If the real goal is finding out if the machine you bought can install and
run Debian, you should make that task really simple.
Something is the line of using a list of machines given by what they show
under the Apple System Profiler (running on the OS pre-installed on the
machine) associated with
Joseph Fannin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So I bootable CD for oldworld machines isn't possible, eh?
S'funny, I have one right here.
Apparently it requires proprietary software to create; read the list
archives.
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 07:05:04PM -0800, ozymandias G desiderata wrote:
I downloaded a prebuilt 2.4.12-benh0 kernel from
http://www.ppckernel.org/benh-devel/ and added it to my tftp-bootable
yaboot configuration. The kernel loaded and booted just fine, only
hanging when it hit the place
i have an idea on this... how about a small Mac OS application that you
could d/l and run and it would read the gestalt id and report weather the
machine will run and what dist minimum to use (i.e Beige G3 would report
something like 'This machine would need bootx to startup and Dist 2.2r2 or
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 12:54:04AM +, Bastien Nocera wrote:
FFS ! RTFM ! ;)
well i presume benh knows what he is doing, so i usually
refrain from telling him to rtfm! ffs! foad!
Hmm, actually just passing video=ofonly makes the Debian 2.2r2 CD boot
alright, that's how I installed the
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 07:51:46PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 03:47:23PM -0800, ozymandias G desiderata wrote:
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 03:32:25PM -0800, ozymandias G desiderata wrote:
Hi!
I'm trying to install woody onto a G4 Cube using Ethan's current
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 09:02:32PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
potato has the same kernel if I'm not mistaken.
correct, its the exact same source, only difference is woody has one
with a few different config options, none remotly relevant to booting.
--
Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 11:31:40PM -0500, Joseph Fannin wrote:
So I bootable CD for oldworld machines isn't possible, eh? S'funny, I
have one right here.
rtfla.
it requires proprietary software and expensive distribution licences.
unacceptable for debian, period.
--
Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 09:03:07PM -0500, Jean-Francois Landry wrote:
Sure it wasn't the drive? The controller? Cosmic rays flipping bits in
your (non-ECC) RAM? OK, maybe I put just a little too much trust into
if that were so the corruption would affect all filesystems, XFS has
been
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 08:02:56PM -0800, Anthony Lau wrote:
I guess I will have to wait and see if 2.4.14-pre6 is better since
Linus Torvald wrote that he had fixed the OOM-killer. I know that
the snapshot of 2.4.14-pre5 I have appears to kill processes that
I want up, but were idling.
Hi Chris
Here's a revision.
[snip]
Amiga Power-UP Systems (APUS)
UMAX A1200, A3000, A4000apus
Uuuhh, did not know, Phase5 boards are now manufactured by UMAX? ;)
Just to clean up some confusion, Amiga Power-UP Systems (aka APUS) have
nothing to do with UMAX at
Hi
i have an idea on this... how about a small Mac OS application that you
could d/l and run and it would read the gestalt id and report weather the
machine will run and what dist minimum to use (i.e Beige G3 would report
something like 'This machine would need bootx to startup and Dist 2.2r2
well until someone donates an ibook2 to me i can't be sure what the
deal is, all i know is a report from benh that he simply could not get
debian's 2.2.19 to boot his ibook2 period, and i am pretty sure he
hacked around on it for awhile.
Heh, well, don't assume to much about me :) I don't think
i have diffed ben's and Linus' tree and the differences are almost
entirely due to i2o (sound hardware you don't have) and iSeries
(something else you don't have any use for, its some embedded arch i
think).
penguinppc.org has been running pure Linus since 2.4.8, its currently
on 2.4.12 with no
After much fiddling around, I managed to make the 2.4.12-ben0 kernel
work with the root.bin from boot-floppies. I had no idea that would
actually work. I had to build the partition table, initialize and
mount the drives, configure the network, and write yaboot.conf from a
shell, but I now have
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 11:58:44AM +0200, Andreas Wüst wrote:
Hi
i have an idea on this... how about a small Mac OS application that you
could d/l and run and it would read the gestalt id and report weather the
machine will run and what dist minimum to use (i.e Beige G3 would report
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 12:52:18PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With a few exceptions...
