Re: booting gparted live cd

On 10-07-13 08:46 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: Depending on how much RAM you have, you might like to use a live CD (like Ubuntu's) and run gparted from there (without mounting any partition from your hard drive, of course). If you're going use Ubuntu, download the Alternative CD. The Desktop CD

Re: video problem on powerbook g4 in squeeze

On 10-07-12 11:27 AM, drz wrote: symptoms: If I watch video (no matter which player I use (mplayer and vlc)) I get a picture that is vertically 'distorted'. Kind of every 5 pixels (horizontically) the picture is moved 5 pixels (vertically) Does it look like this? http://sites.google.com/site/

Re: Auto-booting USB stick in OF

Risto Suominen wrote: Hi, Strictly speaking, this is not a Debian issue, not even Linux, but since I don't know of any Open Firmware list, and it may be just a matter of time before someone else tries this... I wrote the following two lines into OF nvramrc parameter with 'nvedit' (Read this to

Re: Partition and Boot loader for Squeeze on G4

Rick Thomas wrote: On Apr 26, 2010, at 7:10 AM, Shawn H Corey wrote: PowerPCs always use yaboot. Does yaboot know enough about LVMs and RAIDs to find the kernel and initrd in a root partition that's in a logical volume on a software raid-1? I never used yaboot with RAID so I wou

Re: Partition and Boot loader for Squeeze on G4

Frédéric Massot wrote: Do you know why there is a package Grub2 PPC (aka grub-ieee1275), it is for what computer? I never heard of GRUB for the PPCs so I never tried it. If you use it, please post your results. :) -- Just my 0.0002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as muc

Re: Partition and Boot loader for Squeeze on G4

Frédéric Massot wrote: Hi, 4 years ago, I installed Debian with a software RAID 1 on a G4 for an LDAP server. In the end, I did not use the G4 and it remained in a closet. I would again make use of this G4 server with a software RAID 1 and LVM, I use the Squeeze installer. - Is it always t

Re: Where is libxfconf-0?

On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:03:56 + Clive Menzies wrote: > Beware, thar be dragons :-) > > That you're asking these questions suggests it is a bit early for you > to consider upgrading to sid (he's the one in Toy Story who breaks > toys in spectacular fashion) aka unstable. > > I guess you're ru

Re: yaboot failure on external drive

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:44:46 -0400 Greg Ward wrote: > yaboot-installer: mkofboot: Please add ofboot= where > is the OpenFirmware path to /dev/sda2 to /etc/yaboot.conf > > Well that sounds straightforward... /dev/sda is my firewire disk > (the internal disk is /dev/hda -- this Mac is pre

Re: Where is libxfconf-0?

On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:24:50 +0100 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Shawn H Corey [100326 14:41 -0400] > > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:23:34 +0100 > > Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > > > * Shawn H Corey [100326 14:18 -0400] > > > [..

Re: Where is libxfconf-0?

On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:23:34 +0100 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Shawn H Corey [100326 14:18 -0400] > [...] > > $ apt-cache search libxfconf > > $ > > > > Apparently, it's not in my /etc/apt/sources.list > > Where can I find it? > > In sid. OK, i

Re: Where is libxfconf-0?

On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:59:10 +0100 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Shawn H Corey [100326 11:46 -0400] > > Hi, > > > > I have recently install Lenny with Xfce on my PowerPC. > > Unfortunately, it did not come with Suspend. I downloaded > > xfce4-power-manager

Where is libxfconf-0?

Hi, I have recently install Lenny with Xfce on my PowerPC. Unfortunately, it did not come with Suspend. I downloaded xfce4-power-manager but it needs libxfconf-0, which I can't find. Does anyone know where I can get this? -- Just my 0.0002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is a

Problems Creating A Rescue/Live USB Drive

Hi, I'm trying to create a Rescue/Live USB drive and I'm following the instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/installation-guide/powerpc/boot-usb-files.html but they don't seem right. I took the following steps: 1. Plug in the USB drive 2. Unmount it: sudo umount /media/usb_drive 3. Cre

Getting LXDE Debain

Hi, I'm currently running Ubuntu 9.10 on my PowerBook G4 and I'm tried of it's flakiness and the GNOME bloat. I found this image and I was wondering if anyone had any experience with it. http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.4/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-504-powerpc-xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso Is there anyt

Re: Bash shell hangs on lenny (powerpc)

