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From:Andrew Barker
Date:15 Mar 2001 at 16:07:59
Subject:Re: LinuxPPC 2000 installer ?

Alan Buxey wrote:

> 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 :-)
>

Yes, but we have unique Amiga setups, and all the docs I've read contain conflicting
information, and different Linux distros. I'll probably bang together a short text
file
and see if it will help other as crap as myself to setup Linux ;-)

>
> > 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 ;-)
>

We appreciate your efforts !

>
> > 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

I had to plug in my 19" Monitor cos my 14" Samsung wasn't up to the resolution that
the XF86Config provided. I think the Xserver should first use a generic VGA 640x480
setup and we could tweak it from there.

> (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 is so outdated now is that noones updated it - although several people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!)

Hmm, hopefully, since AA got us interested, people will be able to offer their
experiences
for the FAQ and it will in turn help others.

> 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)

Cheers, I will probably try Debian next, but I think I'll have to copy
the files to my HD.

>
> > 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-/

I get no feedback from it. It maybe cos I have a Power Tower with a keyboard
adaptor and a 105 key Windows 95 keyboard. The windows keys are used
as Amiga keys.

> ..perhaps you want to read the 'how to make keymaps' document and give
> yourself a bit of celebrity by supplying some contributions? :-)

:-), well see. I'm already famous in the Speccy emulation world ;-)

> alan
>
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Thanks for the chat,

Regards

Andy Barker (MIS Maintainer - http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/~as0aba/)

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