| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 15 Mar 2001 at 12:09:40 |
| Subject: | Re: LinuxPPC 2000 installer ? |
hi,
> Remember Alan, not everyone is as clued up as you are. I know how you must
> feel.
> I'm a Technician, and I find some things very easy and cannot comprehend why
> the Students/Staff cannot perform, what seems to me as simple tasks on our
> computers/software.
point taken...but almost ALL Linux stuff is documented in triplicate :-)
> By the sound of it you have lots of Linux installation experience.
not really...only installed it handful of times...however i have helped
people a lot ;-)
> I found it very bewildering to get anything working. I got that X system
> working
> yesterday night using the RPMS from the LinuxPPC 2000 (1999 Q3) CD (HFS
> Filesystem).
>
> I got Michel's XF68_Dev file and used a XF86Config file (cannot remember which
> one, since
> I had 6 in my directory). Magically it worked. I have had huge help from
> yourself and others
> on this list. So thanks. Now I may try and upgrade to XFree 86 4.xxx.
getting X working as you did was actually the way to do it for XFree 3.x
- its the method that i believe is still documented in the APUS FAQ
(btw, FAQs dont magically update themselves...the reason why the APUS one
is so outdated now is that noones updated it - although several people
said they'd help only 5 lines have been submitted/edited in one year!)
XFree4.x precompiles from LinuxPPC may have problems with APUS. I'd be
happy if you could mail me in private if you come up against any problems.
(under debian you just do a 'apt-get dist-upgrade' with a test-site in
your APT list)
> Now all I need to find is a amiga-pc-gb.map file that gives me the '|' keypress
> ;-)
> I really need this because piping is a way of life in the Linux shell(s) :-)
sure is! the '|' is readily accessible with standard Amiga US map... i
think its with shift-tilde or shift-/
..perhaps you want to read the 'how to make keymaps' document and give
yourself a bit of celebrity by supplying some contributions? :-)
alan
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