[ANN] New XFree86-pmac rsync tree

2000-07-04 Thread Ani Joshi
With XFree86 4.x development speeding up, I have placed an rsync tree of my xfree86/ tree. This rsync tree can be grabbed with: rsync -arvz penguinppc.org::xfree86-pmac . This tree contains the 'bleeding edge' development server and drivers for XFree86 4.x. Included are my development Mach64,

Re: Setting up the defaultroute for PPP

2000-07-04 Thread sam
I've done that before on my other machine.. but with standard pppd and the debain pppconfig utility instead of wvdial. in my /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/0local (I made it myself for this purpose) goes something that looks like this: #!/bin/sh route del default route add default ppp0 Somehow, when PPP goes d

Thanks

2000-07-04 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi all, I would like to thanks Ethan Benson and Martijn van de Streek for the help they give me to boot my iMac DVD under Debian Linux. All worked perfectly well. Thanks also to the people who are involved in powerpc debian maintaining, the install process is cool... I'm starting to write down t

Re: compiling kernel

2000-07-04 Thread C.M. Connelly
"JH" == Josh Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Even better, you should copy your new kernel to your kernels >> folder in the System Folder, giving it a different name JH> How do I copy the new kernel from my Linux partition to Mac JH> OS? I have my MacOS disks mounted automatically at

Re: compiling kernel

2000-07-04 Thread Josh
> Even better, you should copy your new kernel to your kernels > folder in the System Folder, giving it a different name How do I copy the new kernel from my Linux partition to Mac OS? > You can (and should) specify a name using the EXTRAVERSION field > in the top-level Makefile in your kernel so

Re: libiberty.h (issues compiling MOL)

2000-07-04 Thread Chad Miller
(NB, I had tried to package MOL a few months ago.) On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 07:06:31PM +0300, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > Anyway, it looks to me that binutils-dev is broken? Check the version numbers. IIRC, the autobuilder isn't running for PPC on woody. The libiberty.h BTS entry was mine, and the

Re: Last part of an iMac DvD install : ybin

2000-07-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 12:35:41AM +0200, Xavier Grave wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just get an iMac DvD. I've burned the CD from the debian site > (ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian-cd/potato_test-cycle-2/powerpc/potato-1.raw) > and booted it on my iMac. After a fw step, I have all installed except the >

Setting up the defaultroute for PPP

2000-07-04 Thread Sergio Brandano
Hello boys and girls! netbase added this text in my /etc/init.d/network file: # (added automatically by netbase upgrade) # # In new Debian installations, this file is deprecated in favour of # the ifup/ifdown commands (invoked from /etc/init.d/networking), which # can be configured from the file

Re: Last part of an iMac DvD install : ybin

2000-07-04 Thread Xavier Grave
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Re: Last part of an iMac DvD install : ybin

2000-07-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 09:05:01AM +0200, Xavier Grave wrote: > > > try mkofboot and see if that works. > I will try it when I come back home, but it seems mkofboot and ybin are > the same : > same length in byte on my ram disk. they are hard links but the behaviour is different based on how it i

Re: Last part of an iMac DvD install : ybin

2000-07-04 Thread Xavier Grave
Thanks, On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 12:35:41AM +0200, Xavier Grave wrote: > > When I get a shell in debian installation and do : > > #ybin -b /dev/hda9 --timeout 100 --label linux --root /dev/hda11 > > > you need to run mkofboot instead of ybin, i sus

Re: unzip

2000-07-04 Thread C.M. Connelly
unzip is available: Package: unzip Version: 5.40-1 Priority: optional Section: non-free/utils Maintainer: Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1) Suggests: zip Conflicts: unzip-crypt Replaces: unzip-crypt Architecture: powerpc Filename: dists/frozen/non-free/binary-powerpc/utils

Re: compiling kernel

2000-07-04 Thread C.M. Connelly
"JH" == Joshua Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JH> I'm about to compile a kernel (1st time) on a 250 mhz G3 JH> Powerbook. I've read a bunch of stuff online, but have JH> a couple of questions. JH> Is the current linux kernel image /boot/vmlinux-2.2.xx ? The current Linux kerne

unzip

2000-07-04 Thread Joshua Holland
I was trying to download a zip'd program from a web site, (which was supposed to be for Windows, NT, Linux, Unix etc.).  My browser said 'unknow type blah blah' and gave me the option to save it, which I did, and I named it something.zip.  That's when I found out I don't have unzip.  I tried to

compiling kernel

2000-07-04 Thread Joshua Holland
I'm about to compile a kernel (1st time) on a 250 mhz G3 Powerbook.  I've read a bunch of stuff online, but have a couple of questions. Is the current linux kernel image /boot/vmlinux-2.2.xx ? I've read I should back this up as 'running_kernal.something' How would I boot with the backed up kern