Re: Recent PPC Reiser support & Reiser strategy

2001-11-01 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Rory Campbell-Lange writes: > Are there issues with making Reiser filesystems on Debian PPC? It > would be useful to have /var, /tmp and /home on Reiser to help > recover from those battery power outages! If you need to recover from crashes, use XFS which is stable and has never let me down

Re: util-linux-locales and powerpc-utils installation conflict under woody

2001-11-01 Thread Ethan Benson
apt-get install util-linux/unstable powerpc-utils or just put util-linux on hold for a day or two, the fixed one is uploaded urgency=high so it should go in woody by friday. removing powerpc-utils is bad, that will break ybin. On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 07:47:25PM -0800, Laurent de Segur wrote:

Re: Problems with 2.2rev3 on a iBook Dual USB

2001-11-01 Thread Ethan Benson
potato is way to old for that hardware. i suggest using woody boot-floppies. and don't you even think about replying with pedantic rubbish about ibooks not having floppy drives. On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:09:22AM -0500, Bill Vinson wrote: > Well, I downloaded the iso and verified the md5sum. U

Re: Problems with 2.2rev3 on a iBook Dual USB

2001-11-01 Thread Bill Vinson
Meant to send this to the list, sorry, so here goes... Begin forwarded message: Thanks for the reply, I know that boot-floppies on PPC don't mean floppies, but I am kinda new to Linux on ppc. In x86 I would just install bare woody and immediately 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to woody. How do I g

and an insomniac pismo (with 2.4.14-pre5-ben0)

2001-11-01 Thread Steven Hanley
All I upgraded from 2.4.9-benh0 which I have been running for a while now, to 2.4.14-pre5-ben0 this morning. All seemed fine all day at work, however my laptop was sitting on my desk, open and awake most of the time. I left it asleep for 2 hours when I went mountain biking, then came back and pic

Re: and an insomniac pismo (with 2.4.14-pre5-ben0)

2001-11-01 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:36:21PM +1100, Steven Hanley wrote: > All > > I upgraded from 2.4.9-benh0 which I have been running for a while now, to > 2.4.14-pre5-ben0 this morning. All seemed fine all day at work, however my > laptop was sitting on my desk, open and awake most of the time. > > I l

trouble building discover on powerpc

2001-11-01 Thread Branden Robinson
Is there something unusual about the powerpc kernel? discover appears to build fine on almost all Debian architectures -- except powerpc. The error is: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I. -I.. -g -O2 -Wall -Wp,-MD,.deps/ethernet.pp -c ethernet.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/ethernet.lo ethernet.c: In

Re: trouble building discover on powerpc

2001-11-01 Thread Tom Rini
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 08:38:41AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Is there something unusual about the powerpc kernel? > > discover appears to build fine on almost all Debian architectures -- > except powerpc. > > The error is: > > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I. -I.. -g -O2 -Wall > -Wp,

Re: Emacs on MacOS

2001-11-01 Thread raphaello
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:44:01PM +0100, raphaello wrote: or better yet erase MacOS and install Debian. People use Mac because they use QuarkXPress, for making Newspapers. As long as you don't have QuarkXPress equivalent, you can't erase MacOse (and for sure I don't have any clue about making

Re: and an insomniac pismo (with 2.4.14-pre5-ben0)

2001-11-01 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
my point is that putting a laptop to sleep instead of shutting it down entirely when transporting it is not a good idea IMO and IME. IMO & IME, putting a laptop to sleep is an essential part of the laptop experience. Being able to grab & go, and pop the 'book open at the other end and and be

Re: trouble building discover on powerpc

2001-11-01 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 08:38:41AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Is there something unusual about the powerpc kernel? > > discover appears to build fine on almost all Debian architectures -- > except powerpc. > > The error is: > > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I. -I.. -g -O2 -Wall > -Wp,

Re: trouble building discover on powerpc

2001-11-01 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 12:35:08PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > The special-case code needs to be taken out and shot. Done, except for the cpuinfo parser in cpu.c. > PCI detection should work just as normal. Using Open Firmware for > this is a bad idea. discover 1.1-3 has been uploaded for

Re: Buildd Failures

2001-11-01 Thread Stephen R Marenka
I've run through more of the log and managed to get the following to build, so perhaps they need to be requeued. I'm using pbuilder with sid from Oct. 31, 2001. syslog-ng 1.5.9-2 scsitools 0.3-1 kweather2.99-3 fwbuilder 0.9.6-2 kicq2.0.0b3-20010313-1.3 konvers

Unidentified subject!

