HOW-TO : Debian on NuBus

2001-03-04 Thread Paul Kimber
We now have a working ramdisk installer, so it is now much easier to install debian on nubus. Just grab the fake 'Mach Kernel' and the MkLinux Booter from ftp://penguin.tough.net.au change your root device to /dev/ram and reboot. Its that easy. If you have any problems just mail me. This is sti

Re: debian-powerpc: Keyspan USB to serial converter works :)

2001-03-04 Thread Brendan J Simon
Alan DuBoff wrote: I just got my Belkin USB->Serial going last week and was able to talk to my embedded system as well, but I have a quirk with I was wondering if you see. The serial console on my embedded system is only 9600, and for some reason it seems that when I pull up minicom, even thoug

Re: Mac partitioning probs

2001-03-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 09:11:46PM +, Matthew Kirkwood wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks to help from this list, I now have my Mac booting > and starting the installer (via BootX). > > My next problem is that the kernel doesn't seem interested > in recognising the partition table that I create on the >

Re: Mac partitioning probs

2001-03-04 Thread Taro Fukunaga
Hi, (B (BWhat kind of partitions do you have on sda? You need one root and one (Bswap at least. (B (BOn Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 09:11:46PM +, Matthew Kirkwood wrote: (B> Hi, (B> (B> Thanks to help from this list, I now have my Mac booting (B> and starting the installer (via BootX). (B>

Re: debian-powerpc: Keyspan USB to serial converter works :)

2001-03-04 Thread Alan DuBoff
Brendan J Simon wrote: > I'd just like to let everyone know that I got my Keyspan USB to Serial > converter working last night. I got the linux 2.4.2 sources (from > fsmlabs) and built the kernel to include the Keyspan driver. I'm using > the new devfs so the /dev entries are /dev/usb/tts/0 and

airport driver

2001-03-04 Thread Alan DuBoff
I have woody installed on a PowerBook (most recent G3 before new titaniam G4, the 2000 model, the Firewire model, Pismo, etc...call it what you like), which has an airport card in it that I would really like to use. I'm using a 2.2.18 kernel, and it is linked into /usr/src/linux. I grabbed the ai

debian-powerpc: Keyspan USB to serial converter works :)

2001-03-04 Thread Brendan J Simon
To Debian PowerPC mailing list, I'd just like to let everyone know that I got my Keyspan USB to Serial converter working last night. I got the linux 2.4.2 sources (from fsmlabs) and built the kernel to include the Keyspan driver. I'm using the new devfs so the /dev entries are /dev/usb/tts/0

Re: evolution etc...

2001-03-04 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 09:26:10PM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote: > Toumas, not having really used the Evolution address book (I'm back to using > Balsa/Mutt) I gave it a whirl and experienced exactly what you described. > > I could watch (with gkrellm) my RAM and swap get gobbled up. I averted a

Mac partitioning probs

2001-03-04 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
Hi, Thanks to help from this list, I now have my Mac booting and starting the installer (via BootX). My next problem is that the kernel doesn't seem interested in recognising the partition table that I create on the disk. I followed Ethan Benson's instructions and partitioned the 4Gb disk that I

Re: Help with X on iBook?

2001-03-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
Kin Chung wrote: > > > Tried both of those with recompiles even to make sure it was not > > > the patches or any brain-death I added. > > > >What patches? Those options work with stock XFree86 4.0.2. > > No idea what the patches are about. They came with the download > (in a separate package).

linux 2.4.2 + PB3400

2001-03-04 Thread Patrice LaFlamme
Hello, I have compiled 2.4.2 on my pb3400, and everything works _except_ networking. ifconfig inits the interface and all, routing is ok. But I can't ping or be pinged... Anyone else encountered this? Patrix. -- "Serious error. The site, vanished into dust. Screen. Mind. Both are blank." --

Re: Summary: Q: double Boot for SMP 7300

2001-03-04 Thread Michel Lanners
On 4 Mar, this message from Ethan Benson echoed through cyberspace: > one problem with this is the 7300 does not have any video support in > OF (AFAIK) so you would only be able to interface with quik via a > serial terminal, or perhaps blindly by setting input-device to kdb. Well, since the 7

Re: Summary: Q: double Boot for SMP 7300

2001-03-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 02:56:24PM +0100, Christoph Ewering wrote: > > 3.) nvsetenv to set a different boot-device within linux -- On OldWorld > the boot-device is always \\AAPL,ROM and somewhere in the PRAM the disk > and the partition is stored to boot from. er, when using miboot yes. > 4.)

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-03-04 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 03:29:06AM -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that in fact the rescue floppy is > bootable on any arch that can boot a CD. Because the bootable part > of the CD is really just the rescue floppy image. So technically uh no, only on x86 or an

Summary: Q: double Boot for SMP 7300

2001-03-04 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello! Here comes the summary of all mails I got trying to solve my problem. Some are wrong, some do not get the point but most replies make sense. Thanks to everybody. My problem in short: OldWorld SMP computer, running MacOS 9.x and debian-linux. if booted with BootX linux is not able to start

Re: Booting to floppy

2001-03-04 Thread Andrew Sharp
Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > syslinux actually. and it can take a root= argument but if you don't > > > give a root= argument you get a root disk prompt. > > > > Yeah, that's what I said/meant. The boot-floppy-hfs.img floppy > > doesn't work the same way as the rescue floppy does for other > >

Re: evolution etc...

2001-03-04 Thread Craige McWhirter
Toumas, not having really used the Evolution address book (I'm back to using Balsa/Mutt) I gave it a whirl and experienced exactly what you described. I could watch (with gkrellm) my RAM and swap get gobbled up. I averted a crash only by closing Evolution just before the swap filled up. It also

using Quik with Performa 6360

2001-03-04 Thread deega
I know the installation of Debian on OWM is a sore spot right now, but I have overcome the oft-mentioned boot-floppies failure by grabbing a floppy image created for OWM's. The machine boots Quik fine, though I am unable to direct OF to use kbd/screen for io (claim error). Here is a log of what h