On 2008-09-13, Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 09 2008, Stephen Allen wrote:
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 07:45:21PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Congratulation on getting it working! That's great news.
Thanks Rick for all your help !
Please, if you put it there, let me know where
On 2008-09-13, Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 12 2008, SDA wrote:
Hm. I'm going to pull the Belkin USB 1.0 card I have in another G3
pizza box, and put in this one. I guess we'll see if Xorg handles it
OK. I'll let you know how it goes.
Please let us know how the card works.
On 2008-09-14, SDA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2008-09-13, Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 12 2008, SDA wrote:
Hm. I'm going to pull the Belkin USB 1.0 card I have in another G3
pizza box, and put in this one. I guess we'll see if Xorg handles it
OK. I'll let you know how it
On Sep 09 2008, Stephen Allen wrote:
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 07:45:21PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Congratulation on getting it working! That's great news.
Thanks Rick for all your help !
Please, if you put it there, let me know where it is. The proper way to
do things would be to merge the
On Sep 12 2008, SDA wrote:
Hm. I'm going to pull the Belkin USB 1.0 card I have in another G3
pizza box, and put in this one. I guess we'll see if Xorg handles it
OK. I'll let you know how it goes.
Please let us know how the card works. BTW, you probably would like to
add something like a
On 2008-09-13, Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 09 2008, Stephen Allen wrote:
Please, if you put it there, let me know where it is. The proper way to
do things would be to merge the proper instructions in the Debian
installation manual.
Um OK. I could send you the copy in plain
On 2008-09-13, Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 12 2008, SDA wrote:
Hm. I'm going to pull the Belkin USB 1.0 card I have in another G3
pizza box, and put in this one. I guess we'll see if Xorg handles it
OK. I'll let you know how it goes.
Please let us know how the card works.
On 2008-09-10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/9/10, Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[ ...]
Is your card different from stock ?
Hi Risto, please excuse the delay in responding.
This is of interest for me, too... it reminds me...
My G3 is a desktop model (233 MHz, rev B)
2008/9/10, Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 05:16:35PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
That's good news. I have tried to get xorg and gnome running on my test
machine, but it seems that the video chip it has isn't very well
supported. I need to open a bug report on the
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On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:17:55AM +0100, Nicholas Helps wrote:
Hello Stephen (and everyone else),
Howdy Nicholas,
Being polite this time ;-)
Glad the step by step worked. Please make sure you acknowledge Rick as well,
without this help, I would never have gotten my install working
On Sep 9, 2008, at 7:30 AM, Stephen Allen wrote:
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:17:55AM +0100, Nicholas Helps wrote:
Hello Stephen (and everyone else),
Howdy Nicholas,
Being polite this time ;-)
Glad the step by step worked. Please make sure you acknowledge
Rick as well, without this
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 07:34:43PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/9/8, Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[ ...]
The other IDE socket has probably the CD drive (hdc)? Maybe the spare
drive has been as a slave in its earlier life? In Linux, hda/b are
master/slave on primary ide bus, and
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 05:16:35PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
That's good news. I have tried to get xorg and gnome running on my test
machine, but it seems that the video chip it has isn't very well
supported. I need to open a bug report on the subject.
I have 2 video cards in it. Back in
2008/9/7, Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
OK kept the MacOS partition(s). There are 7 of em put there by the MacOS 9
disk utility (6 small ones).
In Apple's partitioning, the 1st partition contains the partition map,
then there are typically 5 driver partitions used by Mac OS, and then
the
Hello Stephen / all,
Here is a post I put on some time ago about this (Stephen, this is the post I
mentioned). There is a preamble and then the step by step that worked for me. I
have added a little bit about the space you will leave for Debian on your HD.
This was not in the original post.
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 12:30:42AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Stephen,
You are so close, I can almost taste it all the way up here in New
Jersey!
Yeah we're pretty close. LOL
It's too late tonite, but Monday or Tuesday, unless you succeed before
then, I'll put a spare disk in one of my
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:29:21AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/9/7, Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
OK kept the MacOS partition(s). There are 7 of em put there by the MacOS 9
disk utility (6 small ones).
In Apple's partitioning, the 1st partition contains the partition map,
2008/9/8, Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
It's been a long time since I ever used this in production. I recall that
there had been a scsi hard drive
in this box, and I had removed the stock IDE hard drive shortly after
purchasing. When I pulled this out
of storage in my basement several
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:41:09AM +0100, Nicholas Helps wrote:
Hello Stephen / all,
Hi Nicholas:
So, here is the way I got it to work
[ ...]
Excellent instructions, thanks very much Nicholas ! I'm writing this from
my G3 Beige booted into Lenny-Debian using mutt. :) I'm a happy camper.
On Sep 8, 2008, at 6:38 PM, Stephen Allen wrote:
Nicolas, do you mind if I add these instructions to the Debian
Wiki ? I'll
be sure to give full attribution.
Congratulation on getting it working! That's great news.
I have a couple of things to add to Nicholas' SxS that will help
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 07:45:21PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Congratulation on getting it working! That's great news.
Thanks Rick for all your help !
I have a couple of things to add to Nicholas' SxS that will help
first-timers get it right the first time.
Good idea ! The only one there
On Sep 8, 2008, at 9:32 PM, Stephen Allen wrote:
I thought getting XOrg running would be tricky (don't have much
experience with window
managers as I usually run headless with a console) but it was
pretty easy to get it
configured. I just had to run 'dpkg-reconfigure Xorg' make some
2008/9/7, Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The install is where I had the issue(s), of going through the steps and
hanging when it came to installing
the quik bootloader. I don't understand why it's install quick as I thought
that BootX would be used.
You should try to skip the quik
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 10:42:36AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/9/7, Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[ ...]
In terms of the disk partioning. Is the MacOS partition supposed to be
overwritten and that's why the
installer wants to install Quik ? I can't seem to find an option to
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 10:42:36AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/9/7, Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The install is where I had the issue(s), of going through the steps and
hanging when it came to installing
the quik bootloader. I don't understand why it's install quick as I
Stephen,
You are so close, I can almost taste it all the way up here in New
Jersey!
It's too late tonite, but Monday or Tuesday, unless you succeed
before then, I'll put a spare disk in one of my Beige G3s and walk
myself thru the steps, writing down each step as I do it. If that
2008/9/4, Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
(4) Run BootX application (alternatively install BootX extension, and
reboot).
OK I did this, got a shell and then a kernel panic, and a reboot message for
3 minutes.
Probably because of the kernel being in the wrong place eh ?
I don't think so.
hi
reading this email again makes me wonder if this step has been omitted:
Insert the PPC install disk and navigate to the /install/powerpc folder.
Copy vmlinux (the linux kernel) to System Folder/Linux Kernels. Copy
initrd.gz (the init ramdisk image) to System Folder and rename it to
2008/9/6, James Kozak [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
hi
reading this email again makes me wonder if this step has been omitted:
Insert the PPC install disk and navigate to the /install/powerpc folder.
Copy vmlinux (the linux kernel) to System Folder/Linux Kernels. Copy
initrd.gz (the init ramdisk
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 12:04:09AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/9/6, James Kozak [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
hi
reading this email again makes me wonder if this step has been omitted:
Insert the PPC install disk and navigate to the /install/powerpc folder.
Copy vmlinux (the linux
--- On Sat, 9/6/08, Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In terms of the disk partioning. Is the MacOS partition
supposed to be overwritten and that's why the
installer wants to install Quik ? I can't seem to find
an option to toggle Quik off.
--
I believe it is possible to
Greetings:
I've been attempting to get Debian-PPC installed on this machine for several
days now, without much luck.
I've searched for an install 'how-to' and settled on the G3-Beige how to on
the Debian Wiki. There is a
lot of conflicting advice on installing on these old world machines in
A Wednesday 3 September 2008 14:22:01, Stephen Allen escreveu:
I've searched for an install 'how-to' and settled on the G3-Beige how to
on the Debian Wiki. There is a lot of conflicting advice on installing on
these old world machines in the wild, and it's quite confusing. Some say
not to use
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:28:38PM +0200, José JORGE wrote:
A Wednesday 3 September 2008 14:22:01, Stephen Allen escreveu:
I've searched for an install 'how-to' and settled on the G3-Beige how to
on the Debian Wiki. There is a lot of conflicting advice on installing on
these old world
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:54:47AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:28:38PM +0200, Jos? JORGE wrote:
As far as I know, G3 is not oldworld.
The earliest G3 systems were oldworld. In particular, the beige PowerMac G3
desktop systems and the first few models of PowerBook
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:28:38PM +0200, Jos? JORGE wrote:
A Wednesday 3 September 2008 14:22:01, Stephen Allen escreveu:
I've searched for an install 'how-to' and settled on the G3-Beige how to
on the Debian Wiki. There is a lot of conflicting advice on installing on
these old world
Hi Stephen,
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 12:22:01 +
Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would appreciate if the experts here could help me out -- Here's what I've
tried so far;
Using the Debian-Etch-PPC net install CD, I booted up with my MacOS 9
CD. However when booted with
Stephen,
I used to do quite a lot of this kind of stuff.
Search the debian-powerpc and debian-boot archives for my name
(rbthomas) and Boot-X. I posted (about Sarge timeframe) several
how-to articles on using MacOS-9 and Boot-X to install Debian on a
beige-G3-tower. It does not require
Hi Stephen,
In your place, I would take the following route:
In OS 9:
(1) download BootX from
http://penguinppc.org/historical/benh/BootX_1.2.2.sit, and install it,
(2) download Debian kernel and initrd from
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 09:54:21PM +0200, Simon Vallet wrote:
Hi Stephen,
Hey Simon, thanks for the help.
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 12:22:01 +
Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ ...]
I don't have a Linux workstation available to make boot floppies; Can these
boot floppies be made
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 05:12:27PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Stephen,
I used to do quite a lot of this kind of stuff.
Search the debian-powerpc and debian-boot archives for my name
(rbthomas) and Boot-X. I posted (about Sarge timeframe) several
how-to articles on using MacOS-9 and
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 12:32:43AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Stephen,
Hi Risto:
In your place, I would take the following route:
In OS 9:
(1) download BootX from
http://penguinppc.org/historical/benh/BootX_1.2.2.sit, and install it,
(2) download Debian kernel and initrd
On Sep 3, 2008, at 10:32 PM, Stephen Allen wrote:
Thanks Rick, I'll take a look. It is indeed somewhat fun.
My wife thinks I'm nuts, but I agree -- it's fun getting old obscure
hardware to do new tricks!
Rick
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