Re: Questions about your iBook?

2001-12-09 Thread Branden Robinson
I am forwarding your message to the debian-powerpc mailing list as I simply do not have time answer all of your questions. Furthermore, I don't know the answers to some of them. On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 10:55:32PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Dear Branden, > > I'm interested in ge

Re: Hello, and a utter-newbie question...

2001-12-09 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 08:56:06PM -0500, Bob B wrote: > I purchased a PowerMAC 5500/225. Got it cheap, and figured I would have some > > fun with MacOS. Well, after the first time that MacOS 'sang' an error to me, > > I decided to consign it (the os, not the hardware!) to the dustbin, and > i

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-12-09 Thread John Lord
Hi there On 09-Dec-01, Norman Cohen wrote: > I try to install KDE on potato 2.2 r4 by putting the following > in my sources.list: > deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto > then wvdial Why not use one of the many debian srvers around the world? > and then running > #apt-get update > #a

Hello, and a utter-newbie question...

2001-12-09 Thread Bob B
I purchased a PowerMAC 5500/225. Got it cheap, and figured I would have some fun with MacOS. Well, after the first time that MacOS 'sang' an error to me, I decided to consign it (the os, not the hardware!) to the dustbin, and install Linux. Of course, I have NO experience with Linux. From my

Re: X with 16 Bit ...

2001-12-09 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
> I want to configure my X with 16 Bit on my IBook2 with aty128 for > running opengl with 1024x786 pixels. > > But after that, I saw, X felt back to 15 Bit and my screen was green. > > How can I fix it? You can never fix 16-bit color. It is not possible to display any shade of grey while in 16-b

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2001-12-09 Thread kchki
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Re: Using system disk

2001-12-09 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 07:55:46PM +, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > The problem I have here is that OSX doesn't seem to support my floppy > > > drive. It sure doesn't see disks when I insert them. > > > > Not good. They don't appear on the desktop? >

Re: Using system disk

2001-12-09 Thread Wayne Pascoe
Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The problem I have here is that OSX doesn't seem to support my floppy > > drive. It sure doesn't see disks when I insert them. > > Not good. They don't appear on the desktop? Nope. Not at all. :( > The only other idea I have is the Disk Tools disk I

Re: Using system disk

2001-12-09 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 05:34:23PM +, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Hi again all, > > I know this is off topic, but I'm trying to use System Disk to sort > out my firmware as per Chris Tillman's suggestion. It doesn't run in > the classic environment under OSX. I've downloaded the boot disk image > as

Re: Continued problems booting Debian on oldworld G3

2001-12-09 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 02:33:24PM +, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Does anyone know if the stuff with System Disk needs to be done BEFORE > or AFTER the Debian install ? It's a firmware fix, I think it needs to be applied before. > > Also, will it work running under the classic environment in OSX ?

Re: Did anybody succed in installing bf-3.0.17 on a newworld ?

2001-12-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2001-12-08 at 20:44, Fabrice Lorrain (home) wrote: > I'm still trying to install woody, using bf-3.0.17, on my > G4 (400Mhz) and it doesn't really work :-( > > The first stage install (debootstrap) is going ok, but > after the first reboot, the system seems to be in > a pretty bad shape

Re: Problem installing Debian on B&W G3 Server

2001-12-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 01:54, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 05:34:51PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 17:11, Pan wrote: > > > Sorry for the huge mail... I figured it out... too much RAM I guess. I > > > took out 512 and the installer booted... > > > > Note th

Using system disk

2001-12-09 Thread Wayne Pascoe
Hi again all, I know this is off topic, but I'm trying to use System Disk to sort out my firmware as per Chris Tillman's suggestion. It doesn't run in the classic environment under OSX. I've downloaded the boot disk image as suggested on the netbsd page, but this page states that I need Disk Copy

Re: Continued problems booting Debian on oldworld G3

2001-12-09 Thread Wayne Pascoe
Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After an inspirational look at the boot-floppies todo list, I think I > found the answer. At > > www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html > > there are comments about your machine, the main one being that you > need System Disk to update your broken f

Unidentified subject!

2001-12-09 Thread Norman Cohen
I try to install KDE on potato 2.2 r4 by putting the following in my sources.list: deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto then wvdial and then running #apt-get update #apt-get install task-kde however as my modem is slow I have to download a number of times and hope the download will b

Re: OS 10.1 upgrade CD

2001-12-09 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 01:01:56AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Sounds like we should advise people to keep those partitions around > > rather than using i to initialize the partition table. > > Isn't there a way to prevent MacOS from asking questi

Re: OS 10.1 upgrade CD

2001-12-09 Thread Colin Walters
Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sounds like we should advise people to keep those partitions around > rather than using i to initialize the partition table. Isn't there a way to prevent MacOS from asking questions like that? I would suggest to download the source code and fix the bug