Initial Boot

2001-01-27 Thread Jarrod Wells
I am a newbie Linux user that has previously used Linux on a friends' PC. Now that I have a G4 cube, and heard about the macintosh Debian distribution, I had him burn the CD .iso files for me so that I can install it. Somehow, the CD is not bootable, so I created a Mac OS Standard partition and co

Woody on a G4 cube?

2001-01-27 Thread Jeremy Radlow
Does anyone have real world experience with Debian on a G4 cube? I would be using a 450 MHz G4 cube as a server. I'd like to know whether it can function as a server (e.g. does networking work), and if the platform is stable. -Jeremy

Re: Initial Boot

2001-01-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:35:50AM +, Jarrod Wells wrote: > I am a newbie Linux user that has previously used Linux on a friends' PC. > Now that I have a G4 cube, and heard about the macintosh Debian > distribution, I had him burn the CD .iso files for me so that I can install > it. Somehow, t

Re: keyboard problems

2001-01-27 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I've got a keyboard problem with the right shift key that I'm hoping for > some help on. ADB or USB keyboard? For ADB keyboards, this might explain part of it: int mackbd_translate(unsigned char keycode, unsigned char *keycodep, char raw_mode) { if (!raw_mode) {

Re: XFree86 3.3.6 config for pismo

2001-01-27 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:17:39PM +0100, thus said Michel D?nzer: > Grant Miller wrote: > > > > > > > > > I've tried to get 4.0.2 working, but I've been fighting that for a week > > > > (or more). I'll survive with 3.3.6 until 4 is more mature on the > > > > PowerPC platform. > > > > > > Have yo

Re: bootX and MacOS 9.1?

2001-01-27 Thread Gjermund Gusland Thorsen
I run MacOS9.1 and BootX on all my PMac7600s no prob there either, the 2.2.18-pre kernel sux0rs howeber... Gjermund On onsdag 17. januar 2001 14:22, Chris Ivanovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 12:57 PM +0100 1/17/01, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >> >However I read some reports on linuxppc-u

Re: Booting 7200 without MacOS?

2001-01-27 Thread Gjermund Gusland Thorsen
You could always use the deb 2.2r0 floppies; as those work. But I’m stuck with BootX on 60MB MacOS9.1 partition, leaves me with about 20 MB free for tar balls when needed to be copied from a machine which is already online, a Mac, i. e. in my case. Gjermund On torsdag 25. januar 2001 17:23, Ma

Re: Booting 7200 without MacOS?

2001-01-27 Thread Gjermund Gusland Thorsen
I run deb 2.2r2 on 7600/132 like: 1x60mb HFS (not pluss!!! as it’s mountable mount -t hfs /dev/sda6 /mnt) 2.5xinstalled RAM 750MB / root runs as a server for all daemons I need; exim/sendmail, nfs, netatalk, hxd, httpd w/php, mysql. Gjermund On fredag 26. januar 2001 18:18, Rory Campbell-La

Re: Booting 7200 without MacOS?

2001-01-27 Thread Gjermund Gusland Thorsen
Hi Ethan I tried that too... but I end up zapping the PRAM trice to have the old MacOS bootX combo in order to NOT see a black screen… PMac 7600/132MHz, i. e. Gjermund On fredag 26. januar 2001 01:13, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 04:23:16PM +, Matthew Ki

Re: Booting 7200 without MacOS?

2001-01-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 11:00:25PM +0100, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote: > Hi Ethan I tried that too... but I end up zapping the PRAM trice to have the > old MacOS bootX combo in order to NOT see a black screen… PMac 7600/132MHz, > i. e. quik booting sometimes takes some trouble shooting, simp