Re: Debian on a FW drive

2005-01-15 Thread Derrik Pates
Gregory Seidman wrote: This is sort of a long shot, but there's always the chance that someone has managed it. I just bought my wife a Mac mini. She has little use for Linux on it, but I'm always into playing with such things. For that matter, I have a dual G4 tower that I haven't bothered puttin

Re: Last ditch on PlanB driver

2005-01-15 Thread david
Hi all Some progress with planb perhaps.. i generated a 2.4.19 kernel from debian sources and enabled the planb module. dmesg seems to report this is ok but the xawtv side seems to remain problematic. i have made some notes on my weblog if you are interested... http://nitro.qednet.biz/cgi-bin/b

Re: can't boot with my 2.6.9 kernel...

2005-01-15 Thread James Gibbs
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 00:43 +0100, Nicolas Lebas wrote: > Thank you everybody, > i download the iso image of the linux rescue and burn it... > > And so i could look at my yaboot.conf ; finaly the kernel-image package > i installed didn't create the symbolic link "initrd.img", and so i > create i

Bug#290702: [powerpc] Default kernel installed for reboot is wrong, G5 PowerMac7,3

2005-01-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Package: installation-reports Severity: important INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 20010114 Netinst Daily Build uname -a: Default install fails (see below), expert mode requires 2.6.8-power4 Date: January 15, 2005 1700 PST Method: Boot off CD, used install-power4 kernel, used mirror

Re: Debian on a FW drive

2005-01-15 Thread Derrik Pates
Gregory Seidman wrote: This is sort of a long shot, but there's always the chance that someone has managed it. I just bought my wife a Mac mini. She has little use for Linux on it, but I'm always into playing with such things. For that matter, I have a dual G4 tower that I haven't bothered putting

Re: can't boot with my 2.6.9 kernel...

2005-01-15 Thread James Gibbs
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 00:43 +0100, Nicolas Lebas wrote: > Thank you everybody, > i download the iso image of the linux rescue and burn it... > > And so i could look at my yaboot.conf ; finaly the kernel-image package > i installed didn't create the symbolic link "initrd.img", and so i > create i

Bug#290702: [powerpc] Default kernel installed for reboot is wrong, G5 PowerMac7,3

2005-01-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Package: installation-reports Severity: important INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 20010114 Netinst Daily Build uname -a: Default install fails (see below), expert mode requires 2.6.8-power4 Date: January 15, 2005 1700 PST Method: Boot off CD, used install-power4 kernel, used mirror

Apple Cinema Display 20 XF86config?

2005-01-15 Thread Patrick Finnegan
[Reposting with a better subject] On Thursday 13 January 2005 20:10, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Patrick" == Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Patrick> So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was > Patrick> having a hard time getting X to work, until I found out

Re: Debian on a FW drive

2005-01-15 Thread intrigeri
Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I brought up the idea of booting off an external Firewire drive a > couple of years ago, and no one had any good answers. Has that > changed? Has anyone managed to do what I'm talking about? Hello, it is possible, but you have to play with ramdisks ;

Re: Problems with partitioning

2005-01-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 04:12:39PM +0800, pharme wrote: > Good day to all, > > I am an absolute novice (5 days old) in Linux, with some years of Please forget about woody, and try : http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ if you have good network connnectivity, just download : http

Apple Cinema Display 20 XF86config?

2005-01-15 Thread Patrick Finnegan
[Reposting with a better subject] On Thursday 13 January 2005 20:10, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Patrick" == Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Patrick> So, I'm trying to get my new G5 desktop set up, and was > Patrick> having a hard time getting X to work, until I found out

Re: Debian on a FW drive

2005-01-15 Thread intrigeri
Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I brought up the idea of booting off an external Firewire drive a > couple of years ago, and no one had any good answers. Has that > changed? Has anyone managed to do what I'm talking about? Hello, it is possible, but you have to play with ramdisks ;

Re: MAC Mini

2005-01-15 Thread Jack Malmostoso
Ciao Colin Leroy, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > I'm guessing Mac mini shares a lot with latest G4 ibooks. I bet my 0.02 on that too! -- On Oct 5 1991, 8.53 AM; Linus Benedict Torvalds said: >I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be >out in a year (or two, or next month

Re: Problems with partitioning

2005-01-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 04:12:39PM +0800, pharme wrote: > Good day to all, > > I am an absolute novice (5 days old) in Linux, with some years of Please forget about woody, and try : http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ if you have good network connnectivity, just download : http

