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)
our site. Also, are these the same kernel/initrd that I will use after installation, or is there another set? Peter Peter R. Wood (Lists) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/ Peter R. Wood (Lists) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/

8.2 installer initrd fails on supermac

2002-05-25 Thread Peter R. Wood (Lists)
ard drives and the cdrom are on the internal bus. Peter Peter R. Wood (Lists) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/

Re: mozilla segfault + april 15 packages

2002-04-18 Thread Peter R. Wood - Lists
0.16.0-1mdk libgdk-pixbuf2-0.16.0-1mdk libgdk-pixbuf-xlib2-0.16.0-1mdk This also did not alleviate the problem... Peter -- Peter R. Wood (Lists) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://prwdot.org/

mozilla segfault + april 15 packages

2002-04-18 Thread Peter R. Wood - Lists
replacing them with the ones from 8.2b2, but the segfault seems to have stuck. Any ideas on what has changed in these new packages that might cause mozilla to segfault on startup? Nothing in my environment has changed other than these packages from April 15. Thanks, Peter -- Peter R. Wood (Lists

Re: 8.2 PPC Beta2 out...

2002-03-27 Thread Peter R. Wood (Lists)
Ah, I was just able to get on ftp.orst.edu , downloading both ISO's at once, around 50 KB/s each over cable modem. Maybe tomorrow I'll be able to burn the ISO's. :-) Peter - Original Message - From: "John C. Tull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 200

Re: 8.2 PPC Beta2 out...

2002-03-27 Thread Peter R. Wood (Lists)
Arrgh, and all the US servers overloaded. :-( > Le Mercredi 27 Mars 2002 17:28, vous avez écrit : > > just incase you don't go to mandrake.com every day, the new beta is out > > there.. > > mike

Re: trying to add cooker media to mandrake 8.0

2002-03-20 Thread Peter R. Wood (Lists)
OK, thanks. I'll try this. On a similar note, is there a place from which I can rsync the latest cooker packages? Peter

trying to add cooker media to mandrake 8.0

2002-03-20 Thread Peter R. Wood (Lists)
Hi all, I've got a Mandrake 8.0 ppc system which I'd like to upgrade to some of the packages in cooker-ppc. I'm trying to use the version of urpmi to add media, but it doesn't seem to like the hdlist files that are on the server: [root@wintermute root]# urpmi.addmedia cooker-ppc ftp://ftp.rpmfi

Re: Updating software via urpmi (WAS install report)

2002-03-12 Thread Peter R. Wood (Lists)
Ok, I have answered my own question again. Here is the command I used, this time building a successful media list: urpmi.addmedia --distrib ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/coo ker/ppc/Mandrake/ This automatically gets the hdlists, etc. Peter

Updating software via urpmi (WAS install report)

2002-03-12 Thread Peter R. Wood (Lists)
> Is there any text-based way to automagically pull in new packages from the > mirrors? I have somewhat answered my own question - I have found urpmi, and found out about urpmi.addmedia to let me add a source. But I'm not exactly sure what URL I need to put in. My guess is: urpmi.addmedia ftp://

Re: [LONG] Full(er) install report on 8.2 beta

2002-03-12 Thread Peter R. Wood (Lists)
> Thanks for the report. > Stew Benedict Is there any text-based way to automagically pull in new packages from the mirrors? I have an ssh connection to my home box from work so I figured I might try updating some things. I can't pull in too much though, I only have 320 megs left on the hdd. :-(

[LONG] Full(er) install report on 8.2 beta

2002-03-12 Thread Peter R. Wood (Lists)
Greetings Cookers, Here is the longer installation report I promised. This is not intended to try and solve my problems; rather, it is for reference in the list archives and for information to the developers. I have not made any attempts to fix the problems I encountered (obviously I will do this

8.2 beta installed on Pismo

2002-03-11 Thread Peter R. Wood (Lists)
Hi all, Just wanted to drop a quick note that I got Mandrake 8.2 beta installed via cd from ISO's. Things are working more or less. I will get more details when I have time to sit down and write up a detailed report. My system: PowerBook G3 "Firewire" aka Pismo. 400 MHz G3, 320 megs ram, 10 g

working triple-boot? please email

2002-03-06 Thread Peter R. Wood (Lists)
Greetings, If anyone has a working triple-boot set up on a NewWorld machine as follows, please email me *off-list* and let me know how you got it to work: MacOS X MacOS 9 Mandrake 8.x PPC I have successfully done OSX + OS9, and OS9 + Mandrake, but I can't seem to get all three to work together.