On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Quentin Mason wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:29:22AM -0700, Sean Fay wrote:
> > > So if I only wanted to boot linux I could remove all partitions using MacOS
> > > Drive Setup and then have mandrake create the partitions it wants??
> >
> > Yes.
>
> Can you really
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:05:56PM -0400, Quentin Mason wrote:
> Can you really delete ALL the partitions -- including the random 4 or 5
> apple ones on the front ? I would leave those if I were you. I thought
> that open firmware needed something to tell if there is a mac partition
> map and wh
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:29:22AM -0700, Sean Fay wrote:
> > So if I only wanted to boot linux I could remove all partitions using MacOS
> > Drive Setup and then have mandrake create the partitions it wants??
>
> Yes.
Can you really delete ALL the partitions -- including the random 4 or 5
ap
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:29:22AM -0700, Sean Fay wrote:
> So if I only wanted to boot linux I could remove all partitions using MacOS
> Drive Setup and then have mandrake create the partitions it wants??
Yes.
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D]]On Behalf Of Sean Fay
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 8:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Problems installing PPC 8.0 on PowerBook G3 (New
World/400/128M/6GB/DVD)
Ok I am going to "bite the bullet" and get the cd's ... but I would
like to
know if I can just run Mandrake
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 05:29:13PM -0700, Sean Fay wrote:
> Ok I am going to "bite the bullet" and get the cd's ... but I would like to
> know if I can just run Mandrake and not MacOS?? Is that possible on the "new
> world" macs?
Yes because they use yaboot. yaboot only uses Open Firmware to boo
On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Sean Fay wrote:
> I tried the network install but when I tried to boot to the install-net or
> install-text-net it says not found looking for image. When I try just the
> normal install-atyfb it tells me no net device configure or something ...
> any suggestions?
>
A little
On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Sean Fay wrote:
> Then let me pose this question ... if I bought the CD's from you folks,
> should the install process work? Or is it a problem with my G3 Powerbook ...
> if so could it be a problem with the DVD drive?? The only problem with that
> is I do not have a normal c
enrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Problems installing PPC 8.0 on PowerBook G3 (New
World/400/128M/6GB/DVD)
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 15:26:12 +0200 (CEST)
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Stew Benedict wrote:
SB> I
Yeah, Toast didn't burn the ISOs for me properly on my Mac, so I ended up burning the
ISO's under Winderz with EZ CD Creator 4. Dunno why, but that's what I had to do..
-Zack
Ken Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just burned them using Toast 5 Platinum on the Mac. Don't try and
>burn the
I just burned them using Toast 5 Platinum on the Mac. Don't try and
burn them as ISO images, under Other, there is an option (Custom
Hybrid).
That's worked fine for me.
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On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Stew Benedict wrote:
SB> Are you also having install freeze problems?
Nope. I am still waiting for my iBook2 to be delivered so I have not
tested yet.
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On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Henrik Edlund wrote:
> I will also buy the CDs if I have to, but I prefer to burn them myself and
> then donating some money to MandrakeSoft. (I hope I can elect to donate
> them to the PPC branch?) Then I don't have to wait for delivery and nobody
> has to pay for CD media a
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Sean Fay wrote:
SF> BTW I plan on buying the CD's in the next week or so ... only if
SF> you think that would help of course. I would love to help out
SF> Mandrake as used to use Mandrake on my PC at work (before I was
SF> dot.bombed).
I will also buy the CDs if I have to, bu
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Sean Fay wrote:
> Ok,
>
> 1. yes I can see the contents of the directoy on vty2 using ls -l.
>
Good
> 2. On vty1 I am seeing:
> Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers at
> /usr/bin/perl-install/my_gtk.pm line 279
> " : locale not supported by C library
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Sean Fay wrote:
> They are burned using EZCD Creator 5 (Roxio) on a PC Running Windows 2000.
> The cd's burn fine and I can select as many packages as I like ... and if I
> choose individual package selection I can see all the RPMS ... but when I go
> to start the install of
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Ben Reser wrote:
> I don't think speed has a - on it. At least this is what I used to burn
> a CD just yesterday:
> cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,4,0 -eject -data
> /mp3-beta/8.0ppc/MandrakePPC-8.0-inst-ppc.iso
>
busted ;^) - it doesn't seem to care though, because I cut that
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 08:57:32AM -0400, Stew Benedict wrote:
> In Linux, I use:
>
> cdrecord -v -speed=2 dev=1,0,0 -eject -data /smbshares/imac/test-install.iso
>
> -v is verbose output
> -speed would be determined by your burner's capability
> -dev can be derived by running cdrecord -scanbus
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Stew Benedict wrote:
SB> I think Phil's FAQ listed below mentions how to burn in MacOS. Any
SB> Windows folks out there want to mention their proven technique?
Thing is I lack a CD recorder so I have to go to someone that runs those
icky things like Windows or MacOS and have
> > What software can handle to burn these correctly?
> I think Phil's FAQ listed below mentions how to burn in MacOS. Any
> Windows folks out there want to mention their proven technique?
Humm.. Easy cd Creator
Sylvain OBEGI
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On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Henrik Edlund wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Stew Benedict wrote:
>
> SB> Interesting. Are these purchased or self-burned images? Both Mandrake
> SB> PPC and YDL use a hybrid HFS/ISO9660 CD image, and depending on what
> SB> software and how you do the burn, you can lose thi
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Stew Benedict wrote:
SB> Interesting. Are these purchased or self-burned images? Both Mandrake
SB> PPC and YDL use a hybrid HFS/ISO9660 CD image, and depending on what
SB> software and how you do the burn, you can lose this configuration and end
SB> up with one or the other
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Sean Fay wrote:
> It seems that when I go to install Mandrake on this machine I can get so far
> as the package install (where it goes to install all the packages I
> selected) and then the cdrom drive seems to just powerdown and the install
> halts there not resuming even af
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