Re: Install on OldWorld

2005-10-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 06:41:45AM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:37:13PM +0200, Jérôme Warnier wrote: So where are we? What about the miboot floppy images? Did we progress? I have several OldWorld waiting to be freed here. :-) It is clear that miboot and

Install on OldWorld

2005-10-27 Thread Jérôme Warnier
So where are we? What about the miboot floppy images? Did we progress? I have several OldWorld waiting to be freed here. :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Install on OldWorld

2005-10-27 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:37:13PM +0200, Jérôme Warnier wrote: So where are we? What about the miboot floppy images? Did we progress? I have several OldWorld waiting to be freed here. :-) It is clear that miboot and the official 2.6.12 kernel sources works fine together. And that it is

Re: Trying to install on oldworld powermac

2004-01-18 Thread Fraser Campbell
On January 17, 2004 03:19 am, Brad Boyer wrote: same place as a PC (lower left), I have an alt/option key to the right of that and then a blank key to the right of that ... is the blank (3rd from left) key the command key? Yes. Most Mac keyboards have the bottom row as

Re: Trying to install on oldworld powermac

2004-01-18 Thread christian funk
Hi Fraser, some pointers (if you haven't found them yet): I did get woody's installer up and running from BootX but I want to get rid of MacOS entirely. My understanding is that I should be able to use the Quik bootloader, bypassing the need for MacOS/BootX. Yes, quik should work fine when

Re: Trying to install on oldworld powermac

2004-01-17 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:11:13PM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote: - I can just make out that open firmware is onscreen when I boot but unfortunately I cannot read anything else. My monitor displays about 6 copies of openfirware screen in narrow vertical bands, there's some shake and it's

Re: Trying to install on oldworld powermac

2004-01-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On (16/01/04 23:11), Fraser Campbell wrote: I'm trying to install Debian (woody, sid or sarge) on a beige G3 powermac. I know next to nothing about the hardware and that's leading me into trouble. So much to learn ... I've been using Linux for almost 11 years, on PCs, Suns, Cobalts,

Re: Trying to install on oldworld powermac

2004-01-17 Thread Simon Vallet
Hi, - I can just make out that open firmware is onscreen when I boot but unfortunately I cannot read anything else. My monitor displays about 6 copies of openfirware screen in narrow vertical bands, there's some shake and it's too fuzzy to understand any of the output. No ideas for

Trying to install on oldworld powermac

2004-01-16 Thread Fraser Campbell
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian (woody, sid or sarge) on a beige G3 powermac. I know next to nothing about the hardware and that's leading me into trouble. So much to learn ... I've been using Linux for almost 11 years, on PCs, Suns, Cobalts, embedded devices, etc. Now with a Mac in front

Re: Woody floppy install on OldWorld Mac

2001-12-03 Thread Michel Lanners
On 2 Dec, this message from Kevin van Haaren echoed through cyberspace: Hi, everyone. I'm trying to install Woody onto a Performa 6400/180 that runs MacOS 8.1 on an HFS-formatted disk. I'm using the disk images from

Re: Woody floppy install on OldWorld Mac

2001-12-02 Thread Kevin van Haaren
At 8:39 AM -0600 12/1/01, Kevin van Haaren wrote: At 2:31 AM -0500 12/1/01, Michael Dartt wrote: Hi, everyone. I'm trying to install Woody onto a Performa 6400/180 that runs MacOS 8.1 on an HFS-formatted disk. I'm using the disk images from

Re: Woody floppy install on OldWorld Mac

2001-12-01 Thread Kevin van Haaren
At 2:31 AM -0500 12/1/01, Michael Dartt wrote: Hi, everyone. I'm trying to install Woody onto a Performa 6400/180 that runs MacOS 8.1 on an HFS-formatted disk. I'm using the disk images from ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/images-1.44/, with

Woody floppy install on OldWorld Mac

2001-12-01 Thread Michael Dartt
Hi, everyone. I'm trying to install Woody onto a Performa 6400/180 that runs MacOS 8.1 on an HFS-formatted disk. I'm using the disk images from ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/images-1.44/, with the exception of boot-floppy-hfs.img, which is