And what are you using for install disks? The ones in the archive as of a few days ago should work far better than this, and have in fact been reported to.
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 07:54:24AM -0800, Brian Macy wrote: > Little note on hardware... I actually wrote this to some friends at 2am > last night... > - StarMax 4000 > - Using IDE drives > - PS/2 keyboard/mouse (but I tried the ADB stuff when the keymapping > hosed) > - Had LinuxPPC 1999 installed before > - Using BootX > - Used one of my compiled kernels a few times when I needed to get it > > Now that makes me want to go out and kill things. Debian PPC is in Sid > still for a *very* good reason... it is nearly impossible to install. In > fact there is *no* way to install it with the install images > available... I guess I shouldn't say no way because after 7 hours of > hacking I managed to get a working install. > > - the rescue disk image is either corrupted or just don't work... linux > doesn't think there is a valid FS on it (downloaded it twice just to be > sure) > - the install program is broke. It's setup to look for the powermac > stuff in a "Power" directory when it is supposed to be a "powermac" > directory. I couldn't get the install to swallow grabbing the stuff > normally on the rescue disk from a modified http source. I had to burn > the tree it wanted on CD to get it to swallow it. > - the install program has some "issues" with figuring out whether or not > a CD is mounted already... behaves really nasty when it gets screwed up > (bumps you back to one of several different screens which seems at > random) > - the install program is looking for keymap's named *.bmp.gz, the file > has them called *.bmap.gz, and I think in reality they are supposed to > be *.kmap.gz... doesn't really matter since it is grabbing the i386 > keymap which makes the machine unusable if you ever get the thing booted > off the hard drive (fortunately single user mode is your friend... > deleting the /root/dbbootstrap_settings and > /etc/console-tools/default.kmap.gz files takes care of it) > - the install OS kernel and modules is bogus too... fortunately you can > get enough stuff without modules to get the machine seeing the net > > Fortunately it is now installed and behaving happily... hopefully this > torture will pay for itself in the long run with upgrades being trivial. > > I'm frightened to think what installing Debian on an Alpha is going to > be like. Makes the Debian i386 installs feel like a nice back massage :) > > Brian Macy > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
