> On Jul 29, 2016, at 7:45 PM, limpia wrote:
>
> But really, you would have to just try it. I do not think you will get very
> good results with the newest version of Debian, current stable, Jessie,...
> Perhaps Squeeze, or Wheezy, but I have my doubts.
My Raspberry Pi 3's do pretty well with
Thanks!
-Spencer :)
*Be yourself, *
*nobody can tell you you're doing it wrong.*
*-Snoopy*
On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 8:45 PM, limpia wrote:
> On 2016-07-29 19:12, Spencer Gordon wrote:
>
>> The Thinkpad 860 is from around 1995. I would be ok with Windows NT,
>> but I'd like to run Debian. It has
On 2016-07-29 19:12, Spencer Gordon wrote:
The Thinkpad 860 is from around 1995. I would be ok with Windows NT,
but I'd like to run Debian. It has a PowerPC 603e CPU, and a GT20 GPU.
-Spencer :)
_Be yourself, _
_nobody can tell you you're doing it wrong._
_-Snoopy_
On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 5:11
The Thinkpad 860 is from around 1995. I would be ok with Windows NT, but
I'd like to run Debian. It has a PowerPC 603e CPU, and a GT20 GPU.
-Spencer :)
*Be yourself, *
*nobody can tell you you're doing it wrong.*
*-Snoopy*
On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 5:11 AM, Eero Volotinen
wrote:
> How about runn
How about running powerpc under kvm ;)
Eero
29.7.2016 3.54 ap. "Spencer Gordon" kirjoitti:
> Hello! I have been considering buying a used IBM Thinkpad 860 laptop for a
> while now, and I was wondering if anyone had tested the PowerPC version of
> Debian on this machine. I would hope to install
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 07:36:39PM -0500, Spencer Gordon wrote:
> Hello! I have been considering buying a used IBM Thinkpad 860 laptop for a
> while now, and I was wondering if anyone had tested the PowerPC version of
> Debian on this machine. I would hope to install Debian, because I don't
> reall
gave it another try this evening, and for no apparent reason, it booted up
to a much furthur place, still not an install, but past memory allocations.
It had a line that said cut here
followed by a slew of messages, some of which began with 'kernel bug' and a
memory dump. I attempted to t
I had similar issues with hanging on boot about a month ago with
powerpc and I believe that it ended up being a corrupted boot ram
image. Would drop into a limited shell when it tried to switch to
mounting the root file systems and visually "hang". Sounds somewhat
similar, but I cant tell fro
On Aug 15, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Rick Thomas
wrote:
On Aug 15, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote:
okay, I understand now; although, there is a slight problem with
doing that, I have no other linux machines handy with disk
dri
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.5 "Squeeze"- Official powerpc NETINST Binary - 1
20120512-20:49
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> On Aug 15, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote:
>
> okay, I understand now; although, there is a slight problem with doing
>> that, I have no other l
On Aug 15, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote:
okay, I understand now; although, there is a slight problem with
doing that, I have no other linux machines handy with disk drives.
Is there a way of doing that from the mac terminal?
If you just put the CD in the CD drive with MacOS-
okay, I understand now; although, there is a slight problem with doing
that, I have no other linux machines handy with disk drives. Is there a
way of doing that from the mac terminal?
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> On Aug 15, 2012, at 8:25 AM, Michael Aldridge wrote:
>
On Aug 15, 2012, at 8:25 AM, Michael Aldridge wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Rick Thomas
wrote:
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
From: Michael Aldridge
Date: August 14, 2012 6:05:29 PM PDT
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg
After de
The iso was downloaded from the debian.org mirror (as near as I can tell at
least), and it is the small cd image available by clicking on the power-pc
link below the heading of small cds. The iso was obtained and burned
yesterday.
I tried the key combinations you suggested, but none worked. I
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:06:09AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> First: try sending this to the "debian-powerpc" list. You may get
> more answers there...
>
> Second: I have a couple of G4 tower machines that work just fine,
> but unfortunately I don't have any powerbooks to try, s
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From: Michael Aldridge
Date: August 14, 2012 6:05:29 PM PDT
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg
After deciding that the official OS was becoming too slow for this
aging hardware, and App
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Hi,
On Monday 13 December 2004 05:06, sasha shkolnikov wrote:
> I am new to Debian. I have an old Apple Macintosh 5300 PowerBook
> (PowerPC chip). Does anyone know if I can run Debiac on it? ..and how.
> Really don't want to waste it.
A quick google
"Jeffrey" writes:
> I have an iMac running Debian stable. The only way I've discovered
> to turn off the monitor (not just blank the screen, but turn it off)
> is to have X running. Is there software to turn off the screen
> without running a display manager?
For the StarMax I use:
setterm -
* Francois Chenais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Because my 41 Prep Parition is to small for the 2.4.18 kernel, and for
> experience, I want to re-install my this machine.
Your PReP partition has about 2 MB free. This should be sufficient. My
current Kernel has about 1 MB.
> ncr53c8xx_abort: pid=0, ser
Because my 41 Prep Parition is to small for the 2.4.18 kernel, and for experience, I
want to re-install my this machine.
I have downloaded th 4 floppies from
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/prep/images-1.44/
but I have a problem while setting up the scsi devic
Thank you very much
François
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:00:37 +0100, Johannes Berth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| * Francois Chenais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| > On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 07:27:38 +0100, Johannes Berth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > Where can I find this zImage.prep ???
* Francois Chenais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 07:27:38 +0100, Johannes Berth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Where can I find this zImage.prep ???
It's just a working kernel, so you could use the one that comes with the
Debian CD or you could compile a new kernel.
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On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 07:27:38 +0100, Johannes Berth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| * Francois Chenais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| > I have installed a Powerpc debian on an AIX / Estrella (BULL)
| > machine. I can't find how to make the machine bottable from disk :-|
| > sda1 Boot
* Francois Chenais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I have installed a Powerpc debian on an AIX / Estrella (BULL)
> machine. I can't find how to make the machine bottable from disk :-|
> sda1 Boot Primary PPC PReP Boot 2.13
dd if=zImage.prep of=/dev/sda1 should work.
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On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Joyce, Matthew wrote:
>
> I have a couple of Mac PowerPC 7200/200 or similer, will these run Debian ?
> Are they comparable to say a P200 or more like a 486 ? Or what ?
>
Yes, perfectly. I have a 7200/166 running as a firewall, and it is more
stable and just as fast as
On 11/7/02 4:50 PM, "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have a couple of Mac PowerPC 7200/200 or similer, will these run Debian ?
> Are they comparable to say a P200 or more like a 486 ? Or what ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Matt
>
Matt,
Those are PCI-based, so installing Debian is at leas
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 11:57:40AM -0700, Mark Simos wrote:
>
> got debian 2.2 on a powermac 9600/200 with ADB mouse and keyboard.
>
> keyboard works great, mouse does not. can fool x into loading by pointing the
> mouse at /dev/adb, but of course the mouse doesn't work. I don't have a
> /dev/
Hi Mark!
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Mark Simos wrote:
>:
>: got debian 2.2 on a powermac 9600/200 with ADB mouse and keyboard.
>:
>: keyboard works great, mouse does not. can fool x into loading by pointing
>the mouse at /dev/adb, but of course the mouse doesn't work. I don't have a
>/dev/ad
At 21:34 28.02.01, Ken Sandell wrote:
How do I get Debian on a PowerPC?
www.debian.org
debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
note that you have to check the list archive about procedure, because most
oldworld Macs do have a broken OF and it's easier to install with BenH's
bootx, which is not deb
I think I've gotten X working properly on my PowerMac 4400/200
now; here's my XF86Config file for reference:# $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/XF86Conf.cpp,v 3.29.2.3 1999/06/02
07:50:27 hohndel Exp $
#
# Copyright (c) 1994 by The XFree86 Project, Inc.
#
# Permission is hereby granted, fre
Kent West wrote:
I've gotten a stop closer. I added the line:
option "noaccel"
to the Device section. Now I've got a usable screen. It has a very
tall virtual screen area, so I've still got some figuring to do, but maybe
this'll help you some also.
Tom wrote:
New install on a Macintosh Lombar
Tom wrote:
New install on a Macintosh Lombard and I can't seem
to get an XF86Config
file that will work (Xserver=XF68_FBDev).
Cna someone point me to a URL that has install instruction specific
debian
on Mac laptops?
And is there a specific debian-user-ppc mail list?
thanks
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tom
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