Re: Success Installing Debian on Power Mac G3 oldworld
Claudux wrote:
> Oups !!
>
> Sorry Brian for the private message !
> I forward to the list
>
> -------- Message original --------
> Sujet: Re: Success Installing Debian on Power Mac G3 oldworld.
> Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:53:34 +0100
> De: Claudux <claudux@wanadoo.fr>
> Répondre à: claudux@wanadoo.fr
> Pour: brian <cymraegish@yahoo.com>
> Références: <[🔎] 911419.97780.qm@web32415.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
>
>
>> Hello from Brittany (France),
>
>>> (can say in Breton ?? :))
> "Demat deoc'h" is the official way.
> "mad ar jeu ?" is my common way.( " the game is good ?")
>
> But in fact, "Demat" (good day) is new and exists in order to adapt this
> culture to the modern world...
> Usually, if you meet someone for the first time you talk about
> generalities ( weather, children...etc).
> The second time, you should keep on the conversation even several years
> later !
> But you know that as we seem to be "cousins".
> My grand father was fisherman, he used to go to Whales.
> As he didn't talk a word of french or english, he was using Breton in
> bars to ask for wine "gwin".
> Well, I think we are out of subject :-)
>>> you then are running now woody, or did you afterwards
>>> upgrade using your sarge cd ?
> I'm still running woody as this installation is for training.
> But I plan to upgrade it to Sarge.
>>> what should work is if you copy the kernel and ramdisk
>>> from the sarge cd into the mac side, putting their
>>> names into the bootx options. as told in the install
>>> manual for Sarge (but towards the end, its a bit
>>> convoluted there with woody mixed up for those who
>>> can't use bootx...)
> I'll try that.
>>> i have a beige G3 that is RevB (March1998). I am
>>> not sure but i suspect that the Rev A has more
>>> trouble to install. sometimes you can replace
>>> the ROM ...
>>> Do you know which you have (should be on the
>>> motherboard written).
> Mine is RevA (1997).
> You seem to be right.
> I really had troubles as I followed all the possible ways given by the
> Debian documentation or this list.
> As I'm not computer scientist, I read all the archives, followed all the
> tracks...
> Always asking me if I was wrong...when you are not a native english
> speaker the task is sometimes hard :-)
> But it was a real good technical and human lesson...and
>> I'm now very proud to read that Debian/Linux comes
>> with ABSOLUTELY NO
>> WARRANTY...
>> and keep on my technical trip in order to get that
>> machine working
>> following my needs...
>
>
>>> good, too many people get something for free and
>>> right away take it for granted (even partially)
> I'm really pleased with Debian.
> Thanks to all !
>
>> PS : I already run Debian Sarge on a G4 AGP
>
>
>>> you could upgrade that to etch now...
> I know :-)
>
> Kenavo d'an holl
> Claude
>
Can you please upload your gpg key to a keyserver?
It's annoying to read mails whose signature key cannot be retrieved from
a keyserver.
Kind regards,
Marko
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