Thanks

2003-08-14 Thread Alex Thurgood
Hi all, I would just like to say thanks to everyone who helped me get 8.2 up and running on my old world G3. Some people at work seem to be starting to like it, so at least that's encouraging for the switch for the other newer machines. Alex -- Alex Thurgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ethernet Card Recognition under PPC 8.2 on OldWorld G3

2003-07-26 Thread Alex Thurgood
understand a bit more and find it easier going. Alex -- Alex Thurgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ethernet Card Recognition under PPC 8.2 on OldWorld G3

2003-07-25 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le jeu 24/07/2003 à 17:55, Stew Benedict a écrit : Still using the installer stuff. There should be system kernels and initrds in the BootX folder on the CD - no? (memeory is fading on 8.2, and I don't have a disk handy). Yep. I copied these (well I had to unstuff the img initrd file

Re: Ethernet Card Recognition under PPC 8.2 on OldWorld G3

2003-07-24 Thread Alex Thurgood
this doesn't actually exist at all. My question then is this : where can I change the path to the correct modules.dep file ? Do I have to use depmod and specify the path ? If so, how do I get that to work on every boot ? Alex. -- Alex Thurgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ethernet Card Recognition under PPC 8.2 on OldWorld G3

2003-07-24 Thread Alex Thurgood
(unless I'm missing something obvious here). Alex. -- Alex Thurgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ethernet Card Recognition under PPC 8.2 on OldWorld G3

2003-07-20 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le dim 20/07/2003 à 13:17, Christiaan Welvaart a écrit : On 18 Jul 2003, Alex Thurgood wrote: Internel ethernet on beige G3s is called bmac. That's odd. When I click on the configuration tool in the Hardware section of DrakConf, this is what it displays as the module, but the configuration

Re: Sound not working with 8.2 and OldWorld G3

2003-07-20 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le dim 20/07/2003 à 13:37, Christiaan Welvaart a écrit : On 18 Jul 2003, Alex Thurgood wrote: Hi all, Sound doesn't seem to working or recognized by the installation of 8.2 on my G3 OldWorld. Any pointers, hints, etc ? I get the best results with ALSA, but I don't know if the version

Ethernet Card Recognition under PPC 8.2 on OldWorld G3

2003-07-18 Thread Alex Thurgood
of module I should be trying to load via DrakConf (pref. with parameters, if any). TIA, Alex -- Alex Thurgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]

8.2 PPC CD1 and CD2 not recognized file systems

2003-07-18 Thread Alex Thurgood
the console, an error message is given that the file system type of the CD is incorrect. What does this mean ? Is there something wrong with my fstab config, or is there something wrong with the CDs ? Any help gratefully accepted. Alex -- Alex Thurgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sound not working with 8.2 and OldWorld G3

2003-07-18 Thread Alex Thurgood
Hi all, Sound doesn't seem to working or recognized by the installation of 8.2 on my G3 OldWorld. Any pointers, hints, etc ? Alex

Re: Install PPC 8.2 on beige G3

2003-07-14 Thread Alex Thurgood
the difference between pmac and the supplied ATI driver module ? It appears that it didn't want to play with my ATI settings. TIA, Alex -- Alex Thurgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Install PPC 8.2 on beige G3

2003-07-11 Thread Alex Thurgood
installing the Mandrake Linux Install.sit file, from CD, or copying to disk and then starting. In both cases, I get the error message The application Mandrake Linux Install.sit can not be opened because an error of type -39 has occurred. I all out of ideas ? Any advice ? Alex -- Alex Thurgood [EMAIL

Re: Install PPC 8.2 on beige G3

2003-07-11 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le ven 11/07/2003 à 15:01, Christian Walther a écrit : I even tried installing the Mandrake Linux Install.sit file, from CD, or copying to disk and then starting. In both cases, I get the error message The application Mandrake Linux Install.sit can not be opened because an error of type

Re: Install PPC 8.2 on beige G3

2003-07-11 Thread Alex Thurgood
(as with the other MDK installs on other platforms), but when the graphical interface comes up for the install, the screen is corrupted : monochrome, huge text, buttons displaced, impossible to select anything. Is there a way around this other than via a text install ? Alex. -- Alex Thurgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Install PPC 8.2 on beige G3

2003-07-11 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le ven 11/07/2003 à 15:35, Alex Thurgood a écrit : You were right about the install scripts, they didn't work. I started BootX and chose all.gz as the ramdisk, and set the value to 34000. The installation starts, asks for the install media, chose CDROM. THen the program starts to load from

Re: Install PPC 8.2 on beige G3

2003-07-11 Thread Alex Thurgood
the rest free with the Mac disk utility tool and am going to try again. Alex. -- Alex Thurgood [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Install 8.2 PPC on a 3400C

2003-02-08 Thread Alex Thurgood
, Alex THurgood

Re: Alive?

2003-01-04 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le ven 03/01/2003 à 21:38, Rick Thomas a écrit : I signed up for Mandrake Club Silver membership and my credit card was charged (almost immediately) on December 22nd. It's been well over a week and I've heard nothing from Mandrake about a nickname or password. Has anybody else had this