Re: BootX instructions (Was Re: Problem installing debian on G3 beige)

2001-01-08 Thread Taro Fukunaga
Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote: I like debian the best of the linux distros... mainly because it does not taste like a beta, I know however that YDL is aimed at the beginner and to recrute MacOS users to linux. ...but on the ppc platform I find debian the hardest to reach the start of instal

Re: XF86 Problem Solved & Desktop Question

2001-01-08 Thread Taro Fukunaga
Nick Henderson wrote: Ok, I got X to work. I reinstalled the xserver-xfree86 package and selected [EMAIL PROTECTED], rather then 60. So X is now working and I would like to install KDE or gnome. Using apt-get for task-kde or task-gnome-desktop does not work. It says that some of the packages

Re: BootX instructions (Was Re: Problem installing debian on G3 beige)

2001-01-08 Thread Gjermund Gusland Thorsen
I like debian the best of the linux distros… mainly because it does not taste like a beta, I know however that YDL is aimed at the beginner and to recrute MacOS users to linux. …but on the ppc platform I find debian the hardest to reach the start of installation and boot off HD without BootX, t

Re: GNOME

2001-01-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
James Shearer wrote: > > On the Gnome website, it says it requires Debian 2.3 or higher. Is this > > true? > > No. As long as you have X and a recent GTK+, you can get the gnome > tarballs and compile from source. Even better, you can also build the Debian packages from source. All of the core

Re: installing debian on a IBM B50 (chrp)

2001-01-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 08, Steven Hanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >umm, I am pretty sure you mean sash Yes, I did really meant sash. -- ciao, Marco

Re: GNOME

2001-01-08 Thread James Shearer
> On the Gnome website, it says it requires Debian 2.3 or higher. Is this > true? No. As long as you have X and a recent GTK+, you can get the gnome tarballs and compile from source. As for prepackaged binaries, I know helixcode GNOME offers debs for i386 potato and woody, but I don't know abo

GNOME

2001-01-08 Thread Chris Bryan
On the Gnome website, it says it requires Debian 2.3 or higher. Is this true? And if so, why is it listed in the install packages on the cd? Does anyone have it up and running so that I know it's possible? Thanks so much!

Re: Xfree 3.x for Cirrus Logic GD 5446 on a RS 6000 clone (Bull Estrella 320)

2001-01-08 Thread Kaz Aoshima
Hi, On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 10:17:22 +0100 Mark Lamers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, >Anybody got any succes with this combination? >Please let me know Your machine maybe not RS/6000 clone but Motorola Powerstack clone. Most of them, called "blackhawk", have CillusLogic 54xx VideoChips, and X

Re: installing debian on a IBM B50 (chrp)

2001-01-08 Thread Steven Hanley
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:06:25AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > the next reboot. Install ash too. > When you are done, exit the chroot jail, run ash (which is a statically > linked shell with many build in commands) and: > > cd / > mkdir oldroot > mv usr bin sbin lib var home [...] oldroot/ > mv n

Re: installing debian on a IBM B50 (chrp)

2001-01-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 08, Borut Mrak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> the yellowdog kernel image (look for the link on www.yellowdoglinux.com) >Would that be the kernel(s) from >ftp://ftp.terraplex.com/pub/updates/kernel/2.4.0/? The old link disappeared, look at http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/faq_rs6k.sht

Re: installing debian on a IBM B50 (chrp)

2001-01-08 Thread Borut Mrak
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:06:25AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > I have been able to succesfully install debian on my B50 just by using > the yellowdog kernel image (look for the link on www.yellowdoglinux.com) Would that be the kernel(s) from ftp://ftp.terraplex.com/pub/updates/kernel/2.4.0/? I c

Re: installing debian on a IBM B50 (chrp)

2001-01-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 08, Borut Mrak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The kernel from the current boot-floppies (current = what's in woody) would >load, the last message that was printed was something about reading the >OpenFirmware tree... Our CHRP boot disks are broken. I have been able to succesfully install de

Re: installing debian on a IBM B50 (chrp)

2001-01-08 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Jan 08, Borut Mrak wrote: > > The kernel from the current boot-floppies (current = what's in woody) would > load, the last message that was printed was something about reading the > OpenFirmware tree... > > I also tried the kernel from > ftp.linuxppc.org/linuxppc-haloween/software/kernel

[help] booting without monitor

2001-01-08 Thread Takehiko Abe
Greetings, I moved from 2.2.17 to 2.2.18pre21 a few days ago. Since then my PM9600 box stopped booting without monitor. The config differences are: option 17 18 -- CONFIG_NET_EISA y n CONFIG_FB_PLATINUM y n CONFIG_FB_VALKYRIE y n CONFI

installing debian on a IBM B50 (chrp)

2001-01-08 Thread Borut Mrak
Hello! I unsuccesfully tried to install Debian on a such machine for the last couple of hours. The only kernel that booted on that machine is some heavily modified 2.2.14 from Suse 6.4. Which (the distro) also installs like a charm. The kernel from the current boot-floppies (current = what's in