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| 16:11.47 | rdm0 | The door opened, and she sauntered into the room, taking all my breath as she walked. |
| 16:11.59 | rdm0 | "Hi, Slick! I hear you're the local computer expert in these here parts." She saddled up on the corner of the desk, her bright green eyes peering through thick lashes in my direction. "I'd be ... REALLY grateful if you could help me out." |
| 16:12.09 | rdm0 | "Uh, sure! What seems to be the problem?" I tried playing it cool, but my throat jammed up and my palms were sweaty. |
| 16:12.18 | rdm0 | "Well, I want to install debian on my two G4 Apple machines so they'll dual-boot with Mac OS X, but I'm worried that I might have ... not done my prep work correctly." She licked her lips. "When I installed 10.4.11 on each of them, I left an extra 10GB partition at the end, thinking I'd use that for Linux. These machines can't easily be reinstalled. |
| 16:12.31 | rdm0 | But I've looked about on the internet, and some articles seem to indicate that you didn't already leave room for a yaboot partition at the front of your drive, you're in deep ... trouble. |
| 16:12.37 | Bor_Ed | simonrvn? |
| 16:12.42 | rdm0 | But some articles seem to indicate you're fine, but after the debian install you'll have to reassign partition numbers so that the yaboot partition is the first partition, and manually edit the /etc/fstabs in the existing Mac OS X partitions in order for Mac OS X to ever work again. |
| 16:12.53 | rdm0 | And yet other articles indicate that everything will install and be just ... peachy. So what's a girl to do?" She pouted her thick red lips at me, and my stomach tied itself in knots. |
| 16:13.03 | rdm0 | "Oh, is that all?" I tried to remain calm, pretend to be as confident as I needed to be to keep her leaning over like that. |
| 16:13.16 | rdm0 | "Well ... no, actually, I also ran into a problem with one machine when I previously tried to install Ubuntu. Apparently, the fact that machine has a SCSI drive as the first drive and a SATA drive (with the Linux partition) as the second meant that I ran into a known problem with yaboot not being able to write correctly if the SCSI-ish device wasn't the first drive. |
| 16:13.24 | rdm0 | You wouldn't happen to know if that problem has been fixed in the latest version of debian testing, would you?" She cocked her head, and gave me such a 'won't you help me' look that I almost wilted. |
| 16:13.34 | rdm0 | "I'm busy, but maybe I'll have time to look up some answers in an hour or two. Think you can keep your pants on until then?" Gosh, playing it cool is so uncouth! |
| 16:13.44 | rdm0 | She seemed disappointed. "Well ... let me borrow your phone book. If you don't have an answer for me in an hour, maybe I'll call some of your competition and see if they know how to really please a lady." |
| 16:13.54 | rdm0 | She elegantly pulled a card out of her cleavage with two dainty fingers and flipped it onto the desk, scooped up my telephone book with her other hand and gave me a look at heaven as I watched her rear chassis sway back and forth out the door. |
| 16:13.58 | rdm0 | ... |
| 16:14.05 | rdm0 | Um, guys! A little help? |
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| 16:36.15 | Crazz | hello |
| 16:37.06 | rdm0 | Hello, Crazz! :-) |
| 16:37.32 | Crazz | ok i made a boot cd for debian 4 etch... and when i typed install it locked on the Open Firmware window with a default catch error do you think it might be that i would need a specific Openfirmware update? |
| 16:38.14 | rdm0 | I'm a debian newbie having already asked a question here myself -- I'm afraid I don't know the answer. ^^;; |
| 16:39.25 | rdm0 | Perhaps someone else ... ? |
| 16:39.25 | Crazz | hmmm |
| 16:39.56 | rdm0 | It's been very ... slow here. You might need to wait a while for a response. |
| 16:40.23 | rdm0 | is worried 'patience' here is measured in 'days', not in 'hours' |
| 16:40.30 | Crazz | lo |
| 16:40.31 | Crazz | lol |
| 16:42.47 | Crazz | its funny i have been trying to get help on this particular issue for 3 weeks or more now cause i am trying to put linux on this mac of mine and still can't seem to get a answer |
| 16:43.00 | rdm0 | :-/ |
| 16:43.37 | Crazz | its like you mention openfirmware and everyone closeshardware lmao |
| 16:43.59 | rdm0 | I just put my question (in humorous form, hoping that might cause at least some response) in both this and the other channel, and haven't heard anything for over half an hour. |
| 16:44.07 | rdm0 | So it's not just your question, I think. |
| 16:44.36 | Crazz | i don't think its just my question but kinda funny been 3 weeks and no idea's he he |
| 16:45.31 | rdm0 | Well, it is a bit specialized. |
| 16:45.35 | rdm0 | thinks |
| 16:45.56 | rdm0 | I'd probably approach Wil Shipley and ask him who he thought would be a good person to ask. |
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| 16:53.18 | rdm0 | Hello, Krazz! :-) |
| 16:53.21 | Krazz | lol power outage and my nick is still in chan |
| 16:54.23 | rdm0 | Krazz: You wouldn't happen to know much about OpenFirmware errors, would you? |
| 16:56.30 | Krazz | depends |
| 16:56.38 | Krazz | i know how to use it a bit lmao |
| 16:56.46 | rdm0 | ... |
| 16:57.15 | rdm0 | has reached the conclusion Krazz and Crazz are the same person, and feels foolish. |
| 16:57.20 | Krazz | lmao |
| 16:57.33 | Krazz | waiting for Crazz to get booted for ping timeout |
| 17:13.08 | simonrvn | Bor_Ed: ! |
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| 17:13.27 | Bor_Ed | thank you |
| 17:14.00 | Bor_Ed | not like this chan wouldn't need some activity but still... |
| 17:17.19 | Crazz | lol |
| 17:17.22 | Crazz | iMac Blueberry trayloader with PowerPC G3 333mhz proc 32mb ram 6mb vram and 6gb hdd when i boot from debian ppc etch cd and type install i get locked at openfirmware with a default catch warning do i need to have a specific firmware upgrade? |
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| 19:29.20 | WolvBite | hello all. can someone help me configure yaboot? |
| 19:30.24 | WolvBite | I have 2 sata drives and it is bombing. also have an lvm setup that contains root and swap. /dev/sda2 = new world boot partition |
| 19:30.38 | WolvBite | dev/sda3= /boot |
| 19:31.17 | WolvBite | will debian run if i put boot inside the lvm? |
| 20:13.02 | simonrvn | i wouldn't. / on lvm you need an initrd |
| 20:56.20 | WolvBite | how come yellow dog has no issue writting the yaboot conf but debian does |
| 21:54.02 | simonrvn | i don't know. debian's ppc support is kind of poo lately. |
| 21:57.00 | simonrvn | mind you, ydl is worse ;) |
| 21:57.09 | simonrvn | *has* used it |
| 21:57.43 | WolvBite | looks that way. but I figured it out through trial and error and a gazillion installs. have to use the ofboot and exact firmware location of the bootdrive. |
| 22:04.22 | simonrvn | oh yeh, tdl probably sorts it out for you, debian tends to be more hands-on approach |
| 22:04.26 | simonrvn | ydl* |
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