On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Phil Lavigna wrote: > > Hi Stew, > > > I've done several successful cooker install on my iMac using this ISO. > > There were a couple of small mods I had to make to the 8.2 install > > sequence, but it all seems to be working now. I'm not real interested in > > installer issues, as 9.0 x86 made significant changes to the installer, > > and part of my goals for 9.1 will be to try to catch back up with the main > > installer and get it working again on PPC. If you do find issues, go > > ahead and post, just be aware that the installer will be undergoing > > change. > > I have a 550MHz TiBook (the same one that I sent during 8.2 testing). I > tried launching the installer with various boot options (install-radeon, > install-aty, install-aty128fb), but the screen turns black when the graphical > installer should appear. At that point console 1 says "Entering step 'Choose > your language'", but nothing appears on console 7. I'm pretty sure this Mac > used 'install-radeon' for 8.2. >
Odd, that shouldn't have changed. The changes I made were yaboot related and an odd residual rpm thing that left __db.* files behind and later generated errors at dhcpd setup. Since you're installing from a mirror though you're falling back into the same trap of using the bad stage2 code that's on the mirrors. That was the primary reason for making this ISO. > I then tried the default boot option (by not making any selection at all) > and the graphical installer appeared in a strange blue color. I was able to > choose the Installation class, but then received the error: > "Can't access kernel modules corresponding to your kernel (file > /lib/modules.cz-2.4.18-4mdkBOOT is missing)". The same error message appeared > when I tried a text-based installation from two different mirrors. > > The readme file says "You need to prep your RPM download directory." Does > that mean we *have* to conduct a local install? I don't have a local > repository of PPC Cooker yet so I used: > ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/cooker/ppc/ and > ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.mandrake-linux.com/Mandrake-devel/cooker/ppc/ > Personally, I'd never try to install from a mirror. There's a very good chance that the files there are not in a good state (bad installer, depslist, files changing while you're trying to install them). There's nothing I can do about what is on the mirrors. I use the same upload scripts as everyone else, so your best bet is to download the RPMS somewhere locally and use the stage2 tree on the ISO and generate the depslist like the README says. Sorry for any confusion. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc
