Re: gcc in woody?

2001-11-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 09:37, Joseph Fannin wrote: Um, is it just me, or is there no compiler in woody? Until I found this list, I was beginning to think the powerpc port was no longer maintained. It sounds like people are running woody, tho What about sid? I assume

woody boot-floppies

2001-11-02 Thread ozymandias G desiderata
Hi! I'm trying to install woody onto a G4 Cube using Ethan's current preferred method (drop the relevant files on the root of the relevant volume, craft a yaboot.conf, reboot into OF, etc) using the current version of boot-floppies. Here is the entirety of my yaboot.conf: image=linux label

Re: woody boot-floppies

2001-11-02 Thread ozymandias G desiderata
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 03:32:25PM -0800, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: Hi! I'm trying to install woody onto a G4 Cube using Ethan's current preferred method... OK, sorry to waste everyone's time, I had not sufficiently RTFM and hadn't noticed the bit about not being able to load from

Re: woody boot-floppies

2001-11-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 03:32:25PM -0800, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: Hi! I'm trying to install woody onto a G4 Cube using Ethan's current preferred method (drop the relevant files on the root of the relevant volume, craft a yaboot.conf, reboot into OF, etc) using the current version

Re: woody boot-floppies

2001-11-02 Thread Bastien Nocera
Ethan Benson wrote: On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 03:32:25PM -0800, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: Hi! I'm trying to install woody onto a G4 Cube using Ethan's current preferred method (drop the relevant files on the root of the relevant volume, craft a yaboot.conf, reboot into OF, etc) using

Re: woody boot-floppies

2001-11-02 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 03:47:23PM -0800, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 03:32:25PM -0800, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: Hi! I'm trying to install woody onto a G4 Cube using Ethan's current preferred method... OK, sorry to waste everyone's time, I had

Re: woody boot-floppies

2001-11-02 Thread ozymandias G desiderata
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 07:51:46PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 03:47:23PM -0800, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 03:32:25PM -0800, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: Hi! I'm trying to install woody onto a G4 Cube using Ethan's current

Re: woody boot-floppies

2001-11-02 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 07:05:04PM -0800, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: I downloaded a prebuilt 2.4.12-benh0 kernel from http://www.ppckernel.org/benh-devel/ and added it to my tftp-bootable yaboot configuration. The kernel loaded and booted just fine, only hanging when it hit the place

Re: woody boot-floppies

2001-11-02 Thread Joseph Fannin
On Friday 02 November 2001 22:05, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: snip I downloaded a prebuilt 2.4.12-benh0 kernel from http://www.ppckernel.org/benh-devel/ and added it to my tftp-bootable yaboot configuration. The kernel loaded and booted just fine, only hanging when it hit the place where it

Re: util-linux-locales and powerpc-utils installation conflict under woody

2001-11-01 Thread Ethan Benson
apt-get install util-linux/unstable powerpc-utils or just put util-linux on hold for a day or two, the fixed one is uploaded urgency=high so it should go in woody by friday. removing powerpc-utils is bad, that will break ybin. On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 07:47:25PM -0800, Laurent de Segur wrote

Lombard: Woody: lost virtual terminals

2001-10-31 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I'd be grateful to know how to restore the ability to move between virtual terminals on woody. On potato I pushed Apple-fn-(F1|F2|Fn) to move between terminals on login (not X). I seem to have lost this ability. Thanks for help Rory

Re: upgrade lombard potato to woody

2001-10-31 Thread Andrew Sharp
Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 05:06:53PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: You got confused by a unique event. sid will be (and has been if I'm not mistaken) unstable forever now. The difference between testing and woody (or later releases) will be when it becomes stable

Re: Lombard: Woody: lost virtual terminals

2001-10-31 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 13:54, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: I'd be grateful to know how to restore the ability to move between virtual terminals on woody. On potato I pushed Apple-fn-(F1|F2|Fn) to move between terminals on login (not X). I seem to have lost this ability. Use alt/option instead

Re: Lombard: Woody: lost virtual terminals

2001-10-31 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 03:15:52PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 13:54, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: I'd be grateful to know how to restore the ability to move between virtual terminals on woody. On potato I pushed Apple-fn-(F1|F2|Fn) to move between terminals on login

util-linux-locales and powerpc-utils installation conflict under woody

2001-10-31 Thread Laurent de Segur
Running an apt-get dist-upgrade as for tonight on woody reports the following error: .../... Preparing to replace util-linux 2.11h-1 (using .../util-linux_2.11l-3_powerpc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement util-linux ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.11l-3_powerpc.deb

Re: upgrade lombard potato to woody

2001-10-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
the actual names rather than the aliases? I used unstable for a while, then, with no warning, unstable was bumbed from woody to a very broken sid, and that machine got hosed. It took me a long time to figure out what happened. Since the aliases can be bumped without warning to the next

Re: upgrade lombard potato to woody

2001-10-30 Thread Andrew Sharp
Michel Dänzer wrote: On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 10:12, Andrew Sharp wrote: Am I the only one that favors using the actual names rather than the aliases? I used unstable for a while, then, with no warning, unstable was bumbed from woody to a very broken sid, and that machine got hosed

Re: Lombard: Woody: dpkg install failure

2001-10-26 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:38:57PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: On 16/10/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ethan Benson) wrote: debootstrap became broken when a new ppp package entered woody recently. (it added a dependency on libpcap0 which

Testing/woody boot/root disk problem: MACE is broken.

2001-10-21 Thread Chris Bellers
This is my first post to debian-ppc, so please bear with me. When I boot the woody boot/root disks, everything looks like it inits okay, but when I get into the installer, it rapidly becomes apparent that something is badly broken. Here are the symptoms: #1: MACE Ethernet card cannot

[cbellers@earthlink.net: Testing/woody boot/root disk problem: MACE is broken.]

2001-10-21 Thread Ethan Benson
-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Testing/woody boot/root disk problem: MACE is broken. Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 14:00:29 -0500 X-From_: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Oct 21 11:55:44 2001 X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.52f) Personal Reply-To: Chris Bellers [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Precedence: list

Lombard: Woody: dpkg install failure

2001-10-16 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Thanks to everyone, Ethan especially, in getting me to the install phase! I'm trying to install woody on a Lombard powermac laptop. I'm installing woody because woody correctly tries to install yaboot, whereas potato does not. I'm booting from hd, then doing a kernel install over NFS (laziness

Re: Lombard: Woody: dpkg install failure

2001-10-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:01:36PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: Thanks to everyone, Ethan especially, in getting me to the install phase! I'm trying to install woody on a Lombard powermac laptop. I'm installing woody because woody correctly tries to install yaboot, whereas potato does

Re: Lombard: Woody: dpkg install failure

2001-10-16 Thread Ethan Benson
try replacing your root.bin with: http://master.penguinppc.org/~eb/root.bin On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:01:36PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: Thanks to everyone, Ethan especially, in getting me to the install phase! I'm trying to install woody on a Lombard powermac laptop. I'm installing

Re: Lombard: Woody: dpkg install failure

2001-10-16 Thread Adam Di Carlo
This is a known problem in that base dependancies changed. It is already fixed in debootstrap, and the next boot-floppies will also fix this. To workaround, add libpcap0 to the base line in the woody script. -- ...Adam Di Carlo..[EMAIL PROTECTED]...URL:http://www.onshored.com/

Re: Troubles with Potato/Woody on iBook 2001

2001-10-10 Thread Woo-il Song
Arrigo Benedetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Laurent de Segur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, ... Did you get the 2.4 from http://penguinppc.org/~benh/ ? Please note that this link is temporarily down at the moment. http://master.penguinppc.org/~benh/ I'm using vmlinux-2.4.10-ben0, it

Re: woody ppc installer

2001-10-09 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Hi Ethan Sorry to bother you about this. I'm planning to install woody on a bronze-keyboard G3 powerbook - a Lombard, I think it is called; no firewire. PowerPC G3 333Mhz. I'm about to upgrade MacOS to 9.1/9.2. Should I be using yaboot or BootX? The extract from the yaboot FAQ seems to suggest

Re: woody ppc installer

2001-10-09 Thread Michael Schmitz
Sorry to bother you about this. I'm planning to install woody on a bronze-keyboard G3 powerbook - a Lombard, I think it is called; no firewire. PowerPC G3 333Mhz. I'm about to upgrade MacOS to 9.1/9.2. Should I be using yaboot or BootX? The extract from the yaboot FAQ seems yaboot. XFree86

Re: woody ppc installer

2001-10-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 04:20:15PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: Hi Ethan Sorry to bother you about this. I'm planning to install woody on a bronze-keyboard G3 powerbook - a Lombard, I think it is called; no firewire. PowerPC G3 333Mhz. I'm about to upgrade MacOS to 9.1/9.2. Should I

Re: woody ppc installer

2001-10-09 Thread Josh Huber
Rory Campbell-Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Should I be using yaboot or BootX? The extract from the yaboot FAQ seems to suggest that yaboot is for G4s, iMacDVs, or Pismo laptops. You definatley want to use yaboot on Lombards. The lombard (afaiui), isn't quite a Newworld machine, but yaboot

woody ppc installer

2001-10-08 Thread Jack Howarth
repartitioning with Apple's software so that I have these Apple driver partitions along with the HFS will shut up MacOS X 10.1. What is the current state of the Woody ppc installer? Is it usable? In the past I have installed Potato and did a dist-upgrade to woody or sid. Thanks in advance for any info

Re: woody ppc installer

2001-10-08 Thread Ethan Benson
and see if there is anything you can simply comment out/rm -rf to eliminate such stupidity. What is the current state of the Woody ppc installer? Is it usable? In the past I have installed Potato and did a dist-upgrade to woody or sid. Thanks in advance for any info. 3.0.14 works well

Re: woody ppc installer

2001-10-08 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 08 2001, Jack Howarth wrote: What is the current state of the Woody ppc installer? Is it usable? In the past I have installed Potato and did a dist-upgrade to woody or sid. Thanks in advance for any info. Well, I think that it is. I have used the woody PPC bootdisks

Re: cups and libssl0.9.6 dependency problem in woody

2001-10-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 00:15, Georg Koss wrote: libcupsys2 depends on libssl0.9.6 I'm not able to find libssl0.9.6 (even in sid, where libssl09, belonging to SSH, with a version-number 9.4-something is available) apt-cache search libssl0.9.6 gives no result in woody nor sid. You

Re: cups and libssl0.9.6 dependency problem in woody

2001-10-06 Thread Georg Koss
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:37:14PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 00:15, Georg Koss wrote: You are apparently missing non-US lines in sources.list . What a fool am I, that's it thanks Michel -- M.f.G. Georg Koss mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cups and libssl0.9.6 dependency problem in woody

2001-10-05 Thread Georg Koss
Hi all! I have (It seems to be - probably) a problem with cups in woody. %-( I tried to do an upgrade of cups from the potato version (works without any problems) to woody's cups. I run all the time in the same message: libcupsys2 depends on libssl0.9.6 I'm not able to find libssl0.9.6 (even

Re: Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X

2001-09-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 06:12:26PM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: The PowerMac that I have here has a video card named IMS TT (that's what the kernel framebuffer driver tells at dmesg), with 4MB of VRAM. Section Device Identifier Generic Video Card Driver

Re: Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X

2001-09-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2001-09-29 at 23:12, =?us-ascii?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito wrote: In fact, I'm lying here: when I tried using the fbdev with 640x480 with 15 or 16 bit colors, X started, but with weird colors, like if I had taken a negative of the Debian default desktop with Window

Re: Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X

2001-09-30 Thread Thomas Powell
I am using a 4mb imstt128 on a dual processor s900 (same motherboard as 9500). I can get up to 1600x1200 with the fbdev or 1280x1024 with the imstt driver - both at 16 bit color depth. The relevant section of my XF86Config-4 is: Section Device Identifier imstt128mb BusID

Re: Packages kept back on woody

2001-09-30 Thread Laurent de Segur
] Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Packages kept back on woody Laurent de Segur wrote: I was doing my usual weekend apt-get update/apt-get upgrade this morning on testing and the upgrade stated that 3 packages (autoconf, lib-xt-java, and mailtools) have been kept back

Re: Packages kept back on woody

2001-09-30 Thread Matt Brubeck
On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Laurent de Segur wrote: That was my point which I hadn't make clear in the previous message: Doing an apt-get install of the three individual packages goes without any problems. Only when I did the apt-get upgrade, these packages would hold back. You want to 'apt-get

Update on the problems with X (was: Re: Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X)

2001-09-30 Thread Rogério Brito
don't know if the problem with the 2.4 kernels is that I am using the woody gcc (i.e., too recent to compile a kernel?), if I am doing something wrong or if the ADB driver in BenH's tree is unmaintained (it wasn't compiling and I had to change a : after the new licence

Re: Update on the problems with X (was: Re: Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X)

2001-09-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
Debian, I'll struggle a little bit more here. You could try using Xpmac for a start, but it will lack all of the interesting features of XFree86. I don't know if the problem with the 2.4 kernels is that I am using the woody gcc (i.e., too recent to compile a kernel

woody for ppc cd-image

2001-09-29 Thread Matthias Güter
does anybody know where i could find cd-images of woody (or sid) for ppc? on ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/ i only find the image for the i386-architecture

Re: woody for ppc cd-image

2001-09-29 Thread Nico Kist
hey There are no official woody or sid cd images right now, this is because they are not yet frozen. Why don't you just install potato and then dist upgrade to woody? Nico

Packages kept back on woody

2001-09-29 Thread Laurent de Segur
Hi, I was doing my usual weekend apt-get update/apt-get upgrade this morning on testing and the upgrade stated that 3 packages (autoconf, lib-xt-java, and mailtools) have been kept back. As I haven't done absolutely nothing to these packages or their respective installed files, I wonder why this

Re: Packages kept back on woody

2001-09-29 Thread Michel Dänzer
Laurent de Segur wrote: I was doing my usual weekend apt-get update/apt-get upgrade this morning on testing and the upgrade stated that 3 packages (autoconf, lib-xt-java, and mailtools) have been kept back. As I haven't done absolutely nothing to these packages or their respective

Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X

2001-09-29 Thread Rogério Brito
x86 user, but I am a complete newbie in the PowerPC arena. Despite that fact, I was able to sucessfully install woody with the 3.0.14 boot-floppies (grabbed from Adam's page) and everything is working alright, with the exception of getting into X, which, I

Re: Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X

2001-09-29 Thread Philipp Kaeser
hej, And this brings me to another question: since this machine has PCI slots, is it able to use any PCI card that I would use on a regular PC? What requisites should a PCI card fulfill to be usable with this machine? normal (PC x86) PCI gfx cards use to have some

Woody ppc

2001-09-25 Thread marcik
Hello Can you tell me from where can I download a iso image of woody ppc? By -- tsb tsb*Marcin marcik Kwiatkowski* [EMAIL PROTECTED] tsbA1200T PPC603e(200) LC040(35) 64MB HDD 16+1GB tsb -- Wygraj 2 dni extra dostepu do Big Brother nie daj sie innym wyprzedzic [ http://bigbrother.onet.pl

Re: Woody ppc

2001-09-25 Thread Derrik Pates
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Marcin marcik Kwiatkowski wrote: Can you tell me from where can I download a iso image of woody ppc? Well, since Woody hasn't been released yet, there are no CD images of it as yet, to my knowledge, and there won't be until it's officially released. Derrik Pates

Re: Woody ppc

2001-09-25 Thread Michael Schmitz
Can you tell me from where can I download a iso image of woody ppc? AFAIK it's not been released yet, so there are no official images. For potato, some people used to master test images in the final stage of freeze (but we haven't even gotten to that yet). Look at http://www.debian.org/distrib

Re: Woody ppc

2001-09-25 Thread Nico Kist
hey, have you thought about just installing potato and dist upgrading once you got on the net??? It works great for me ;) Nico Kist (niksie)

Could woody have different kernel versions

2001-09-07 Thread Roland Wegmann
Hi all, I upgraded from potato to woody (testing) because I thought woody has a kernel 2.4.x. But then I got the following error message when I used the command startx: ... Operating system: Linux 2.2.18pre21 pcc (ELF) ... Do I have to install a kernel version 2.4.x manually or has

Re: Could woody have different kernel versions

2001-09-07 Thread Matt Brubeck
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Roland Wegmann wrote: I upgraded from potato to woody (testing) because I thought woody has a kernel 2.4.x. ... Do I have to install a kernel version 2.4.x manually or has the message above nothing to do with the effective woody kernel? You have to install one

Re: Could woody have different kernel versions

2001-09-07 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2001-09-07 at 19:07, Roland Wegmann wrote: I upgraded from potato to woody (testing) because I thought woody has a kernel 2.4.x. But then I got the following error message when I used the command startx: ... Operating system: Linux 2.2.18pre21 pcc (ELF) ... Do I have to install

Re: Difficulty installing woody OR potato on Beige G3

2001-09-05 Thread Chris Tillman
Sorry to follow up my own post, but you know how it is... On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:37:03PM -0700, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: In any case, I was able to get the base distribution installed via the potato boot-floppies, leaving only the problem with the potato ofpath not liking the

Woody Boot Disks (was downgrade sid to woody?)

2001-09-05 Thread Kevin van Haaren
At 8:08 AM -0500 9/3/01, Kevin van Haaren wrote: I messed up my machine a couple of times running unstable (huh, wonder why they call it that 8-) anyway I want to downgrade to just woody. I dug through the apt-get and dselect man pages and didn't see a way to do this. Is it enough to remove

Re: Woody Boot Disks (was downgrade sid to woody?)

2001-09-05 Thread Andrew Sharp
Kevin van Haaren wrote: At 8:08 AM -0500 9/3/01, Kevin van Haaren wrote: I messed up my machine a couple of times running unstable (huh, wonder why they call it that 8-) anyway I want to downgrade to just woody. I dug through the apt-get and dselect man pages and didn't see a way to do

Re: Woody Boot Disks (was downgrade sid to woody?)

2001-09-05 Thread Ethan Benson
probably because the current woody bootfloppies are broken. root.bin is trunicated. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpF5hdBgQwBK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Difficulty installing woody OR potato on Beige G3

2001-09-04 Thread ozymandias G desiderata
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 07:47:25PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: i reccommend netboot. keeping macos around is impossible without keeping all that useless, harmful cruft as well. http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc/netboot.html Well, uh, that's great, Ethan, but this is a _beige_ (OldWorld)

Re: Difficulty installing woody OR potato on Beige G3

2001-09-04 Thread ozymandias G desiderata
on this part, and in the absence of functional woody boot-floppies I have to keep trying to kludge my way to victory. -- . . . the self-reflecting image of a narcotized mind . . . ozymandias G desiderata [EMAIL PROTECTED] desperate, deathless (415)558-9064http://www.aoaioxxysz.com

Re: Troubles with Potato/Woody on iBook 2001

2001-09-04 Thread Colin Walters
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - I built the kernel the debian way (make-kpkg yadi yada...) That dosen't work for me. What problems did you run into?

Re: Difficulty installing woody OR potato on Beige G3

2001-09-04 Thread Andrew Sharp
? Once again, I apologize for imposing on everyone like this, but the install documentation is really unclear on this part, and in the absence of functional woody boot-floppies I have to keep trying to kludge my way to victory. Sounds like something I saw on the History Channel

Re: Troubles with Potato/Woody on iBook 2001

2001-09-04 Thread Bastien Nocera
Laurent de Segur wrote: on 9/2/01 11:34 PM, Arrigo Benedetti at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rebooting with the original 2.2.18 works fine. On the iBook 2001, I have to set video=ofonly to get video at boot time. Is this related? It seems that the OS is still loading but I can't see it. Yes, I

Re: Troubles with Potato/Woody on iBook 2001

2001-09-04 Thread thorsten_nicklaus
Colin Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What problems did you run into? I don't now. The compile fail. Now, I try it with 2.4.8 and no problem. Anything Okay! bye Thorsten

Re: Troubles with Potato/Woody on iBook 2001

2001-09-04 Thread Laurent de Segur
on 9/4/01 1:28 AM, Bastien Nocera at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When the iBook restarts, I still get the Do-QUIESCE message. Linux boots (supposedly as I hear the disk) but the OF screen is blocking the view kinda. Switching to linux-2.2.18 which I got from somewhere else works. It's just

Re: Troubles with Potato/Woody on iBook 2001

2001-09-03 Thread Arrigo Benedetti
the video=ofonly argument to the kernel. You can put append video=ofonly in yaboot.conf as you would do with lilo.conf on x86 linux. Next, I updated to the testing release (woody) on the linux partition and leaving 2.2.18 in the bootstrap partition to start with yaboot, the keyboard is mapped

downgrade sid to woody?

2001-09-03 Thread Kevin van Haaren
I messed up my machine a couple of times running unstable (huh, wonder why they call it that 8-) anyway I want to downgrade to just woody. I dug through the apt-get and dselect man pages and didn't see a way to do this. Is it enough to remove the unstable references in sources.list and run

Re: downgrade sid to woody?

2001-09-03 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
On Mon, 2001-09-03 at 16:08, Kevin van Haaren wrote: I messed up my machine a couple of times running unstable (huh, wonder why they call it that 8-) anyway I want to downgrade to just woody. I dug through the apt-get and dselect man pages and didn't see a way to do this. Is it enough

Re: downgrade sid to woody?

2001-09-03 Thread Georg Koss
the newest versions it can get, as I experienced lots of times in the past jumping between woody and potato and, more seldom, sid and woody. I'd a similar problem in the past and found no practicable solution :-(. The only thing I found was the command dpkg -i --force-downgrade package

Re: downgrade sid to woody?

2001-09-03 Thread Colin Walters
Kevin van Haaren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I messed up my machine a couple of times running unstable (huh, wonder why they call it that 8-) anyway I want to downgrade to just woody. I dug through the apt-get and dselect man pages and didn't see a way to do this. Is it enough to remove

Re: Troubles with Potato/Woody on iBook 2001

2001-09-03 Thread Laurent de Segur
on 9/2/01 11:34 PM, Arrigo Benedetti at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rebooting with the original 2.2.18 works fine. On the iBook 2001, I have to set video=ofonly to get video at boot time. Is this related? It seems that the OS is still loading but I can't see it. Yes, I got the Do-QUIESCE

Re: Troubles with Potato/Woody on iBook 2001

2001-09-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 05:41:56PM -0700, Laurent de Segur wrote: The problem is still here. Reading debian docs for half a day didn't solve anything :-( - I learned a lot more about various policies though... Here is what I do: - I built the kernel the debian way (make-kpkg yadi yada...)

Difficulty installing woody OR potato on Beige G3

2001-09-03 Thread ozymandias G desiderata
boot floppies at this late date. 2) HD install: a) Download BootX, the kernel, and the compressed ramdisk image. b) Use BootX to load up the kernel (either at next reboot or after MacOS loading finishes, doesn't affect the outcome). c) Read the, uh, skeletal release notes for woody. d

Re: Difficulty installing woody OR potato on Beige G3

2001-09-03 Thread Ethan Benson
thier install by ignoring the fing manual. woody b-f make it significantly more difficult to screw up and then play dumb. e) Enter mac-fdisk, and here's where the fun begins. If I do an 'i' to reinitialize the partition table and then immediately do a 'w' to write the new partition table

Re: Difficulty installing woody OR potato on Beige G3

2001-09-03 Thread ozymandias G desiderata
any partitions, though, any attempts to write the changed partition table thereafter cause an exception that reads Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer at virtual address. At this point both woody and potato chunder. just reboot, the partititon table will be fine. bug benh

Re: Difficulty installing woody OR potato on Beige G3

2001-09-03 Thread Ethan Benson
the new partition table, everything's cool. As soon as I try to create any partitions, though, any attempts to write the changed partition table thereafter cause an exception that reads Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer at virtual address. At this point both woody

woody installation confusion

2001-09-02 Thread Andreas Wüst
Hi After having read a lot of previous posts on this list and some amount of documentation, I have to admit that I am quite confused about the installation of woody on my TiBook. In Re: tiBook(Titanium), Debian install problems (mac-fdisk, 30GB) I've read that the root disk in woody is being

Re: woody installation confusion

2001-09-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 02:06:02PM +0200, Andreas Wüst wrote: Hi After having read a lot of previous posts on this list and some amount of documentation, I have to admit that I am quite confused about the installation of woody on my TiBook. In Re: tiBook(Titanium), Debian install problems

Re: woody installation confusion

2001-09-02 Thread Andreas Wüst
Hi Thank you very much for fast answer Ethan!! After having read a lot of previous posts on this list and some amount of documentation, I have to admit that I am quite confused about the installation of woody on my TiBook. In Re: tiBook(Titanium), Debian install problems (mac-fdisk, 30GB

Re: woody installation confusion

2001-09-02 Thread Julien BLACHE
Andreas Wüst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, After reading this one can say that it is, at the moment, impossible to install woody on a ppc machine? I did it on a Tibook 2 days ago, and my Debian runs just fine at the moment (I made a bootable CD 1 of Woody using my local mirror -- boot-floppies

Re: woody installation confusion

2001-09-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
Julien BLACHE wrote: Andreas Wüst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After reading this one can say that it is, at the moment, impossible to install woody on a ppc machine? I did it on a Tibook 2 days ago, and my Debian runs just fine at the moment (I made a bootable CD 1 of Woody using my local

Re: woody installation confusion

2001-09-02 Thread Andreas Wüst
Hi Thank you all for answering! After reading this one can say that it is, at the moment, impossible to install woody on a ppc machine? I did it on a Tibook 2 days ago, and my Debian runs just fine at the moment (I made a bootable CD 1 of Woody using my local mirror I don't own a cd

Re: woody installation confusion

2001-09-02 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 05:00:28PM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: Andreas Wüst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, After reading this one can say that it is, at the moment, impossible to install woody on a ppc machine? I did it on a Tibook 2 days ago, and my Debian runs just fine at the moment

Troubles with Potato/Woody on iBook 2001

2001-09-02 Thread Laurent de Segur
time. Is this related? It seems that the OS is still loading but I can't see it. Next, I updated to the testing release (woody) on the linux partition and leaving 2.2.18 in the bootstrap partition to start with yaboot, the keyboard is mapped totally wrong just after loading the USB drivers from

Re: woody, PB3400

2001-09-01 Thread mike
hiya, i've found my problem to be the chips driver, switching to fbdev (using 15 bit colour instead of 16) has fixed it. thanks for everyone who replied, aside from the odd crash here and there (particularly with apt-get) everything works well! cheers mike On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Michael Schmitz

Re: woody, PB3400

2001-08-31 Thread Michael Schmitz
I have no idea what to put for HorizSync and VertRefresh, I've tried some VertRefresh 35-75 is needed for my Lombard. Anything higher than 35 and I get an error (might even be the same error as you see). It's been a while since I installed XFree 4.1 so your mileage may vary. Michael

Re: no eye candy after woody

2001-08-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
sisi wrote: i have a powerpc 7300/200 So you probably have to use the fbdev driver. and that is what it says in my config file :-) It was basically a 3.3.x config file modified for 4.x . It's generally a better idea to start from scratch for 4.x because a lot of cruft is no longer

woody, PB3400

2001-08-30 Thread mike
g'day, i've got woody running on my pb3400, and so far the only thing that's given me any serious amount of hassle is XFree 4.0.3. I would be very grateful for a copy of another pb3400 user's working XF86Config-4 file, or any advice on the screen modes i need to use. X dies after finding

Re: woody, PB3400

2001-08-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
mike wrote: i've got woody running on my pb3400, and so far the only thing that's given me any serious amount of hassle is XFree 4.0.3. I would be very grateful for a copy of another pb3400 user's working XF86Config-4 file, or any advice on the screen modes i need to use. X dies after

Re: woody, PB3400

2001-08-30 Thread mike
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: You should no longer need to define modelines at all. When I remove them, all default modes between 640x350 and 800x600 are deleted (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan), 1024x768 and up are killed due to insufficient memory for mode (not

Re: woody, PB3400

2001-08-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
mike wrote: I can send my config file if that would help, aside from my addition of a DefaultDepth 16 line it's a vanilla configuration straight from XFree86 -configure. Please send me your XF86Config and /var/log/XFree86.0.log privately. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)\ Debian

Re: woody: [tftpd and bootp on ppc]

2001-08-29 Thread Michel Dänzer
Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: nobody answered because its a rtfm question. so rtfm. I think it's the charm and grace of the maintainers that really make the Debian experience so wonderful ;) Minor correction: Ethan isn't a Debian maintainer (I also thought so for the longest time :), but

woody: [tftpd and bootp on ppc]

2001-08-28 Thread Daniel Lamblin
hm. seems that there's no on on debian-testing anymore. perhaps I could ask about this here. read the forwarded message and let me add: perhaps if I installed stable's tftpd I'd be better off, but I don't know how to work with both stable and testing sources. Could anyone speak to having

Re: woody: [tftpd and bootp on ppc]

2001-08-28 Thread Matt Brubeck
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Daniel Lamblin wrote: perhaps if I installed stable's tftpd I'd be better off, but I don't know how to work with both stable and testing sources. Could anyone speak to having gotten the two to coexist? is there an apt-get install dtable:tftpd sort of command? Very

Re: woody: [tftpd and bootp on ppc]

2001-08-28 Thread Matt Brubeck
A few minutes ago, I wrote: See apt_proferences(5) for more ways to use this pinning feature. Should be apt_preferences, of course.

Re: woody: [tftpd and bootp on ppc]

2001-08-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 03:10:32PM -0400, Daniel Lamblin wrote: hm. seems that there's no on on debian-testing anymore. perhaps I could ask about this here. read the forwarded message and let me add: perhaps if I installed stable's tftpd I'd be better off, but I don't know how to work with

Re: woody: [tftpd and bootp on ppc]

2001-08-28 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
nobody answered because its a rtfm question. so rtfm. I think it's the charm and grace of the maintainers that really make the Debian experience so wonderful ;) -raf

Woody and Potato

2001-08-26 Thread Individual . .
Hi all! A cople of people have mentioned woody and potato. I know they are different (in a chronological sense) versions of Debian, but what I don't know is where 2.2_rev3 falls. I have a feeling its older (potato?). I have 100MB to go on the Disk One download of version 2.2_rev3, and after

Re: Woody and Potato

2001-08-26 Thread Matt Brubeck
Individual . . wrote: A cople of people have mentioned woody and potato. I know they are different (in a chronological sense) versions of Debian, but what I don't know is where 2.2_rev3 falls. I have a feeling its older (potato?). That's right. Potato is the latest stable release, version

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