Power PC Woody Prob - dselect -apt-get ...

2002-10-21 Thread Hugo Holdrinet
I have the following problem: After installing Woody on my G4 350 (PCI Slot), when I restarted, the base-config never happeared. When trying to run it or dselect on get-apt I was getting the following error : relocation error /var/lib/dpkg/status near line one I have restored the

Re: iBook install: failing to see hard drive

2002-10-21 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 20 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The installer boots fine, but claims I have no hard drive. Some people have reported that some iBooks can't be booted with a CD in the drive. Perhaps that is also the problem you're seeing? In that case, I guess that

Re: iBook install: failing to see hard drive

2002-10-21 Thread gremio
Hi Roger, I also have the combo drive, I'm sorry if I said something else. And I have no trouble booting the machine with a cd in the drive, which it will happily ignore unless I hold down 'c', as usual. Is that what you meant by can't be booted with a CD in the drive? I'm not sure I

Re: iBook install: failing to see hard drive

2002-10-21 Thread Claas Langbehn
quote who=Rogério Brito Some people have reported that some iBooks can't be booted with a CD in the drive. Perhaps that is also the problem you're seeing? my iBook2 500 does not thave that problem neither.

New at this

2002-10-21 Thread S. Wendel P. Schultz
I have worked a bit under linux and like it. I have spent most of my time at work on HP-UX and PC-based OSes: Red Hat and Mandrake on Intel hardware. Little to no experience with MacOS or PowerPCs in general. Anybody familiar with PowerPC and MacOS should enjoy some laughs at my expense.

Re: iBook install: failing to see hard drive

2002-10-21 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 23:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, may I ask that you keep me in the cc: in replies in lieu of my subscribing? As you wish, but please don't CC me. If you're running Debian on powerpc, you'll find this list to be really useful, so I would subscribe anyways... I'm

Re: New at this

2002-10-21 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, S. Wendel P. Schultz wrote: Well, I have an old world PowerPC 8600/250 and want debian on it. I have 160MB of RAM, so I figure I'll have a pretty decent little box. I have downloaded the first installation .iso and cut it; I don't know where to go now. I can't figure

Re: iBook install: failing to see hard drive

2002-10-21 Thread Valentin Podlovchenko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I also have the combo drive, I'm sorry if I said something else. And I have no trouble booting the machine with a cd in the drive, which it will happily ignore unless I hold down 'c', as usual. Is that what you meant by can't be booted with a CD in the drive?

Re: iBook install: failing to see hard drive

2002-10-21 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 20 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also have the combo drive, I'm sorry if I said something else. And I have no trouble booting the machine with a cd in the drive, which it will happily ignore unless I hold down 'c', as usual. Is that what you meant by can't be booted with a CD in the

Re: iBook install: failing to see hard drive

2002-10-21 Thread gremio
If you're running Debian on powerpc, you'll find this list to be really useful, so I would subscribe anyways... I hope not to need much help once it's installed... :-) I'm a newbie who enjoys debian and got sick of os x, but am having trouble installing debian for the first time. I have

Re: Xfree freezes after PMU suspend

2002-10-21 Thread BuG
Two months ago I had the same problem. It's not a kernel version problem, just a kernel .config problem. That said, I'm not sure I remember correctly the solution (:-(), anyway try to compile agpgart and r128 dri support as modules. BuG On (19/10/02 01:54), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct

Re: iBook install: failing to see hard drive

2002-10-21 Thread gremio
I have absolutely the same model of iBook and have experienced the same problems when installed Debian on it. My solution was to install without using CD-ROM at all making all things from MacOSX and over the network... You could read http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html (I don't

Re: New at this

2002-10-21 Thread Vinai Kopp
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 11:45:50PM -0600, S. Wendel P. Schultz wrote: Well, I have an old world PowerPC 8600/250 and want debian on it. I have 160MB of RAM, so I figure I'll have a pretty decent little box. I have downloaded the first installation .iso and cut it; I don't know where to go

Re: iBook install: failing to see hard drive

2002-10-21 Thread Valentin Podlovchenko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Valentin, http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html (I don't remember exactly, but it seems I've made sort of the same steps order) in this document, you say about UFS partitions: It's not my document I've found it in Internet right after I've installed

Re: New at this

2002-10-21 Thread simon . raven
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:46:50 +0200, Eric Deveaud composed: On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, S. Wendel P. Schultz wrote: Well, I have an old world PowerPC 8600/250 and want debian on it. I have 160MB of RAM, so I figure I'll have a pretty decent little box. I have downloaded the first

Re: XFree86 freezes after PMU suspend

2002-10-21 Thread BuG
On (21/10/02 12:35), Michel Dänzer wrote: CONFIG_PMAC_APM_EMU needs to be enabled, Obviously :-)) B.

