Forget my first question - a friend of mine tugged hard enough on the
plastic ediface to get the case open!
What I found was:
A single PPC module @ 166Mhz (damn!)
2 x 128MB RAM chips (256MB total)
Onboard Symbios SCSI controller
SCSI card with 3 Adaptec 788x chips
3com 3c905 ethernet card (in add
As I've tried to say in the subject, I'm familliar with Debian on intel
machines well enough, but I've just received an IBM RS/6000 Model F40 (PPC
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) and am looking for some pointers to get this box going...
Two questions:
1) How to open the case?! I'd really like to find out wha
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Roman Hodek wrote:
> > Anyone knows about what keyboards BVME* use ? Same as MVME ?
>
> I think so, yes.
Do these boxes have a keyboard interface? Aren't they just rack-mounted boards
with serial consoles?
> > ... ??! Do all PPC's have any use of i386 keyamps ? Or only MVME
Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> On 16/11/99 Kevin Puetz wrote:
>
> >The following are true:
> >I could not build kernels older than 2.2.12 or so with the new 2.95 gcc
> >I read somewhere that this was known to be broken on x86
> >
> >I therefore inferred:
> >This is a general problem with the kernel and/
> The features I want (please tell me if you want more) are:
>
> - hfs, hfs+, iso and ext2 support for loading the kernel and an eventual
please msdos also ...
> install ramdisk from hard disk and CDs.
> - can be used to make bootable CDs (newworld only)
> - graphical (hum... later...)
> -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> yuk.
> I am not totally sure but i think that the -fno-strict-aliasing would
> cause the compile to fail altogether.
I dunno... it didn't fail to build, it just failed to work. Maybe I saw a
totally unrelated issue.
> the kernel developers say that if you find a proble
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>really i want a bootloader that has the same capability as LILO,
>multiple images all in the standard locations on ext2fs. password
>protection like LILO has would be helpful too... (yes i know not has
>good as on x86 because of la
> Hm... I'd prefer to keep layout as "qwerty", "azerty" and such :)
> Subarches will just be arches as far as I'm concerned.
Ah... The layout is IMHO country specific, i.e. US maps should always
be qwerty, German ones qwertz and French azerty, and so on... This is
also true for m68k machines :-)
On 16/11/99 Kevin Puetz wrote:
The following are true:
I could not build kernels older than 2.2.12 or so with the new 2.95 gcc
I read somewhere that this was known to be broken on x86
I therefore inferred:
This is a general problem with the kernel and/or gcc, including PPC.
This was affirmed w
On 16/11/99 David Welton wrote:
I don't mind using an HFS partition or something, just as long as
there is no MacOS on it.
i do :)
really i want a bootloader that has the same capability as LILO,
multiple images all in the standard locations on ext2fs. password
protection like LILO has wou
At 22:02 +0100 1999-11-16, Hartmut Koptein wrote:
And what about CHRP, PreP ? I guess some of them may only exist
as serial-console ?
> #elif #cpu (powerpc)
> struct d_choices keymaps[]={
> { "i386/qwerty/us", "U.S. English (QWERTY)" , KBD_C},
...
> { "mac/mac-de-latin
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