The power management is definitely not up to date in Linus tree,
as are a few Mac specific drivers. I would recomment using the
Linus tree (or bk _2_4 which is supposed to be very close to linus
as
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 12:47:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyway, given the current status of 2.4.x, I think I will take
some time next week to backport most of this to 2.2.20 so at
least a reliable 2.2.x can be used for people who don't want
to fight with the various 2.4.x problems
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 04:12:20AM -0800, ozymandias G desiderata wrote:
of you can help me. Due to the insanely cheap prices of memory, I
picked up 3 512MB PC133 CAS2 DIMMS for the Cube. MacOS has no problem
with them, and I get a warm and fuzzy feeling from seeing Largest
Unused Block:
Ethan Benson wrote:
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 12:47:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyway, given the current status of 2.4.x, I think I will take
some time next week to backport most of this to 2.2.20 so at
least a reliable 2.2.x can be used for people who don't want
to fight with the
Hi
This would of course be a fine tool, though I am wondering why not to just
put an up-to-date model list up to
http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/install.en.html in a first step.
This list looks extremly outdated to me (no to talk about the 'tested'
column).
because that comes
I've set up a G4 Cube as a headless server with a serial console.
In case it's useful to others, here's what I did.
I got a CubePort from Griffin Technology (http://www.griffintechnology.com).
This replaces the internal modem with a standard Mac serial connector
on the panel, connected to the
Eric,
Thanks for the info. A small, quite, and cute server for the living room is
how I imagined Apple would market this thing when I heard about it thru the
rumors sites. Good move! I'm heading to eBay as we speak...
LdS
From: Eric C. Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 12:17:17
On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 13:12, ozymandias G desiderata wrote:
does that 'idebus=66' do anything except satisfy my more compulsive urges?
Unlikely. It should reflect the PCI bus speed, which is apparently 33
Mhz for most if not all recent Macs, and is normally autoprobed
correctly anyway.
Is
On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 03:03, Jean-Francois Landry wrote:
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 11:03:21PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
Okay, here goes (again):
I'd just like to add that I've been running most of my (x86) box on
Reiserfs for over a year now, and I've yet to see it even hiccup.
yes, i forgot to mention power management. when do you think that
will be stable enough to start sendint to linus and merging with the
stable branch?
The problem isn't really stability, but more various tweaks I had
to do to non-PPC specific code that will be difficult to merge. I will
try to
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 07:27:45PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 03:03, Jean-Francois Landry wrote:
Sure it wasn't the drive? The controller?
Nope, they're both still working fine, both in Linux with ext3 and in
MockOS.
Alright.
Cosmic rays flipping bits in your
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 02:16:24AM -0500, sloopy malibu wrote:
i have an idea on this... how about a small Mac OS application that you
could d/l and run and it would read the gestalt id and report weather the
machine will run and what dist minimum to use (i.e Beige G3 would report
something
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 08:56:06PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
Here's a revision.
[snip]
Motorola
Firepower, PowerStack Series E, PowerStack II prep
MPC 7xx, 8xxprep
MTX, MTX+ prep
not sure where to report this but this link:
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/3.0.16-2001-1
0-27/powermac/install.txt
has a echo problem with the section headings...
sloopy.
i.e.
11..11.. IInnttrroodduuccttiioonn
Apple (and briefly a few other
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 05:32:36PM +0200, Andreas Wüst wrote:
OK, I now see why they are outdated, but I would not consider this as an
excuse to not set up a page with proper, current, up-to-date information about
supported models, and which distro/boot-floppies would be best to start with
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 12:17:17PM -0500, Eric C. Cooper wrote:
and the kernel boot messages appear there, but the yaboot prompt still
appeared on the monitor. I fixed this by replacing the ofboot
this is because i had to force it in the ofboot script, otherwise
apple's braindamaged OF happily
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 06:23:29PM -0500, sloopy malibu wrote:
not sure where to report this but this link:
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/3.0.16-2001-1
0-27/powermac/install.txt
has a echo problem with the section headings...
its generated from sgml, i
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 01:32:15PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 08:56:06PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
Here's a revision.
[snip]
Motorola
Firepower, PowerStack Series E, PowerStack II prep
MPC 7xx, 8xx
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 05:35:18PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 06:23:29PM -0500, sloopy malibu wrote:
not sure where to report this but this link:
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/3.0.16-2001-1
0-27/powermac/install.txt
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