2001-11-01 Thread Brendan O'Dea
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Re: Recent PPC Reiser support & Reiser strategy

2001-11-01 Thread Jean-Francois Landry
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 05:07:49PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > Sorry for flooding the list this week. I've taken the week off from work > to do some databasing and to try and get Debian running on my Lombard. > Sad, isn't it! > > I came across ppckernel.org and noted that the latest build

Re: Recent PPC Reiser support & Reiser strategy

2001-11-01 Thread Tom Rini
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 04:17:16PM -0500, Jean-Francois Landry wrote: > On the other hand, XFS has been ported over to PowerPC and should be > stable by now. Oh, and ext3 might work also (haven't checked). I'll let other people comment on the reiser parts of your msg, but ext3 (2.4) has worked f

IrDA-patched binaries

2001-11-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have made available kernel and irda-packages with the irda-hacks added to make . Also, according to BenH the IDE tweaks should be alright now (but who knows what other "features" have been thrown into this bleeding edge kernel as well ;-)

Re: [Debian] IrDA-patched binaries

2001-11-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I have made available kernel and irda-packages with the irda-hacks > added to make . ...to make IrDA work on the Apple G4 "TiBook" PowerBook. (sorry, I got ahead of myself and let it out before finished

Re: Problems with 2.2rev3 on a iBook Dual USB

2001-11-01 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 04:15:47AM -0500, Bill Vinson wrote: > Meant to send this to the list, sorry, so here goes... > > Begin forwarded message: > > >Thanks for the reply, > > > >I know that boot-floppies on PPC don't mean floppies, but I am kinda > >new to Linux on ppc. In x86 I would just i

Next problem on the road to iBook Debian Linux

2001-11-01 Thread Bill Vinson
Ok...after Ethan gave me the push in the right direction, I have now gotten the iBook to boot off of the network using TFTP and woody boot floppies. My problem is now that I have a potato cd which may or may not be bad. I have tried to install over http/ftp and it asks if it can use DHCP (Wha

Re: and an insomniac pismo (with 2.4.14-pre5-ben0)

2001-11-01 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 09:32:17AM -0800, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick wrote: > >my point is that putting a laptop to sleep instead of shutting it down > >entirely when transporting it is not a good idea IMO and IME. > > IMO & IME, putting a laptop to sleep is an essential part of the > laptop ex

Re: and an insomniac pismo (with 2.4.14-pre5-ben0)

2001-11-01 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
no they don't, my 540c did not, and it had a mechenism where when the lid is closed it went to sleep, but when it awoke for whatever reason it usually stayed awake and became very hot. I think that's called a bug ;) You *did* say it was MockOS, didn't you? -- ___

Re: Supported models

2001-11-01 Thread Tom Rini
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 07:03:06PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > To close bug #57369, I think all we need is a list of powerpc models > supported by Debian. Please add, correct, or otherwise munge: The context above implies there's some documentation already. This list will also need to be chang

be psyched

2001-11-01 Thread OpenBeOs
 Greeetings . recently the BeOs has become available for aquisition . Palm has been the major contender so far with it's intention of using code base for other projects which will have nothing to do with BeOs . Effectivily the demise of a beutifull OS. Built from the ground up for multi me

Re: Supported models

2001-11-01 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 06:55:32PM -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote: > Chris Tillman wrote: > > > > +OldWorld > > + - Performa 4400, 54xx, 5500, 6300/160, 6360, 6400, 6500 > > + - Power Macintosh 7300, 7600, 8500 > > Aren't we including the 7200 in here? > I was hoping somebody would speak up about

Re: Supported models

2001-11-01 Thread Tom Rini
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 09:07:30PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 06:55:32PM -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > Chris Tillman wrote: > > > > > > +OldWorld > > > + - Performa 4400, 54xx, 5500, 6300/160, 6360, 6400, 6500 > > > + - Power Macintosh 7300, 7600, 8500 > > > > Aren't

Re: and an insomniac pismo (with 2.4.14-pre5-ben0)

2001-11-01 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 09:32:17AM -0800, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick wrote: > > >my point is that putting a laptop to sleep instead of shutting it down > > >entirely when transporting it is not a good idea IMO and IME. > > > > IMO & IME, putting a lapt

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-11-01 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 08:01:00AM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > unsubscribe HA HA! -- G. Branden Robinson|Build a fire for a man, and he'll Debian GNU/Linux |be warm for a day. Set a man on [EMAIL PROTECTED] |fire, and he'll be wa

Re: Supported models

2001-11-01 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 06:55:32PM -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote: > Chris Tillman wrote: > > +OldWorld > > + - Performa 4400, 54xx, 5500, 6300/160, 6360, 6400, 6500 > > + - Power Macintosh 7300, 7600, 8500 > > Aren't we including the 7200 in here? You should. I've got one sitting right here. proc

Re: Next problem on the road to iBook Debian Linux

2001-11-01 Thread Colin Walters
Bill Vinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have tried to install over http/ftp and it asks if it can use DHCP > (What I use with x86) and it goes off to do it and says everything > worked, but I get hostname lookup failures. It didn't set anything > up. So, I configure it manually but that seem

Re: Supported models

2001-11-01 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 11:36:25PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 06:55:32PM -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > Chris Tillman wrote: > > > +OldWorld > > > + - Performa 4400, 54xx, 5500, 6300/160, 6360, 6400, 6500 > > > + - Power Macintosh 7300, 7600, 8500 > > > > Aren't we

Re: Supported models

2001-11-01 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 12:17:00AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 11:36:25PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 06:55:32PM -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > > Chris Tillman wrote: > > > > +OldWorld > > > > + - Performa 4400, 54xx, 5500, 6300/160, 6360

Problems with 2.2rev3 on a iBook Dual USB

2001-11-01 Thread Bill Vinson
Well, I downloaded the iso and verified the md5sum. Used xcdroast to burn the iso to cd. It will mount under Linux and Windows, but not Mac OS X. If I hold down the 'c' during boot it continues to boot off the hd. If I go into OpenFirmware and use 'boot cd:\\yaboot' and other strings it say