Re: 7300 SCSI not recognized

2002-04-16 Thread John C. Tull
I have had this problem. Solution that I use: choose hard disk as your install method. Then choose the appropriate driver (mesh) when you are prompted. Simply hit cancel when your drive shows up. If you are missing drives (external for instance), choose the mac53c94 driver as well. Cancel out

inird-2.4.18-6mdk.img fails on oldworld

2002-03-29 Thread John C. Tull
I have installed 8.2b2 on a 7300 with a G3 upgrade card and on a PowerComputing 7200-based clone with a G3 upgrade. On both machines, switching bootX over to the vmlinuz-2.4.18-6mdk kernel, using the initrd-2.4.18-6mdk.img in options, setting root=/dev/sdb5, and booting up results in Kernel

Re: 8.2 PPC Beta2 out...

2002-03-27 Thread John C. Tull
I was able to get mine off of the Oregon State server with no problem. Use an ftp program and login as anonymous with email password. Seems to have more slots than purely anonymous ftp. From there to University of Nevada, Reno, I was able to sustain a 500+ kbps transfer. Took about 30 minutes

Mirror confidence

2002-03-25 Thread John C. Tull
In light of the discussion on Mandrake issues, and the subsequent response of the CEO, I was interested in finding out a couple things: Can we expect that Stew's mirror problems (no removal of files, etc.) to end in the near future (have they already)? Specifically, when can we hope to be

Re: ppp failure on oldworld

2002-03-07 Thread John C. Tull
not had time to troubleshoot the modem in the past 36 hours, but once it works I will report my results and solution for others that may run into the same problem. John On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 03:45 PM, Stew Benedict wrote: On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, John C. Tull wrote: The kernel

ppp failure on oldworld

2002-03-05 Thread John C. Tull
After banging my head to build a kernel with support for both scsi (why can this not be in the default install kernel?) and aty128 this past weekend (from install cd, mount /sdc5 /mnt then mount -t hfs /dev/sdb6 /mnt/mnt -- interesting trick to get files from boot partition to hfs partition

Gnome? in beta1

2002-03-05 Thread John C. Tull
Is Gnome absolutely dead in 82 b1? I cannot successfully bring up a gnome session from xdm login Instead, my X-session seemingly restarts itself (gray screen, black X after a moment of screen darkness, then xdm again) KDE works fine Similarly, gnumeric and some other gnome-based apps will not

Re: ppp failure on oldworld

2002-03-05 Thread John C. Tull
On Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at 01:58 PM, Stew Benedict wrote: On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, John C Tull wrote: After banging my head to build a kernel with support for both scsi (why can this not be in the default install kernel?) and aty128 this past weekend (from install cd, mount /sdc5 /mnt

Re: Gnome? in beta1

2002-03-05 Thread John C. Tull
Once I get my modem problems slugged out I will try installing these Did you use rpm to install or a GUI? Mandrake install (not sure what the package installer GUI is really called as I am on a Mac OS X machine currently) was causing me some real grief Cheers, John On Tuesday, March 5, 2002,

Re: ppp failure on oldworld

2002-03-05 Thread John C. Tull
that the Pre-Init and Post-Init delays are up to 100 instead of 50. (This was the thing that got kppp dialing for me) Nick On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 08:44, John C. Tull wrote: After banging my head to build a kernel with support for both scsi (why can this not be in the default install kernel