Raghavendra Uppalapati wrote: > Hi All, > > > > When I tried to run Lenny on MPC8358 powerpc based board, it hangs. > > Ctrl-C, Ctrl-Z are not working. And I cannot return to bash shell. > > Shell is not responding , but serial console accepts characters. > > Does anybody have same kind o

Mount error during boot

Hi, My hard disk was corrupted and I lost some of my mounts. There was a message about it during boot but it goes by so fast, I can't read it. I also don't know what log file it would be in. How do I find it? Techie stuff: I running Ubuntu 9.10 on a PowerBook G4. $ mount /dev/hda3 on / type

Re: Booting from USB Drive

Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I have a PowerBook G4. Is there any way to get it to boot from USB drive. > > IIUC it depends on your "PowerBook G4". E.g. my PowerBook 12" G4 was > not able to boot from USB last time I tried. But admittedly, I only > tried using the "boot menu" rather than via OF comm

Re: Booting from USB Drive

Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: AFAIK it's possible from within OpenFirmware. But there are no easy aliases to access your USB drive. This you'll have to dig into OpenFirmware commands. Probably you will also need a HFS partition with yaboot on it on your stick because OpenFirmware can only read from

Booting from USB Drive

Hi, I have a PowerBook G4. Is there any way to get it to boot from USB drive. I can set it up but I need the correct initrd.gz to make it work. Has anyone tried this? Can anyone suggest a web site? -- Just my 0.0002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as much about organiza

Re: Fan control ?

Niels S. Eliasen wrote: top - 14:25:43 up 17:31, 5 users, load average: 0.17, 0.11, 0.06 Tasks: 180 total, 1 running, 179 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 3.9%us, 1.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 94.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.3%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 1033084k total, 986920k used,46164k free,

Re: Fan control ?

Niels S. Eliasen wrote: No .. it is not hot.. warm.. yes!.. but more like "warm as in working..." ... but hot no! If so, then the question is what is the machine doing that its CPU is running all the time? hmmm "something" is obviously running that causes this... but what exactly...

Re: Fan control ?

Niels S. Eliasen wrote: hi guys I have a small problem with my Lenny install on a TiBook(400Mhz) The fan is always running And as much as I expect it to come whenever needed... Having it on even though you have a load of "0,00 0,00 0,01" ... is a bit too much Any ideas ?? The

Re: Switching from Ubuntu

Rogério Brito wrote: When did this happen? During a stable release? I would think not, but, then, I wouldn't make any assurances. :-) I would bet that the opposite would be "the current way" that things are going (not that I have powerful hardware---I'm still quite happy with some 8 or 9 y.o. ca

Re: view flash website

Benjamin Cama wrote: The only solution, if you want the original Adobe stuff, would be for them to open-source it, but I am very doubtfull about it. The strange thing is that Adobe did open source Postscript and PDF. Why don't they do Flash too? -- Just my 0.0002 million dollars worth,

Re: Switching from Ubuntu

Andrzej Mendel wrote: I'd say that if all you want is a desktop machine then stick to Ubuntu, maybe upgrade to a newer version and see if it fixes your problems. What exactly makes you unsatisfied? Debian uses Gnome as default (at least it used to the last time I used it on a desktop). How do you

Switching from Ubuntu

Hi, I have a PowerBook G4 and I running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. I am not completely satisfied with it and I am thinking of converting to Debain. Just how different is the 'Official CD/DVD images of the "stable" release' from Ubuntu? Does it use GNOME?

PowerBook G4 has video problems when booted

Hi, I have a PowerBook G4 Titanium running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. When I reboot it it doesn't always set the graphics mode correctly. The yaboot starts and I can read the text but when it switches to graphics, I get a speculated dark blue screen. The computer (otherwise) seems to boot properly, at le

Re: 12" G4 Powerbook with heat issues

On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 02:02 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > On 07/06/2008, Matthew Ray wrote: > > /sys/devices/temperature/sensor*temperatures > > JFTR: /sys/devices/temperatures/sensor*temperature > > > which reports 52 and 67 C and the fan runs frequently. I opened it up > > and it runs at 50

Re: Not building for powerpc any more

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 14:07 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15 2008, at 10:23 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 16:46 -0400, El Amigo De La Playa wrote: > > > -Are we talking about the death of the ppc mailing-list, or the death > > > of Debian PPC branch ? > > >

New Member

Hi, I have recently signed up to your mailing list and would like to introduce myself. (I have been lurking for a few days to get a feel for this list.) I have been using computers for many, many years and UNIX since S5R4. And yes, that means I have done some sysadmin. (I even have a B man