Re: X on new G4 Dual 533
Geez, I would first try booting from the CD and doing an install the
real way. It's about a billion times easier than all this. If you
boot off the CD, the kernel chokes when trying to mount the
ramdisk? I certainly hope not. I drool at the thought of a dual
G4.
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Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> fheitka@attglobal.net wrote:
> >
> > I managed to get a debian system installed on my new G4 533 dual. I have
> > only limited experience with debian. Please forgive my ignorance.
>
> No worries, welcome Fred! :)
>
> > I could not used the debian ramdisk image for some reason so
> > I used the linuxPPC Q4 ramdisk. (The debian ramdisk would not go past the
> > release notes and machine check screen.)
> >
> > So I had to moved the unconfigured.sh out of the way and do some
> > configuring by hand.
>
> Better use dpkg-reconfigure base-config .
>
> > Can some one give me an example on how to install a major package like
> > X11, off a cdrom using Apt? Apt always wants to go to the internet
> > instead of the cdrom. This might be because I have no cdrom entry in my
> > fstab.
>
> That would probably have to be fixed first, and if you haven't chosen to get
> packages from CD in the base config, you must run apt-cdrom when the CD is
> inserted to add it to /etc/apt/sources.list .
>
> > The system will not let me edit fstab even though I am "root" and
> > the disk is read/right. Has anyone ever heard of this?
>
> No, please give more information.
>
> > I managed to install many packages using dpkg but this is definitely the
> > hard way, right?
>
> Yes...
>
> > Using Apt how does one construct an install command from the package name.
> > i.e. if I have package foo-1.4.4.deb how do I get the package to install
> > from cdrom using apt?
>
> It doesn't work with the debs directly, apt-cdrom and then apt-get install
> <package name> .
>
> > Also, lastly, is there an X server that works with the GForce2 video in my
> > new G4?
>
> 4.x (in testing or unstable) has the nv driver, but I wouldn't expect that to
> work on PPC yet. You'll most likely have to use an fbdev server. Does rivafb
> work?
>
> --
> Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
> CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
>
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