Hi there, Here is a brief summary of installer issues forwarded as suggested! Please could you advise me of anything you think might help me please, because i am fed up with using Gentoo ;)
Chrs! Martyn >===== Original Message From The PA/Linux ESIEE Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ===== >Hi, > >I'm a bit swamped nowadays, but here are two things I can suggest: >1) if IDE is broken, you can try to netboot the machine and install from >network (if that's a possible solution for you) >2) in any case, it'd be much appreciated that you report the debian >installer issues to [email protected] > >Hope that helps > > >Thibaut VARENE >The PA/Linux Team >http://www.pateam.org/ > > >On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 02:13:04 +0100 >"Martyn S. Braithwaite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I am emailing you to say that I have also had success installing "kernel > >> 2.4.26-pa6" on my j6000 smp >> under rival distro Gentoo. Thing is that I really prefer Debian, but >it's damn >> near impossible to install >> your distro on a j6000. The thing is any kernel below 2.4.26 doesn't >have USB >> support (no keyboard), >> and kernels of 2.6 or above don't have CDROM support due to what seems >like >> linus's atapi-kernel >> modules rethink! Truth is out of all the parisc kernels i have tried >2.4.26 is >> the only one that works >> fully. >> >> I've tried looking in your ISO install file for the kernel binary but i >can't >> find it anywhere so i can't >> transplant the exact kernel that i need. And it's pretty tricky for me >to >> compile a kernel atm because i >> am stuck with a g/fs lappy runnign os x as desktop machine. I don't see >how >> necessary it should be to >> compile from source such a uniform CPU archecture anyway. >> >> Is there any chance you could upload or advise me where i can obtain a >debian >> install iso image (or the >> files to make one) so i would have a debian iso image of binary kernel >2.4.26* >> so we j6000 users will be >> happy? Even just a binary image of a kernel 2.4.26 (not source) and a >script >> to patch over a loop'd >> mounted cdrom iso of a debian install cdrom would be great! >> >> Keep up the good work! >> >> Martyn >> (freelance neural network development) >> >> PS Although i didn't manage to get debian working on j6000, i did manage >to >> get it working on my old >> HP Visualise C200, and it worked fine before the PSU failed (R19 >problem. >> apparently quite common in >> those machines). >> >> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
