on 9/9/01 12:02 AM, Sean Fay at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I tried the network install but when I tried to boot to the install-net or
> install-text-net it says not found looking for image. When I try just the
> normal install-atyfb it tells me no net device configure or something ...
> any suggestions?
>
>
> Sean
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stew Benedict
> Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 12:44 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Problems installing PPC 8.0 on PowerBook G3 (New
> World/400/128M/6GB/DVD)
>
>
>
> On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Sean Fay wrote:
>
>> Then let me pose this question ... if I bought the CD's from you folks,
>> should the install process work? Or is it a problem with my G3 Powerbook
> ...
>> if so could it be a problem with the DVD drive?? The only problem with
> that
>> is I do not have a normal cdrom for the powerbook ... I mean I could
> borrow
>> a USB CDRW Drive and try to install using that as the cdrom but I don't
> have
>> a normal powerbook CD drive. Whats the next suggestion??
>>
>
> I'm not going to unconditionally say yes as I haven't personally done an
> install on your particular machine model. I'm pretty sure other folks
> have installed with DVD drives, and the drive reads the data initially,
> enough to get you pretty far into the install.
>
> I think I suggested before a couple of other options, depending on what
> you have available (or maybe this was another thread).
>
> 1) Create an ext2 partition on the hard drive using the rescue mode and
> copy the files to it, then do a hard-drive install.
>
> 2) If you have another machine than can host the files and serve then up
> via ftp, http, or NFS, do a network install. I've personally done dozens
> of network installs here via ftp, and since I upgraded my network to
> 100Mb, it goes quite quickly.
>
> If you opt to try one of these methods and need more guidance, let me
> know. In either of the above cases, I'd just worry about CD1, and if you
> want something from CD2, update it later, when you are up and running.
>
> Stew Benedict
>
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>
I think install-net is for net-booting?