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Re: date is 1934 on reboot

2002-10-21 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:02:53AM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: When I reboot my PowerMac G4 450MHz machine, the date is set to 1934. I'm using ntpdate and ntp but the date does not seem to be reset. If I run ntpdate manually then it does get set. Why can't I get the correct date from

Re: iBook install: failing to see hard drive

2002-10-21 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Dear developers, First, may I ask that you keep me in the cc: in replies in lieu of my subscribing? Thanks! I'm a newbie who enjoys debian and got sick of os x, but am having trouble installing debian for the first time. I have an iBook 600 MHz (with ATI rage video card, in case that helps

Re: New at this

2002-10-21 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:26:19AM +0200, Vinai Kopp wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 11:45:50PM -0600, S. Wendel P. Schultz wrote: Well, I have an old world PowerPC 8600/250 and want debian on it. I have 160MB of RAM, so I figure I'll have a pretty decent little box. I have downloaded

Re: iBook install: failing to see hard drive

2002-10-21 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 03:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Potato? Are you sure? The below sounds like woody (which is what you should be using). No, I'm not sure. I installed from iso's obtained from one of the mirrors at http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/ Unfortunately, a great many of

Re: date is 1934 on reboot

2002-10-21 Thread John Goerzen
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 07:24:51AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: Yes, usually the date/time not being kept is the first indication. It's fairly easy to replace, and although not a household battery, still fairly common. I believe there are firmware and/or OS bugs that cause the date to show up

Sound on g3 beige 233

2002-10-21 Thread marco
Hi, I have no sound here. Added my user to audio. Could you tel me what to do ? ## ls -la /dev/dsp crw-r--r--1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp ## ls -la /dev/mixer crw-r--r--1 root audio 14, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev/mixer ## cat /var/log/dmesg | grep sound

slapd : install error

2002-10-21 Thread Pierre Gambarotto
My debian is an up to date testing. I have errors on the install of slapd : Setting up slapd (2.0.23-14) ... dpkg: error processing slapd (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: slapd E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg

Re: PowerPC Problem

2002-10-21 Thread Steve Langdon
Thanks again for your assistance I've found out some more about the nature of the problem. I found out how to navigate down thro the file structure using the keys. The booter is concentating the folder names to 8 characters. Hence it cant find new-powermac cos it see's it as new-powe. I

Re: PowerPC Problem

2002-10-21 Thread Steve Langdon
I've got PC share switched on. Does MacOS write everything with an 8 Char limit so an old PC can read it or something ? From: Steve Langdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: PowerPC Problem Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 19:42:42 +0200 Thanks

Re: PowerPC Problem

2002-10-21 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
I've found out some more about the nature of the problem. I found out how to navigate down thro the file structure using the keys. The booter is concentating the folder names to 8 characters. Hence it cant find new-powermac cos it see's it as new-powe. I can get past the disks-powerpc

Re: PowerPC Problem

2002-10-21 Thread Steve Langdon
Indeed it is a bad idea. Unfortunately dbootstrap REQUIRES that I have rescue.bin in a folder called images-2.88 and drivers.tgz in a folder called new-powermac so our hands are tied. I'm not sure how I can enable these features. I'm using Adapdec Toast on an iMac to burn the CD, and it

Re: date is 1934 on reboot

2002-10-21 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 21 2002, John Goerzen wrote: I believe there are firmware and/or OS bugs that cause the date to show up incorrectly. I have seen this numerous times on my Powerbook, even when brand new, especially when booting one OS and then another. The only time I saw something like that

Re: date is 1934 on reboot

2002-10-21 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Oct 21 2002, John Goerzen wrote: I believe there are firmware and/or OS bugs that cause the date to show up incorrectly. I have seen this numerous times on my Powerbook, even when brand new, especially when booting one OS and then another.

I made a manual for the IBM B50

2002-10-21 Thread j0rd1 Adame
Hi! I just made a manual for installing Debian GNU/Linux in the IBM RS6000 B50 Right now, i only have a spanish version, but probably over the week i'll have an english version. the url http://linux.jordi.net/rs6kb50.html j0rd1 -- @ @ @ if