Floppyless installs should have more focus in the install guide. Many
(most?) new macintoshes do not have a floppy drive. At my site we have
about 50 macintoshes (G3/G4) but I've only seen two where a 3.5 drive has
been added. A few have zip disks.
-Lars
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Chris
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 07:29:14AM +0200, Lars D. Nood?n wrote:
Floppyless installs should have more focus in the install guide. Many
(most?) new macintoshes do not have a floppy drive. At my site we have
about 50 macintoshes (G3/G4) but I've only seen two where a 3.5 drive has
been
Ok. Here are some more concrete suggestions regarding the installation
guide. The are probably many other people without floppies or with only
non-booting USB floppies.
http://www.uk.debian.org/releases/woody/powerpc/install
For me, the hard part was finding which ISO image to use *and* which
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Michel Lanners wrote:
On 21 Apr, this message from John Schmidt echoed through cyberspace:
On Sunday 21 April 2002 08:36 am, John Schmidt wrote:
I have a Power Tower Pro with a G3/466 card running with scsi drives. I am
running woody with kernel 2.2.20. The drive is
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 11:38, Edd Dumbill wrote:
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 13:56, Michel Dänzer wrote:
I'll have the same issue for the presentations I'll be doing at XML
Europe and I have just noticed that yaboot does pretty well with the
external video!
It's probably a bit tough to
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 13:20, Michel Dänzer wrote:
So, can anyone suggest how I solve the screwy colors problem, or make
offb use a mode deeper than 8 bits?
OFfb basically takes the display from Open Firmware and can't change
anything, so I'm afraid there's no way except maybe in OF.
I've
Thanks Chris for the link.
now my kernel is properly configured!
But I still have problems with my X configuration you will find below
my config file with the log and the dmesg.
The main problem seems to be that there is no screen found...
here I'm not trying an external screen.
On Apr 22 2002, Edd Dumbill wrote:
I tried this (I compiled a kernel without the ati driver in), with the
following results:
(...)
* The colors in X are totally screwy, making it not really very usable.
I had seen this before on a PMac 9500/180MP with a imstt card,
when I was
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 17:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
now my kernel is properly configured!
radeonfb would be much better than OFfb though. :)
But I still have problems with my X configuration you will find below
my config file with the log and the dmesg.
The main problem seems
Had typed Jean-Francois Gobin, in part:
I had the same problem. However, here's how I managed to help myself.
cd /dev
rm mouse
ln input/mice mouse
cd /etc/X11
edit XF86Confg and change device /dev/mouse by device /dev/gpmdata,
Protocol MouseSystems (? not sure of this one)
gpm -R -t ps2
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 16:20, Edd Dumbill wrote:
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 13:20, Michel Dänzer wrote:
So, can anyone suggest how I solve the screwy colors problem, or make
offb use a mode deeper than 8 bits?
OFfb basically takes the display from Open Firmware and can't change
anything,
Hi all,
i have not been here for a few months, because i had to do my studies in
a forgein country. so i could not made further progress in learning
debian for powerpc's.
but now i'm back and it would be nice to meet again all the people that
helped me when i had problems with debian.
Now my
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:56:52AM -0400, matthew frederick davis h. wrote:
Had typed Jean-Francois Gobin, in part:
I had initially chosen potato just because I'm a relative newbie and
liked the association with the word stable, but I'm realising that that's
a pretty woosy approach for a
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:56:02PM +0200, Roland Wegmann wrote:
Hi all,
i have not been here for a few months, because i had to do my studies in
a forgein country. so i could not made further progress in learning
debian for powerpc's.
but now i'm back and it would be nice to meet again all
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Hello again!
Ok, so Debian works pretty solid now, except for some problems with
a buggy network card (smc91c92_cs). But, I've got a new one on order.
:)
Now, for the dumb question, How do I suppress the messages generated
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:05:55PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:56:02PM +0200, Roland Wegmann wrote:
Hi all,
i have not been here for a few months, because i had to do my studies in
a forgein country. so i could not made further progress in learning
debian
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 04:58:52PM -0500, Zach Lowry wrote:
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Hello again!
Ok, so Debian works pretty solid now, except for some problems with
a buggy network card (smc91c92_cs). But, I've got a new one on order.
:)
Now,
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Hash: SHA1
Hello again!
Ok, so Debian works pretty solid now, except for some
problems with
a buggy network card (smc91c92_cs). But, I've got a new one
on order.
:)
Now, for the dumb question, How do I suppress the
messages
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One again, I clutter the list.
I have some odd goings on with pmud. I don't have the faintest idea
what could be causing them though. On my PB2400, The system has a
hard time waking up from sleep. Sometimes it locks up with no
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 05:24:57PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:05:55PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:56:02PM +0200, Roland Wegmann wrote:
Hi all,
i have not been here for a few months, because i had to do my studies in
a
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