student step up to a dilapidated old Rev A iMac and see a black textured screen. What's this? It's called Black box. It's like the other computers in

Re-installing yaboot from an existing Linux

2002-12-04 Thread Patrick Ladam
Hi Stew, I have 3 hard drives on my G3. The first one used to have OSX, a bootstrap partition for yaboot and OS9. This drive got really sick (invalid sibling link) and I had to reformat it. The second drive contains MDK 8.2. My question is: how can I re-install yaboot from my still existing

Re: Re-installing yaboot from an existing Linux

2002-12-04 Thread Brice Figureau
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 00:29, Patrick Ladam wrote: My question is: how can I re-install yaboot from my still existing MDK distro? I tried the rescue mode with the install CD to launch ybin but a bunch of binaries used by ybin (hfsutils among others) are not found. Then I edited the ybin script

Re: Re-installing yaboot from an existing Linux

2002-12-04 Thread Stew Benedict
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Patrick Ladam wrote: Hi Stew, I have 3 hard drives on my G3. The first one used to have OSX, a bootstrap partition for yaboot and OS9. This drive got really sick (invalid sibling link) and I had to reformat it. The second drive contains MDK 8.2. My question

Re: Re-installing yaboot from an existing Linux

2002-12-04 Thread Patrick Ladam
Stew Benedict wrote: If rescue doesn't do so for you, mount your linux partition under /mnt and then chroot to it, then run ybin. Something like: mount /dev/hda11 /mnt chroot /mnt ybin -v exit umount /mnt reboot You will probably see a complaint about /proc not being mounted. If your

iBook Mandrake install/boot issue

2002-12-04 Thread Ian Davidson
Hi all, [While in the process of downloading 8.2] I've tried installing 8.0 on an iBook, the install goes fine until the boot-loader finishes installing when it shows the message about needing to hold down Cmd-Option-O-F at boot up and and type in setenv boot-device hd:2,\\:tbxi shut-down I do

Re: iBook Mandrake install/boot issue

2002-12-04 Thread Stew Benedict
On 4 Dec 2002, Ian Davidson wrote: Hi all, [While in the process of downloading 8.2] I've tried installing 8.0 on an iBook, the install goes fine until the boot-loader finishes installing when it shows the message about needing to hold down Cmd-Option-O-F at boot up and and type in

I'm up and it's all good

2002-12-03 Thread Barry Hertzberg
Mandrake PPC 8.2 running with the blackbox GUI on my iMAC. Damn that was hard. Now i can try to learn some of that CLI stuff. -- Barry M. Hertzberg, TTL Wm. Loesche School Information Technology Lab 595 Tomlinson Road Philadelphia, PA 19116 (215) 961-2519 (voice) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I'm up and it's all good

2002-12-03 Thread Harald T Zipko
Hello Barry Hertzberg and PPC-Users, ... Damn that was hard. Now i can try to learn some of that CLI stuff. CLI? Please explain, I do not think th at you are talking about something like Cyberspace Law Institute http://www.cli.org/ ;) Greetings Harald -- (o- Best regards //\ Harald T

Re: I'm up and it's all good

2002-12-03 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Harald T Zipko wrote: HTZ CLI? Please explain, I do not think th at you are talking HTZ about something like Cyberspace Law Institute HTZ http://www.cli.org/ ;) Command Line Interface. The shell on the Amiga was called the CLI. -- Corporations are like cockroaches.

Re: Graphical Install on 1280x854 Powerbook?

2002-12-02 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Christian Walther wrote: There is radeon support for the card/display in the first TiBooks that used radeon, that was the latest machine ( th eLCD iMac) at the time 8.2 was created. I have an Xconfig for the 1280x854 if you want it, but I don't think it will help you

Re: XFree86 and iMac with ATI Rage 128 (fwd)

2002-12-02 Thread Jeroen Diederen
I saw a little error, this is the correction: Option UseFBDev true Stew Benedict wrote: FYI Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcr=1w=2

Re: Graphical Install on 1280x854 Powerbook?

2002-12-02 Thread Christian Walther
If you happen to be up and running, could you post the output of: cat /proc/cpuinfo I'm halfways up and running. Enough to have a look at cpuinfo. Here: cpu : 7455, altivec supported temperature : 53 C (uncalibrated) clock : 667MHz revision: 3.2 (pvr 8001

Re: Graphical Install on 1280x854 Powerbook?

