speaking of HFS partitions...

2000-01-07 Thread Jeremiah Merkl
So I tried doing an install the other day with the 2.1.xx "current" disks... I know that 2.2.4 is being worked on, but I was bored. So, anyways, I get it booted up, and go to repartition the drive...only to find out that every *fdisk program expects a MS/DOS partition table, and can't read the Mac

Quik segfaults

2000-01-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hello, I just built a new 2.2.14 kernel package, and installed, but quik segfaulted. Unfortunately, it is stripped, so all I can get for a backtrace is (gdb) backtrace #0 0x10011a3c in ?? () #1 0x0 in ?? () This is on a StarMax with the latest potato and stock 2.2.13. I've got the boot stuff

Blender

2000-01-07 Thread Hartmut Koptein
Hi, i will build a new blender package. What was the problem with the old one? Thanks, Hartmut

Stack frame in signal handler?

2000-01-07 Thread David Given
Does anyone know if the format of the stack frame when a signal occurs is documented anywhere? I've found the code in http://lxr.linux.no/source/arch/ppc /kernel/signal.c, and I can get most of it from that; but there are some strangenesses there I don't understand (why is there more than one sig

Booting debian.

2000-01-07 Thread Shiryu
Hi, I got a Powerbook G3 Lombard, and made a hack. I installed the bootloader from LinuxPPC, and booted the instalation, since I couldnt with the debian disks because powerbook doesnt have floppy. Instead of installing LinuxPPC, I opened a terminal and: 1) partitioned 2) Formatted 3) uncompress

Re: Continuing Annoyances...

2000-01-07 Thread David Given
[...] >>So there's no way to format diskettes on a PowerMac system? That >>seems wrong > >is there any reason to not just do: > >dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=2880 IIRC this won't actually format the disk, it'll just zero all the data in an existing format. I don't think this woul

Re: Continuing Annoyances...

2000-01-07 Thread David Given
[...] >This is wrong. The most recent rant by Linus on the topic is available >in a recent Kernel Traffic newsletter. Mmm. I stand corrected. I'll look it up. -- +- David Given ---McQ-+ "Hydrogen fusion, the sun makes shine | Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Vascular pressure mak

Re: 2.2.4 boot-floppies and powerpc/apus subarch.

2000-01-07 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 12:37:00AM +0100, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > > * in utilities/libfdisk/fdisk.c,1030 : MAX_DISKNAME_LEN is not defined, > > >anyone knows what is wrong here ? I defined it to 11 to test the rest > > > of > > >the bootfloppies. > > > > My fault, I think. This also

Re: 2.2.4 boot-floppies and powerpc/apus subarch.

2000-01-07 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 12:03:23PM +1300, Mark van Walraven wrote: > Hi Sven, > > > * in utilities/libfdisk/fdisk.c,1030 : MAX_DISKNAME_LEN is not defined, > >anyone knows what is wrong here ? I defined it to 11 to test the rest of > >the bootfloppies. > > My fault, I think. This also h

Re: Continuing Annoyances...

2000-01-07 Thread Dänzer
--- "C.M. Connelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >HK> BTW: add this to your script: > >HK> # fbset --all 1024x768-75 >HK> ${FBSET} -a -x -depth 16 1152x864-80 >HK> >HK> /etc/init.d/gpm restart >HK> >HK> echo "done." > > I think Hartmut meant gdm here, rather than g

Re: Continuing Annoyances...

2000-01-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On 6/1/2000 C.M. Connelly wrote: So there's no way to format diskettes on a PowerMac system? That seems wrong is there any reason to not just do: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=2880 and to do an extra read verify: cat /dev/fd0 > /dev/null then: mke2fs /dev/fd0 works pretty

Re: 2.2.4 boot-floppies and powerpc/apus subarch.

2000-01-07 Thread Mark van Walraven
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 12:37:00AM +0100, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > My fault, I think. This also happened on Alphas. MAX_DISKNAME_LEN > > *should* be defined for all architectures in . > > Would you please mail me your /usr/src/linux/include/linux/genhd.h and > > /usr/include/linux/genhd.h? > >