Installation of Debian on RS/6000 7024 E series

2000-08-11 Thread Neo Matrix
I have an old PowerPC RS/6000 7024 E series, and I am trying to install Debian PPC in it. I sure hope somebody can guide me through the installation. I've looked for the installation manual, but it's not in English. Thanks Adam _ Do You Yaho

http install broken (modules)?

2000-08-11 Thread Justin McKillican
I just did 2 Http installs 1 after the other. The problem was that after it had downloaded the drivers.bin and rescue.bin it proceeded to the loading of modules.. well none of the modules would load (couldn't be found) and the list seemed very limited. I had made an install 2 months ago from htt

Re: powermac clock on 7200

2000-08-11 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:53:48PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 04:16:02PM -0400, James Waterhouse wrote: > > > > Well that does not help me too much since I cannot get anything past 2.2.14 > > to > > run on my system (I'm one of those nasty powermac 7200/quik users). Does

Re: powermac clock on 7200

2000-08-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 04:16:02PM -0400, James Waterhouse wrote: > > Well that does not help me too much since I cannot get anything past 2.2.14 to > run on my system (I'm one of those nasty powermac 7200/quik users). Does > anyone > have any idea which is to blame, quik or the new kernels, or b

Re: powermac clock on 7200

2000-08-11 Thread James Waterhouse
Martin Costabel wrote: > No longer necessary: The newer kernels [1] have a driver for /dev/rtc > that lets you use the standard hwclock utility from util-linux. Just > choose CONFIG_PPC_RTC=y when compiling your kernel (or choose > CONFIG_PPC_RTC=m and patch a small bug in arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_ksym

Re: Downloading Debian from European Sites

2000-08-11 Thread Jonathan Belson
>On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Sven LUTHER wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 10:38:37AM +0100, Sergio Brandano wrote: >> > some time ago I reported that www.uk.debian.org is not an UK >> > site, as it is in fact a site in the east coast of the USA. Eh? That's Phil Hand's site - i

Re: Downloading Debian from European Sites

2000-08-11 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 10:38:37AM +0100, Sergio Brandano wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > some time ago I reported that www.uk.debian.org is not an UK > > site, as it is in fact a site in the east coast of the USA. > > Today I am reporting that the situat

Re: powermac clock on 7200

2000-08-11 Thread Martin Costabel
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 08:36:57AM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: > > > > No longer necessary: The newer kernels [1] have a driver for /dev/rtc > > that lets you use the standard hwclock utility from util-linux. Just > > choose CONFIG_PPC_RTC=y when compiling your kernel (or

Re: powermac clock on 7200

2000-08-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 08:36:57AM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: > > No longer necessary: The newer kernels [1] have a driver for /dev/rtc > that lets you use the standard hwclock utility from util-linux. Just > choose CONFIG_PPC_RTC=y when compiling your kernel (or choose > CONFIG_PPC_RTC=m and p

Re: powermac clock on 7200

2000-08-11 Thread Martin Costabel
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 04:20:49PM -0400, James Waterhouse wrote: > > Hello all, > > can anyone tell me... are we supposed to be able to set the hardware > > clock from within linux? I'm running kernel 2.2.14 on a powermac 7200 > > and when I try to set the clock using