Debian on a FW drive

2005-01-15 Thread Gregory Seidman
This is sort of a long shot, but there's always the chance that someone has managed it. I just bought my wife a Mac mini. She has little use for Linux on it, but I'm always into playing with such things. For that matter, I have a dual G4 tower that I haven't bothered putting Linux on. What I'd lik

Re: MAC Mini

2005-01-15 Thread Jack Malmostoso
Ciao Colin Leroy, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > I'm guessing Mac mini shares a lot with latest G4 ibooks. I bet my 0.02 on that too! -- On Oct 5 1991, 8.53 AM; Linus Benedict Torvalds said: >I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be >out in a year (or two, or next month

Re: MAC Mini

2005-01-15 Thread Colin Leroy
On 15 Jan 2005 at 11h01, Richard L. wrote: Hi, > Debian PPC that works on MAC Mini would be awsome. I'm guessing Mac mini shares a lot with latest G4 ibooks. We'll know for sure when someone tries it :) -- \|/ \|/ Colin "@'/ ,. \`@" http://www.geekounet.org/ /_| \__/ |_\ \__U

MAC Mini

2005-01-15 Thread Richard L.
Debian PPC that works on MAC Mini would be awsome.

Debian on a FW drive

2005-01-15 Thread Gregory Seidman
This is sort of a long shot, but there's always the chance that someone has managed it. I just bought my wife a Mac mini. She has little use for Linux on it, but I'm always into playing with such things. For that matter, I have a dual G4 tower that I haven't bothered putting Linux on. What I'd lik

Re: MAC Mini

2005-01-15 Thread Colin Leroy
On 15 Jan 2005 at 11h01, Richard L. wrote: Hi, > Debian PPC that works on MAC Mini would be awsome. I'm guessing Mac mini shares a lot with latest G4 ibooks. We'll know for sure when someone tries it :) -- \|/ \|/ Colin "@'/ ,. \`@" http://www.geekounet.org/ /_| \__/ |_\ \__U

MAC Mini

2005-01-15 Thread Richard L.
Debian PPC that works on MAC Mini would be awsome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB wireless 802.11g dongle

2005-01-15 Thread Jack Malmostoso
Ciao Jesus Climent, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > Any progress on this? They never replied to me. I maybe write to some other address on the site. I will do it right now, and open a new thread if news come out. -- On Oct 5 1991, 8.53 AM; Linus Benedict Torvalds said: >I can (well, almost) hear yo

Re: Problems with partitioning

2005-01-15 Thread pharme
On Saturday, January 15, 2005 10:28 PM, sa9k063 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, >Sawn Hwang wrote: > >> cmd c - create new LINUX partition >> > >C (or c) only > >> (targeted to the partition number i have allocated for the >installation >> for Debian) >> >> 10p > >try >C10p >to create partition 10 >

Re: Problems with partitioning

2005-01-15 Thread sa9k063
Sawn Hwang wrote: cmd c - create new LINUX partition C (or c) only (targeted to the partition number i have allocated for the installation for Debian) 10p try C10p to create partition 10 instead. It will ask you for its name and type more help on partition names and types is ie. in http

Re: USB wireless 802.11g dongle

2005-01-15 Thread Jesus Climent
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 06:33:23PM +0100, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > Ciao Jack Malmostoso, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > > > http://home.arcor.de/ironpanther/usbstick/ > > > > would be nice to know if Mr.Ironpanther here is the author of the driver > > or is just "hosting" it for unknown reasons. >

Re: Problems with partitioning

2005-01-15 Thread pharme
On Saturday, January 15, 2005 4:30 PM, david howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, >there are many ways to do this, I suggest you read the ppc install howto >at >http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/install >for starters. I have printed a PDF version of the install manual. Chapter 6 indicates

Re: USB wireless 802.11g dongle

2005-01-15 Thread Jack Malmostoso
Ciao Jesus Climent, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > Any progress on this? They never replied to me. I maybe write to some other address on the site. I will do it right now, and open a new thread if news come out. -- On Oct 5 1991, 8.53 AM; Linus Benedict Torvalds said: >I can (well, almost) hear yo

Re: Problems with partitioning

2005-01-15 Thread pharme
On Saturday, January 15, 2005 10:28 PM, sa9k063 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, >Sawn Hwang wrote: > >> cmd c - create new LINUX partition >> > >C (or c) only > >> (targeted to the partition number i have allocated for the >installation >> for Debian) >> >> 10p > >try >C10p >to create partition 10 >

Re: Problems with partitioning

2005-01-15 Thread sa9k063
Sawn Hwang wrote: cmd c - create new LINUX partition C (or c) only (targeted to the partition number i have allocated for the installation for Debian) 10p try C10p to create partition 10 instead. It will ask you for its name and type more help on partition names and types is ie. in http://www.hk8.o

