Re: installing Debian on an OldWorld PowerMac

2003-03-13 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
I got a lot of help a month ago installing it on a 7100/80 I didn't have any success, but that is only because I don't have a copy of MACOS I think I may be able to help. ___ Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. General George Catlett Marshall - Original Message - Fro

Re: bloat tolerance?

2003-01-30 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
I don't quite understand the issue. - Original Message - From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ross Vumbaca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 2:02 AM Subject: Re: bloat tolerance? > >> This is kind of a survey

Woody Install Won't Reboot (of course)

2003-01-27 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
Thanks for everybody's help. I rebooted my machine and it flashes a floppy disk on the screen because it can't find the operating system: Just like everybody finally said it would do.   If anybody can help me find whatever version of MACOS will go on a Power PC 7100/80 with 24 MB Ram I'd app

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-27 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
if I start with the CD's I still don't know what quik is and I'll be researching that, because if it works with mine it sounds like the best option. But until I get the MACOS CD's i'm going to take a rest for a while. Thanks for your help. Take your time to respond to m

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-24 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
For anyone who can help, I don't know anything about my hardware and the installation is asking me for my device driver disk. I assume it is not in the standard woody or potato directories, and that I have to gather them from near and far. I don't have my installation disks for MAC OS so if I have

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-23 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
So if I fdisk-ed everything yesterday (my computer is still on), and even though when it started it said "you cannot delete the drivers, yet" it ultimately let me clear off the whole hard drive If I reboot I'm dead in the water right? I don't have the MACOS installation disks I screwed up on

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-23 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
"swap" But of course that didn't work Where is a resource for how to use mac-fdisk? - Original Message - From: "Brad Boyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Philip Larkin Waters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-23 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
body knows why an AppleTalk dongle talks fine over a cross-over cable, but won't find my corporate gateway through a Hub, then a switch, to a NAT server when PC on the same segment does fine, please let me know... Thanks > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 04:52:35PM -0700, Philip Larkin Waters

MkLinux Freezes

2003-01-22 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
I am trying to put MachKernel on a PPC 7100/80 (NuBus) and it freezes on setup_arch()   what is this, and can you help me know how to fix it?

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-22 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
I think that it is the basic concept that I am having trouble with. when I hear words like "boot loader" and "distribution" and "kernel" and "source" I'm not exactly sure which is which and which pieces I have. I don't know which I still need, and which terms are synonymous and I don't have to wor

Re: Who's in charge?

2003-01-15 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
strike that, you already are, i spelled it wrong, but if anybody is interested in submitting to that category let me know and contact me by email - Original Message - From: Philip Larkin Waters To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003

Who's in charge?

2003-01-15 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
Hi all?   I was just wondering who is the cheif of the debain project. Also, would it be effective to be included in the Open Directory Project search engine?   I am the category editor for the  powerpc - linux  category

What is /dev/ram

2003-01-15 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
ev/ram   and what is /dev/sb whatever ..5 that I got before?   and what does set rootdev mean?   - Original Message - From: Clive Menzies To: Philip Larkin Waters ; debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 9:46 AM Subject: Re: Got this

Re: Got this far on a 7100/80

2003-01-15 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
.conf manually, when I tried to use the control panel it told me "Mklinux - a system error occured") - Original Message - From: Clive Menzies To: Philip Larkin Waters ; debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 3:19 AM Subject: R

Re: Got this far on a 7100/80

2003-01-15 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
Title: Re: Got this far on a 7100/80 What is Woody? At 5:05 pm -0700 14/1/03, Philip Larkin Waters wrote: So, I used the Mach Kernel and the Apple Bootloader and I actually got some results!   It was kinda cool... in any event I got the following error:   VFS

Got this far on a 7100/80

2003-01-14 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
So, I used the Mach Kernel and the Apple Bootloader and I actually got some results!   It was kinda cool... in any event I got the following error:   VFS Cannot open root device sdb5 or 08:15 Please appand a correct "root=" boot option   kernel panic VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:15  

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-14 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
ist" Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 1:56 PM Subject: Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot > At about 12:50 PM -0700 on 1/13/03, Marc Stergionis wrote: > >At about 1:08 PM -0500 on 1/13/03, Allan Streib wrote: > >>Don't know. My 6500 is a PCI machine. I only have 32 MB R

Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-14 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
e. I only have 32 MB RAM, though. > >>> > >>>Allan > >>> > >>>On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Philip Larkin Waters wrote: > >>> > >>>> So if it prompts me for nothing after I try to boot from the > >>>>.img file, that &

PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot

2003-01-13 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
riginal Message - From: "Allan Streib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Philip Larkin Waters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 11:01 AM Subject: Re: installing woody on PowerMac 6500 w/3c905 PCI NIC > I made the disks using rawrite on on a Wi

Re: installing woody on PowerMac 6500 w/3c905 PCI NIC

2003-01-13 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
sts/woody/main/disks-powerpc/3.0.23-200 2-05-21/powermac/images-1.44/ > > Allan > > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Philip Larkin Waters wrote: > > > Where did you get the floppy disk images? > > > > ----- Original Message - > > From: "Allan Streib" <

7100/80

2002-11-22 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
I have a Power PC 7100/80 ( I think) and I've been trying to put YellowDog Linux on it, but it gets to the boot screen and won't let me get any farther. I haven't played with it for a while so that is all the detail I can give. Anybody have any suggestions (I need a smaller kernel that doesn't requ