On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 19:59, Christian Müller wrote:
@Sven: 20051031 boot.img works, but it will not throw out the floppy
when it asks for the second disk root.bin - there is no soft eject
command issued, I guess. As you surely know, apple forgot the
hard-eject knob on most of their floppy
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 09:47, Dimitri Apostola wrote:
I was wondering -- the Installation Manual for using OldWorld Macs and
hard drive booting says to use the Woody installation files, and those
seem to work alright, but the directory structure on the FTP has
naturally changed between Woody
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 20:47, Patrick Bachmann wrote:
Hi Holger,
Thanks for your reply.
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:36 pm, Holger Levsen wrote:
Hmmm... this is the woody floppy and it should work, I guess this might by
a floppy media issue - try another floppy.
Well, I went to
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 12:33, Brad Boyer wrote:
Would we be able to use the patch drivers if someone convinced
Apple to give us permission to redistribute them? This is old,
obsolete stuff, after all. If we could even put them in a special,
non-free package, it could be usable.
I'll see what
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 09:25, Thomas Carlson wrote:
I have been using Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 on my old Powermac 9500 for
quite a while. Except for problems with serial-port printing, I have
been happy with it. Now, with the new 4.0 release, YDL has ceased to
officially support pre-G3
On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 05:18, Sven Luther wrote:
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 11:11:49PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Now, is the loss under 2.6 of the HFS .finderinfo and .resource
pseudo-directories a bug, or a feature?
You probably need to load the hfs+ driver ?
If that doesn't solve it for
I tried the new 2.4 PowerMac floppys today. Now I get the Red X on
the 2.4 boot floppy as well.
I did an experiment...
I mounted the 2.4 boot floppy and extracted the zImage file,
uncompressed it, and compared it to the 2.4.25-powerpc-small kernel.
They both claim to be the same kernel in that
On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 02:24, Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 01:54:09AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 12:08 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 05:00 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
happy floppy disk reading noises.
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 05:48, Sven Luther wrote:
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 11:25:58AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
Hello,
I have uploaded oldworld 2.6 miboot floppies at :
http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/miboot
Could people please test them, as i don't have the hardware for it.
Nick,
Please fill out an installation report so this gets into the bug
tracking system. Without a bug-track record, it will be ignored by the
developers.
The depressing truth is that most developers are too busy to deal with
the volume of mail in these mailing lists, so the only way to get
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 14:54, Christian Leimer wrote:
Anyone out there with an oldworld had luck with the
kernel-image-2.6.7-powerpc froms sarge?
I don't use quik, so this may not be relevant to your situation, but I
find that with BootX, the 2.6.7 kernel works just fine on my beige G3
Richard,
Maybe the best use you could make of your remaining machines is to send
one or two of them to Sven for use in debugging oldworld-powermac
installation problems.
Is this possible?
Rick
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 02:03, Sven Luther wrote:
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 09:18:03PM -0400,
On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 05:43, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
The best way I've found to boot OldWorld Macs is with BootX, a little
I already mentioned, that MacOS is not an option. I want to donate the
whole disk to Linux and I'm unsure about the licensing: I inherited
these boxes with a MacOs 8.6
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 13:16, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
Hello,
I recently inherited several (4) oldworld 7600 Powermacs, one of them
132MHz, the others 120. I have successfully installed woody on one of
them using a boot floppy.
The floppy booting is a *very* erroneous process, I was
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