On Saturday 21 December 2002 07:50 pm, Stew Benedict wrote: > On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: > > On Saturday 21 December 2002 12:27 pm, you wrote: > > Hopefully I can explain, > > > > When I downloaded the cooking ppc off of sunet.se, and started the > > installation process using the bootX I installed from your cd-iso, the > > new stage two from sunet.se that I now have does not load sucessfully. > > > > follow? > > Don't use the installer stuff from the mirrors it's known to be broken. > that's the purpose of the ISO, and I thought I explained things reasonably > well in the README. All you want from the mirrors are the RPMs. > > The installer stuff on the mirrors has been broken for close to a year and > most likely will remain that way. > Great but when using the cd-iso to do the installation, and we get to the part where we select and install packages, how do you get it to look for the rpm repository on ftp rather than cd?
> > > On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: > > > > I recently mirrored ftp.sunet.se, 2.5 GB in the ppc directory, when > > > > loading 2nd stage bz2 the kernel oopses at about %90 bar, while > > > > waiting "loading program into memory" > > > > I noticed this line in the oops comments printed to screen > > > > > > > > last math c045c000 last altivec 00000000 > > > > > > > > This is a g3 wallstreet so no altavec is avaliable. > > > > > > You've pretty much lost me, 2 messages ago, you were into stage2 with > > > package errors. > > > > > > Stew Benedict > > > > -- > > 1:56pm up 19:26, 7 users, load average: 0.18, 0.07, 0.02 > > Stew Benedict -- 8:21pm up 1 day, 1:52, 9 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
