RE: RS/6000 and other systems

2000-02-01 Thread Andreas Reeh
> -Original Message- > From: Hartmut Koptein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 5:02 PM > To: Debian-PowerPC ML > Subject: RS/6000 and other systems > We need people who do tests with the current boot-floppies. And we need > reports abo

Re: RS/6000 and other systems

2000-01-05 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> > Many thanks also for the other people that will do some tests. > > I echo my question of where ones newer than October are publicly available. Net yet, sorry. We must first generate new kernel-iamges. > > For kevin: your mail-address isn't reachable. > > What did you get? [EMAIL PROT

Re: RS/6000 and other systems

2000-01-05 Thread Kevin Puetz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Many thanks also for the other people that will do some tests. I echo my question of where ones newer than October are publicly available. > For kevin: your mail-address isn't reachable. What did you get? [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be it, and *should* work. I just

Re: RS/6000 and other systems

2000-01-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On 4/1/2000 Hartmut Koptein wrote: We need people who do tests with the current boot-floppies. And we need reports about it. What does work, what not. I need reports for prep and power-mac systems. I need also help in what system goes in what categories as chrp, pmac and prep. I tried

Re: RS/6000 and other systems

2000-01-05 Thread Pásztor György
Hi, On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > 7248-133 (i.e rs6000 43p). i guess yours is a simmilar machine and what > We need people who do tests with the current boot-floppies. And we need > reports about it. What does work, what not. > I need reports for prep and power-mac systems.

Re: RS/6000 and other systems

2000-01-04 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> > > > Which rs/6k is chrp, which one is prep??? > > IIRC 40P / 43P brand names cover a wide range of workstations, > > 40P was a pre release PC like workstation and should be PReP > > 7248-100,7248-120,7248-132 are PReP and boot a PPC kernel > > 7043-140,7043-240 should still be PReP, but

Re: RS/6000 and other systems

2000-01-04 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> I've tested the instlation floppies on a mac8500. Ahh, good. > Currently the rescue floppy is unreadable. > > when you fdflush /dev/fd0 it gives you error 115 Hmmm, this is a new bug. > When you install the base system, it reads the first floppy you stick in > the computer just fine, but aft

Re: RS/6000 and other systems

2000-01-04 Thread Ginsburg
I've tested the instlation floppies on a mac8500. Currently the rescue floppy is unreadable. when you fdflush /dev/fd0 it gives you error 115 When you install the base system, it reads the first floppy you stick in the computer just fine, but after that it thinks every other disk is the first di

Re: RS/6000 and other systems

2000-01-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Hartmut Koptein wrote: > We need people who do tests with the current boot-floppies. And we need > reports about it. What does work, what not. > > I need reports for prep and power-mac systems. > > I need also help in what system goes in what categories as chrp, pmac and > prep. > > >

Re: RS/6000 and other systems

2000-01-04 Thread Alberto Varesio
Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > Which rs/6k is chrp, which one is prep??? IIRC 40P / 43P brand names cover a wide range of workstations, 40P was a pre release PC like workstation and should be PReP 7248-100,7248-120,7248-132 are PReP and boot a PPC kernel 7043-140,7043-240 should still be PReP, b

RS/6000 and other systems

2000-01-04 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> i'm starting soon on ppc too and collect some basic infos for my > 7248-133 (i.e rs6000 43p). i guess yours is a simmilar machine and what > you need is in http://www.debian.org/~porter/ for PPreP systems. if not, > i'm out of info... We need people who do tests with the current boot-floppies.