Re: Oldworld-Netbooting-Help

2001-03-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 12:03:07AM -0500, C. Setlow wrote: > Hello. > I am trying to get my PowerMac 5500/225 to netboot using BootP, > TFTP, and a kernel image, but I do not know how. Any help would be > appreciated. I am also trying to get my Beige G3 300 to netboot, and it > fails after lo

HELP ME !!!!

2001-03-24 Thread Lorenzo De Vito
I'm disperate, after i've installed jdk I try to login (also with root) but I see the following message : bash: EOF1: command not found bash: /tmp/buildroot-jdk/etc/profile.d/jdk.csh: No such file or directory and cursor come back to login: help me!!!

Re: Oldworld-Netbooting-Help

2001-03-24 Thread Rolf Schatzmann
You can boot almost any mac that will run OS9.1 and has open firmware using a linux (or any *nix) box with these instructions. http://www.gwc.org.uk/~ali/nb/ Rolf Schatzmann Wireless Network Manager Eftel Radio Trading as Radiowan Office: 08 9386 Fax: 08 93868200 Mob: 0409 577 664 http://ww

Re: HELP ME !!!!

2001-03-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 03:43:07PM +0100, Lorenzo De Vito wrote: > I'm disperate, after i've installed jdk I try to login (also with > root) but I see the following message : > > bash: EOF1: command not found > bash: /tmp/buildroot-jdk/etc/profile.d/jdk.csh: No such file or directory > > and cur

Re: HELP ME !!!!

2001-03-24 Thread Lorenzo De Vito
But I don't know how can I login if it don't accept any name On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 03:43:07PM +0100, Lorenzo De Vito wrote: I'm disperate, after i've installed jdk I try to login (also with root) but I see the following message : bash: EOF1: command not found bash: /tmp/buildroot-jdk/et

Re: HELP ME !!!!

2001-03-24 Thread Benjamin Kite
Mount the root filesystem from a rescue disk or install image mkdir /tmp/foo mount /dev/ /tmp/foo then you can edit /tmp/foo/etc/passwd and /tmp/foo/etc/shadow to have no password field. Once you reboot, it shouldn't require a password. Be sure to re-set your root password ASAP. Prior to n

Re: Oldworld-Netbooting-Help

2001-03-24 Thread Charles Sebold
On 29 Adar 5761, Rolf Schatzmann wrote: > You can boot almost any mac that will run OS9.1 and has open > firmware using a linux (or any *nix) box with these instructions. > > http://www.gwc.org.uk/~ali/nb/ As that page itself says, this only applies to NewWorld Macs. I believe the OP was talkin

Re: Oldworld-Netbooting-Help

2001-03-24 Thread doowirb7
NetBSD has a tutorial on NetBooting and has a PPC Specific section (covering both Oldworld and NewWorld Macs with OF) at http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/. It is for booting a NetBSD client, but from looking around all probably need to change is the name of the kernel and ha

Re: HELP ME !!!!

2001-03-24 Thread Lorenzo De Vito
I have booted as single user but keyboard don't respond to my commands, I've booted with init=/bin/sh but when I try to delete something the system say me that I cannot delete or edit file because the filesystem is mounted read only and I cannot login, as root because it don't recognize passwor

Re: HELP ME !!!!

2001-03-24 Thread Chad Miller
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 08:12:26PM +0100, Lorenzo De Vito wrote: > I have booted as single user but keyboard don't respond to my > commands, I've booted with init=/bin/sh but when I try to delete > something the system say me that I cannot delete or edit file because > the filesystem is mounted

Re: Oldworld-Netbooting-Help

2001-03-24 Thread Cort Setlow
Thanks for your help. I'll have the error messages after I get my DSL setup.

network install problems on 7200/90

2001-03-24 Thread Martin Hedenfalk
Hi all! I'm trying to install Debian on my 7200/90. After getting a boot-floppy that recognized my keyboard (2.2.19, 2000-11-22), I was able to boot into the install program. Now I wan't to get the drivers/modules from the network. eth0 (MACE) is configured ok and the default route is ok, but I'm

Re: network install problems on 7200/90

2001-03-24 Thread Adam Goode
Yes, I have had this problem. The short answer is: MACE is completely broken in recent 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. It seems to be able to send 1-2 packets before failing with "lost a status word". These few initial packets allow DHCP to work ok, while everything else fails. I don't know how to fix it, al

Re: network install problems on 7200/90

2001-03-24 Thread Andrew Sharp
MACE seems to work "fine" on all my old worlds: 7200/75, 7600/200, 8500/200MP. 2.2.18pre21 and 2.2.17. I'm using the TP port. a Adam Goode wrote: > > Yes, I have had this problem. The short answer is: MACE is completely > broken in recent 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. It seems to be able to send 1-2 >

Keyboard Broken; 2.4 Kernel; Unstable 2.2 Dist; Powerbook G3 Wallstreet

2001-03-24 Thread Bill Evans
We tried on the powerbook, and a beige G3, with the same results. We tried a number of very technical things, but Greg is being ignoring me and won't tell me what he did. Perhaps some kinder, gentler, soul could suggest something. (Forget hitting Greg -- I already got someone on that.) Bill