Re: USB wireless 802.11g dongle

2005-01-15 Thread Jesus Climent
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 06:33:23PM +0100, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > Ciao Jack Malmostoso, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > > > http://home.arcor.de/ironpanther/usbstick/ > > > > would be nice to know if Mr.Ironpanther here is the author of the driver > > or is just "hosting" it for unknown reasons. >

Re: Problems with partitioning

2005-01-15 Thread pharme
On Saturday, January 15, 2005 4:30 PM, david howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, >there are many ways to do this, I suggest you read the ppc install howto >at >http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/install >for starters. I have printed a PDF version of the install manual. Chapter 6 indicates

install docos for debian on dual g5

2005-01-15 Thread Dean Hamstead
the question of linux on dual g5s is so regular im wondering if someone could ut together some documents and link them off the debian ports page the existing linked documents were invaluable in my first few times of putting linux on mac hardware (much like the i386 install docos), so hat goes of

Re: G5 blade center under debian

2005-01-15 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am 15.01.2005 um 00:42 schrieb Anton Blanchard: Hi, I've just updated the installer image to have no POWER4+ optimization, but the language chooser seems to be broken. I've no idea why. Nice, it gets a lot further on POWER3 now :) It stops right here: time_init: decrementer frequency = 93

install docos for debian on dual g5

2005-01-15 Thread Dean Hamstead
the question of linux on dual g5s is so regular im wondering if someone could ut together some documents and link them off the debian ports page the existing linked documents were invaluable in my first few times of putting linux on mac hardware (much like the i386 install docos), so hat goes of to

Re: Problems with partitioning

2005-01-15 Thread david howe
there are many ways to do this, I suggest you read the ppc install howto at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/install for starters. from my experience with mac linux installs I find that setting up the hard disk with the mac HD tool is a good way to go, depending on how much space t

Problems with partitioning

2005-01-15 Thread Sawn Hwang
Good day to all, I am an absolute novice (5 days old) in Linux, with some years of experience with Mac OS. I am trying to install a Linux distro in an unproductive G3 Powerbook (New World Macs) Here's what i have done:. Using Mac OS Disk Utility partition my 12 GB harddrive to 2 partitions, both

Problems with partitioning

2005-01-15 Thread pharme
Good day to all, I am an absolute novice (5 days old) in Linux, with some years of experience with Mac OS. I am trying to install a Linux distro in an unproductive G3 Powerbook (New World Macs) Here's what i have done:. Using Mac OS Disk Utility partition my 12 GB harddrive to 2 partitions, both

Emacs: eshell can't receive C-q C-c ?

2005-01-15 Thread William Xuuu
Hi, folks. I'm using an ibook. When in eshell, it seems that eshell can't receive C-c signal to kill a process ? e.g, find and then try C-q C-c. It used to work fine on my pc. Any ideas? -- William

Re: G5 blade center under debian

2005-01-15 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am 15.01.2005 um 00:42 schrieb Anton Blanchard: Hi, I've just updated the installer image to have no POWER4+ optimization, but the language chooser seems to be broken. I've no idea why. Nice, it gets a lot further on POWER3 now :) It stops right here: time_init: decrementer frequency = 93.748235 MH

Re: Problems with partitioning

2005-01-15 Thread david howe
there are many ways to do this, I suggest you read the ppc install howto at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/install for starters. from my experience with mac linux installs I find that setting up the hard disk with the mac HD tool is a good way to go, depending on how much space the

Problems with partitioning

2005-01-15 Thread Sawn Hwang
Good day to all, I am an absolute novice (5 days old) in Linux, with some years of experience with Mac OS. I am trying to install a Linux distro in an unproductive G3 Powerbook (New World Macs) Here's what i have done:. Using Mac OS Disk Utility partition my 12 GB harddrive to 2 partitions, both

Problems with partitioning

2005-01-15 Thread pharme
Good day to all, I am an absolute novice (5 days old) in Linux, with some years of experience with Mac OS. I am trying to install a Linux distro in an unproductive G3 Powerbook (New World Macs) Here's what i have done:. Using Mac OS Disk Utility partition my 12 GB harddrive to 2 partitions, both

Emacs: eshell can't receive C-q C-c ?

2005-01-15 Thread William Xuuu
Hi, folks. I'm using an ibook. When in eshell, it seems that eshell can't receive C-c signal to kill a process ? e.g, find and then try C-q C-c. It used to work fine on my pc. Any ideas? -- William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac