| 00:20.03 | Sweetandy | Pretty dead. |
| 00:21.19 | Sweetandy | Kind of always is, I'm afraid. |
| 00:25.47 | Sweetandy | OMGOMGOMG I am so in love with my iBook G4!! I have Debian Lenny on it and it works perfectly minus one, the wireless card is "supported" but doesn't work. I'm looking into ndiswrapper |
| 00:26.29 | mike_xcr | I'm so in love in my PowerBook 17" G4 ;] |
| 00:26.34 | mike_xcr | with Debian ofc ;) |
| 00:26.42 | Sweetandy | ofc? |
| 00:26.49 | mike_xcr | of course |
| 00:26.51 | Sweetandy | aaah |
| 00:29.02 | Sweetandy | Must be a really nice model to use |
| 00:29.14 | Sweetandy | I'm only using this model because I could get it for 212.50. |
| 00:29.27 | Sweetandy | Does the wifi work? |
| 01:43.48 | Yaroze | Sweetandy: could you try and see if you can compile this driver? http://www.soundtracker.org/raw/cwfloppy/cwfloppy-0.5.3.tar.gz |
| 01:45.11 | Sweetandy | I'll try |
| 01:49.02 | Sweetandy | error: cw_firmware causes a section type conflict |
| 01:55.08 | Yaroze | k i get same |
| 01:55.16 | Yaroze | works on my x86 machine tho |
| 01:59.32 | Sweetandy | I just ran it under x86 arch linux |
| 02:04.50 | Sweetandy | ppc is my Mr. Lappy. |
| 02:13.20 | Yaroze | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAM440 |
| 02:20.25 | simonrvn | i bet it's an endianness issue ;p |
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| 12:43.53 | vause | hello |
| 12:51.41 | vause | anyone got experience installing on a powerpc mac? |
| 13:14.40 | Bor_Ed | I'd guess every person on this channel.. some have experiences on installing on rs/6000 and embedded ppc gear too |
| 13:15.10 | vause | okay.. perhaps someone can help me then.. I'm stuck at the first hurdle.. |
| 13:15.25 | vause | I try to boot from cd holding down 'c' key at startup.. but it boots to hdd |
| 13:15.39 | Bor_Ed | what model the mac is? |
| 13:15.40 | vause | so I go into open firmware and boot cdrom from there |
| 13:15.55 | vause | but I get a quick error which flashes by too quick to read |
| 13:16.04 | vause | it's a powerbook g4 |
| 13:16.18 | vause | then I get the grey "no entry" icon |
| 13:16.21 | Bor_Ed | then you have either ppc64 image or corrupt download |
| 13:16.46 | vause | hmm.. I have checked the md5 |
| 13:16.48 | vause | of the download |
| 13:16.54 | vause | and the burned cd |
| 13:16.58 | vause | and they check out okay.. |
| 13:17.01 | Bor_Ed | and burned it as 'burn iso to cd'? |
| 13:17.21 | Bor_Ed | hmm, what iso you're trying to use? |
| 13:17.21 | vause | yeah.. tried using diskutility and drutil burn iso under osx |
| 13:18.35 | vause | it's called debian-40r6-powerpc-CD-1.iso |
| 13:18.46 | vause | have also tried opensuse net install cd |
| 13:18.49 | vause | with same result |
| 13:19.15 | Bor_Ed | hmm, the iso is valid for install... though you might want to check out testing netinst iso too, has more recent kernel |
| 13:19.28 | vause | do I need to burn it in some weird way for the power pc platform? I'd have though a straight iso burn would work... |
| 13:19.44 | Bor_Ed | no special care needs to be done |
| 13:19.49 | vause | hmm.. will try the net inst iso... |
| 13:20.27 | vause | thats strange.. I have tried slackintosh 12.1, opensuse11.1 as well.. with the same result |
| 13:20.48 | vause | thing is I'm not getting any boot messages |
| 13:20.52 | Bor_Ed | yup, that's strange indeed... is your cd drive ok? |
| 13:21.04 | vause | just what appears to be a kernel trap error.. then the no netry icon |
| 13:21.32 | vause | hmm.. no I remember I did replace the drive with a non apple drive a few years back |
| 13:21.54 | vause | I tried to install leopard and found out my dvd had stopped reading dvds |
| 13:22.09 | vause | so bought a local one.. has worked okay .. enough to boot leopard.. |
| 13:22.13 | Bor_Ed | you could try to netboot the install too via wired lan |
| 13:22.46 | vause | okay.. got a poor connection here.. but if it gets me started.. will read up and give it a go.. |
| 13:22.48 | vause | thanks |
| 13:23.10 | Bor_Ed | no prob |
| 13:30.44 | vause | it looks like I'll have to setup my own dhcp/tftpd server... |
| 13:30.50 | vause | does that sound right? |
| 13:31.07 | vause | I guess it's not possible to point the openfirmware at a debian net install server? |
| 13:34.20 | Bor_Ed | it's not possible to do it otherwise than on lan side |
| 13:35.13 | vause | ah.. okay.. |
| 13:37.44 | vause | I've tried booting from a usb key.. but get the same result.. have checked apple support discussions which seem to suggest that firmware cant find a bootable partition.. but iso image should have taken care of that. |
| 13:38.34 | vause | I'm using a cd-rw that shouldn't make any difference should it? (never used one before) |
| 13:40.48 | Bor_Ed | naa |
| 13:41.01 | Bor_Ed | cd-rw is just a bit slower to find partition on the disk than cd-r |
| 13:55.54 | vause | well thanks for your help.. hope you have a good new year |
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| 23:30.33 | charzero | When partitioning for linux only on a G4 powermac, should I have a Partition Map partition? |
| 23:32.01 | charzero | Manual partitioning through the installer and mac-fdisk seem to be at odd.s |
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