Re: serial printer and old world

2004-06-06 Thread J. MacPhail
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 06:00:03PM +0200, karim wrote: > Hello, > I have tried to make work a laser writer 8/600 and a style writer 2 a > pmac 8200 (7200) and failed on a yellow dog at first, and then on the > debian. > Cups and foomatic are installed, but it's not ok. > I have googled a lot and

Re: xcdroast-scsi bus

2004-02-23 Thread J. MacPhail
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 04:20:05PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Regarding 'finding' devices later on so xcdroast doesn't whine: there > should be a script 'rescan-scsi-bus.sh' with xcdroast. Failing this, just > do > > echo "scsi-add-single-device 0 0 n 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi > > where n is t

Re: Unable to install/boot debian from G3(beige) desktop

2004-01-30 Thread J. MacPhail
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 05:39:58PM -0800, JT wrote: > Hello compatriots/teachers, > > I'm trying to install debian on a standard Apple PowerMac G3 desktop(233MHz, > internal 4G ATA drive) and I've successfully gotten a network install to the > point where it's time to make the hard drive bootable.

which kernel-image to use?

2004-01-30 Thread J. MacPhail
Compared with the situation a year or two ago, installing ALSA is becoming quite easy, partly thanks to a nice explanation in /usr/share/doc/alsa-source/README.Debian.gz of how to build to match a kernel-image. Both alsa-source and kernel-patch-*-powerpc are in quite good shape! But I had some tr