Re: your daily build of powerpc floppies

2004-12-14 Thread Ralf Schlatterbeck
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 15:43:34 -0500 Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > And quik will work -- assuming that the fix for booting with an initrd > makes it into the sarge distribution. And assuming that he has the > fortitude to look up and install the OF patches that are required for > hi

Re: your daily build of powerpc floppies

2004-12-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Saturday, December 11, 2004, at 01:22 AM, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 12:50:21AM -0500, Rick_Thomas wrote: Ralf, Are you willing/able to install a small MacOS (8 or 9, not X) partition on these machines? If so, you can use the BootX bootloader. If you don't know about it, it's

Re: your daily build of powerpc floppies

2004-12-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 12:50:21AM -0500, Rick_Thomas wrote: > Ralf, > > Are you willing/able to install a small MacOS (8 or 9, not X) partition > on these machines? If so, you can use the BootX bootloader. If you > don't know about it, it's a MacOS app that loads a Linux kernel and > ramdisk, a

Re: your daily build of powerpc floppies

2004-12-10 Thread Rick_Thomas
Ralf, Are you willing/able to install a small MacOS (8 or 9, not X) partition on these machines? If so, you can use the BootX bootloader. If you don't know about it, it's a MacOS app that loads a Linux kernel and ramdisk, along with a boot-time parameter string. BootX provides essentially all t

Re: your daily build of powerpc floppies

2004-12-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 11:06:02PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 10:39:01PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 09:38:46PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:56:50PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > BTW, did you try the

Re: your daily build of powerpc floppies

2004-12-10 Thread Ralf Schlatterbeck
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 10:39:01PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 09:38:46PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:56:50PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > BTW, did you try the ofonly boot floppy ? > > Yes for the rc2, No for the daily build. > > For rc

Re: your daily build of powerpc floppies

2004-12-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 09:38:46PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:56:50PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:14:42PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 07:16:58PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > > > > What graphic

Re: your daily build of powerpc floppies

2004-12-10 Thread Ralf Schlatterbeck
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:56:50PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:14:42PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 07:16:58PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > > What graphic card do you have on this box ? > > The built-in graphics. No extra card. >

Re: your daily build of powerpc floppies

2004-12-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:14:42PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply. > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 07:16:58PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 07:02:25PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote: > > > I recently discovered your daily build of floppies. > > >

Re: your daily build of powerpc floppies

2004-12-10 Thread Ralf Schlatterbeck
Thanks for the quick reply. On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 07:16:58PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 07:02:25PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote: > > I recently discovered your daily build of floppies. > > I can boot them on my oldworld 7600 powermac > > What graphic card do you have

Re: your daily build of powerpc floppies

2004-12-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 07:02:25PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote: > I recently discovered your daily build of floppies. > I can boot them on my oldworld 7600 powermac What graphic card do you have on this box ? > After booting the debian-installer starts and I get > a black screen. I can switc