Knoppix on Mac

Downloaded ppc version of knoppix "knoppix-MIB-ppc-alpha-2e" and wont boot from cd on my imac flat 15" .... mac osx start as usual

i've read that tha knoppix MIB alpha can do wierd stuff to a previously named SWAP partition?
if im on a tibook running debian and osx [and have a partition named Swap for linux], is it safe to run the live knoppix cd???

thanks, i hope someone has already tryied this.

For those of you that have been testing out the earlier versions of k-mib-ppc:



New iso pre8 - Please test the X autoconfiguration
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Hello,

a new iso is available. Image is 157M.
$ md5sum k-mib-ppc-beta-pre8.iso
bc319953407b23f33edccd56e6bd3609 k-mib-ppc-beta-pre8.iso
$ ls -s --block-size=1 k-mib-ppc-beta-pre8.iso
164483072 k-mib-ppc-beta-pre8.iso

Just run startx after the boot, to check the configuration for X.
You will have just an error message about xsession. Move the cursor to
check the display is correct everywhere, and report (with machine type,
graphic card, display).

kdesktop is here but Xsession no configured yet.

Changes:
* kernel 2.6.0 from ben's tree (2.6.0-ben1).
* busybox 1.0.0-pre4 in the initrd (support 2.6 modules).
* XF4.3, with Xserver-4.4rc1 (cvs Changelog Date: 05 December 2003).
* loop-aes and ciphers v2.0b
* type lang=XX at boot. You will have a PC keyboard.

Regards,
--
Yves Combe
Formateur TICE
IUFM de Montpellier - Site de Nîmes

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It can be downloaded from most of the mirriors listed here:

https://www.bouissou.net/knoppix-mib...oppix-Mib.html


Cheers,
Thomas Hardly

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Originally Posted by alejo

i've read that tha knoppix MIB alpha can do wierd stuff to a previously named SWAP partition?
if im on a tibook running debian and osx [and have a partition named Swap for linux], is it safe to run the live knoppix cd???

thanks, i hope someone has already tryied this.

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IF your partition named Swap is a swap partition, this is not a problem. it will be used to do swap. If it's a data partition, it will be erased to do swap: that is the problem.
There is a bug: if your swap partition is used by knoppix-mib-ppc-alpha-2e, it cannot be used after by your debian system. You just need to rerun mkswap on it to repair it.

I have started Knoppix-MiB, but the iBook just suddenly tuned itself off before I got to the part of the boot-up where you see the Penguin.

Knoppix for PPC, on the other hand, boots but doesn't start kdeinit. I'm going to try it with xserver=fbdev.

There seems to be some problems with ibooks and xwindows up to beta- pre10. A new beta pre11 is to be out very soon with a fix hopefully.


Thomas

Using Knoppix-MiB-ppc pre10:

I got X to come up on my 350mhz iMac (I believe it's a Blueberry, probably the educational bottom-end model at the time.) Boots fine, autodetection seems to work fine, but startx fails with a line like:
" no device at PCI:0:16:0"

Doing a search, this seems like a common problem with the ATi Rage128.

I had to edit the XF86Config-4 file Device section to get X to appear.
The section ends with:

BusID ="PCI:"

I changed it to

BusID ="PCI:0:16:0"
ChipID = 0x524c

(0x524c being the chip ID reported by Apple System Profiler.) After this, startx brings up the X background and the "no xsession" error, which I believe is the correct behavior for this small (157M) version?

Would this indicate some kind of error writing the XF86Config file during autodetection? The console prints quite a few messages during boot explicitly identifying the graphics chip, so Knoppix-MiB-PPC must be getting that part right.

Hope this helps. Thank you and waiting for pre11!

Pete Giovagnoli

Hi, I have been following the knoppix development for a while and recently stumbled across knoppix for the PowerPC. I have downloaded the images and burned them on a windoz box but was unsuccessful with booting them. I’m not sure if I need to burn the images on a Mac. I don’t have direct access to a Mac, but I can manage to gain temporary access to one if needed too. Any comments or suggestions are appreciated, Thnx.


(I hope this is the right form, I never do get it right :) )

How is this different from OS X which is the latest MAC OS and is based on Linux?

Regards,
AJG

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Originally Posted by someone0012

I have downloaded the images and burned them on a windoz box but was unsuccessful with booting them.

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You just have to "burn the image" in a good enough CD burner software. On a mac that's works, with old k3b the image was not bootable.

You boot from CD in a Mac putting the "C" key pressed at boot.

Wich image, where did you get it, and wich model of Mac?