On Sunday, September 29, 2002, at 10:59 AM, Pascal Gagnon wrote:
>> Re-burn the 8.2 install CD and boot from it. You should be able to >> tell it to do FTP, NFS, etc. installs and this might work (I can't be >> 100% sure as it might still be looking for 8.2 packages). > > I re-burn the 8.2 install CD. Still didn't boot. After some google > research, > i did a full-reset of openfimware. The 8.2 install CD did boot but i > can't > do any other installation that "install-text". Do the install in text mode then. I know it's a PITA, but it was the only way I could get 8.2 and cooker to install on my G4 lamp. > All the video installation finish by a black with blue vertical line > screen > and the > Install-net-* (text, text-2.2...) gives me this error: > "enet:0:2,\\vmlinux: Unknown or corrupt filesystem" > or > "enet:0:2,\\vmlinux-2.2: Unknown or corrupt filesystem" Never tried a 2.2-based install myself, but I would really think you need to go with a 2.4 install (or at least you should). > Guess I'll try once again to do a minimal 8.2 install then urpmi > everything > from cooker. > Didn't work a month ago but now maybe... You may have some cleaning up to do (I did), but now the machine works quite well, aside from some other quirks. >> Something to try. I made a 2 CD set for cooker PPC and installed it >> using text mode. You could try the same thing. > > Been there, tried that. Perl (version) and free space problems I > think. I > gived up and I deleted everything since then and I could not afford to > rsync > 2Gig again (bandwidth quota) just to retry. > > Any simple and minimal image available (like the network.img for i586) > for > ppc just to start a ftp installation ? I don't know. Someone else might (Stew?) but I have no clue on that. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx - source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD: 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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