Re: Install PPC 8.2 on beige G3

2003-07-16 Thread Stew Benedict
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Philippe legay wrote: Alex Thurgood wrote: 1) when you create the accounts initially, the keyboard is mapped with US style mappings (I think, but would anyone care to confirm), but when you reboot, the mappings are changed to the locale you have selected - in my

Re: Install PPC 8.2 on beige G3

2003-07-14 Thread Philippe legay
Stew Benedict wrote: On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le ven 11/07/2003 à 17:28, Stew Benedict a écrit : Yes, BootX does all it's work from the MacOS side. kernels and initrd's for the installed system are provided. Did you delete your MacOS partition or something?

Re: Install PPC 8.2 on beige G3

2003-07-14 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Philippe legay wrote: Stew Benedict wrote: Yes, exactly. If you install BootX into the system folder, you can set the default to either roll into MacOS or Linux, but you'll always be a bit of the way into MacOS before that happens. Just to avoid mistake,

Re: Install PPC 8.2 on beige G3

2003-07-14 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le ven 11/07/2003 à 19:11, Stew Benedict a écrit : Yes, exactly. If you install BootX into the system folder, you can set the default to either roll into MacOS or Linux, but you'll always be a bit of the way into MacOS before that happens. Ok, finally got it to install, but I now have two

Re: Install PPC 8.2 on beige G3

2003-07-14 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Alex Thurgood wrote: Ok, finally got it to install, but I now have two problems : 1) when you create the accounts initially, the keyboard is mapped with US style mappings (I think, but would anyone care to confirm), but when you reboot, the mappings are changed to the

Install PPC 8.2 on beige G3

2003-07-11 Thread Alex Thurgood
Hi all, I'm trying to install PPC 8.2 from the Mandrake CDs on a beige G3. I've got 1.5 Gig free space on the disk drive, and 256 Mb ram. Although I've read the readme.html file in the doc folder on the CD, nothing I've tried so far has got the machine to boot from the CD. I've tried simply

Re: Install PPC 8.2 on beige G3

2003-07-11 Thread Christian Walther
I've tried simply pressing and holding C after turning on the switch. I've tried Command-C, Alt-C, Command-Alt-C, Command-Ctrl-Alt-C : all to no avail, the hard disk just kicks in and boots OS9.2. I tried Command-O-F and that gives me an error message on my monitor screen saying SIGNAL OUT OF

Re: Install PPC 8.2 on beige G3

2003-07-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Alex Thurgood wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to install PPC 8.2 from the Mandrake CDs on a beige G3. I've got 1.5 Gig free space on the disk drive, and 256 Mb ram. Although I've read the readme.html file in the doc folder on the CD, nothing I've tried so far has got the

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
Le ven 11/07/2003 à 15:01, Christian Walther a écrit : The AppleScript applet that should automate the BootX setup has some flaws too. Try it, but don't be surprised if it doesn't work - I recommend you configuring BootX by hand. I don't know the necessary options offhand, but if you have

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 Stew Benedict
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Alex Thurgood wrote: 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,

Re: Install PPC 8.2 on beige G3

2003-07-11 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le ven 11/07/2003 à 17:28, Stew Benedict a écrit : Yes, BootX does all it's work from the MacOS side. kernels and initrd's for the installed system are provided. Did you delete your MacOS partition or something? Ah that would explain a lot. The obvious answer is that I did of course when I

Re: Install PPC 8.2 on beige G3

2003-07-11 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le ven 11/07/2003 à 17:28, Stew Benedict a écrit : Yes, BootX does all it's work from the MacOS side. kernels and initrd's for the installed system are provided. Did you delete your MacOS partition or something? Ah that would explain a lot.