Hello, I was installing Debian from scratch on a brand-new Apple iBook 600 MHz - the new one with the softmodem, warning everyone!! - and ran into the following problems:
1. If using kernel 2.4, when trying to install the kernel and modules it fails to mount the CD-ROM. Had to go back to kernel 2.2 2. Using kernel 2.2, after installing the base system the installer froze. If I drop myself to the console and kill the bootstrap process, it re-spawned on the console itself - thus leaving me with no functional terminal - and would not accept keyboard input. 3. Thus I had to restart and skip to the 'make system bootable' step, but after rebooting I discovered that the system is so bare-bones that even /etc/fstab is not configured. Had to pass the kernel option 'root=/dev/hdaXX rw' to get the root partition mounted r/w. 4. One thing I forgot: Installer would refuse to mount my /boot partition, which is 15MB formatted as ext2. It insisted that it would only mount ext2/3 partitions, which this one clearly is! The partition type, of course, is Apple_UNIX_SVR2, is it what's causing the problem? The partition table is as follows: hda1 - Apple's partition map hda2-8 - MacOS9 drivers hda9 - MacOS9/X hda10 - Bootstrap (HFS) hda11 - /boot (ext2) hda12 - swap hda13 - root (ext3 - created with the 2.4 kernel) Despite all this I managed to get the system running by manually modifying fstab, but a user installing from scratch would be rather... horrified I would say. Any chance this would be fixed before Woody goes gold? Ah, and one more thing. What is the recommended way to check an ext3 filesystem after a system lock-up? (Using kernel 2.4.16-pmac and trying to load dmasound_pmac). I recall on YDL it would just replay the transaction journal but could not remember how this was done. Regards, and thanks for the excellent work, Michel __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