2002-12-02 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Christian Walther wrote: If you happen to be up and running, could you post the output of: cat /proc/cpuinfo I'm halfways up and running. Enough to have a look at cpuinfo. Here: cpu : 7455, altivec supported temperature : 53 C (uncalibrated) clock

Re: sendmail is slow

2002-12-02 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Geenen wrote on Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 05:16:49PM +0100 : BTW - your mailer is overriding the Reply To: for the list so I have to reply to all recipients for my answers to hit the list. This a kmail pb, some poeple said me the same thing

Re: Interesting? FWB Ships Partition Toolkit Version 1.0 with Partition Resizing

2002-12-02 Thread Generation NeXT
That would depend though on what MOL access. Does MOL have a virtual drive, or does it access the whole drive. Will low level memory mapped routines work? In otherwords does MOL work raw, or is this run in a protected environment. Can programs access partition map through MOL? --- Bob Sloots

Re: Interesting? FWB Ships Partition Toolkit Version 1.0 with Partition Resizing

2002-12-02 Thread Generation NeXT
This is the resizer tool: http://www.fwb.com/html/partition_toolkit.html This is the general formatting, software RAID support: http://www.fwb.com/html/hard_disk_toolkit.html Can LinuxPPC do RAID? The Mac drivers are wierd in that they load at startup before the OS is loaded. Each writable

Re: Interesting? FWB Ships Partition Toolkit Version 1.0 withPartition Resizing

2002-12-02 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Generation NeXT wrote: This is the resizer tool: http://www.fwb.com/html/partition_toolkit.html This is the general formatting, software RAID support: http://www.fwb.com/html/hard_disk_toolkit.html Can LinuxPPC do RAID? The Mac drivers are wierd in Linux has

MBOOT: graphical multi boot

2002-12-01 Thread Marco Rodrigues
Hi this boot tool uses open firmware and yaboot to allow multi boot startup choice see the mboot.tar for instalation happy booting :) -- 10Mb na sua caixa de email gratuita no mail.pt http://www.mail.pt mboot.tar Description: Binary data

Re: ooffice

2002-11-29 Thread Gwenole Beauchesne
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Stew Benedict wrote: Also oopadmin (openoffice setup program) is missing from my install, one of its things is font installation:) I thought the admin program was spadmin? spadmin is here indeed for spool administration, mostly printer setup. But we have

Re: Graphical Install on 1280x854 Powerbook?

2002-11-29 Thread Christian Walther
There is radeon support for the card/display in the first TiBooks that used radeon, that was the latest machine ( th eLCD iMac) at the time 8.2 was created. I have an Xconfig for the 1280x854 if you want it, but I don't think it will help you in terms of the install. Yes, there have also been

Re: drakconf

2002-11-29 Thread Jeroen Diederen
Hi all, Can someone provide me an XF86Config-4 for Mandrake 8.2 with an 16'' Apple Colour Display. This monitor is connected to a PowerMac 7500. I have a person on my website who has difficulties getting X to work properly. He said that X only used half of his monitor screen. Jeroen

Apple Studio Display 16''

2002-11-29 Thread Jeroen Diederen
Hi all, Can someone provide me an XF86Config-4 for Mandrake 8.2 with an 16'' Apple Colour Display. This monitor is connected to a PowerMac 7500. I have a person on my website who has difficulties getting X to work properly. He said that X only used half of his monitor screen. Jeroen

Re: Interesting? FWB Ships Partition Toolkit Version 1.0 with Partition Resizing

2002-11-29 Thread Bob Sloots
Where did you read that? On the site in the section System requirements (down, on the right). Maybe they updated this recently... Yeah, it's the first app that does this for HFS and HFS+ partions! I wonder if it works in Classic, MacOnLinux (probably not?) or if it's in Carbon? I would

Re: Interesting? FWB Ships Partition Toolkit Version 1.0 with Partition Resizing

2002-11-29 Thread Ernst Persson
Where did you read that? On the site in the section System requirements (down, on the right). Maybe they updated this recently... Ok, I found it too... must be a typo? I trust the pressrelease. Yeah, it's the first app that does this for HFS and HFS+ partions! I wonder if it works in

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