Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 04:16:47PM -0600, Jeremiah Merkl wrote: > > ...wow...that was slick. I did a network install, and only had one problem. > > > > Installed on a G3-all-in-one 233MHz, 96M ram, using BootX (will > > switch to yaboot soon). > > make sure you create a 800K Apple_Bootstrap type bootstrap partition > as the first partition on the disk. Already done, in preparation. :) Now I just have to sit down and read how to use yaboot/ybin properly. Anyone have those pointers to online docs done yet? > > > As it turns out, this machine (at least mine, I don't know about all > > of them) is a little unique in that the internal HD is hdc, and the > > CD is hda. > > wierd, its funny i have yet to see a powermac that has hdc used, on my > blue G3 the cdrom is on secondary master but the device is hde, unlike > intel where it would be hdc. what gives? > > > this wouldn't be a problem, except the base system that I pulled down > > (base-2_2.tgz from 2.2.13-2000-05-04) is completely missing > > /dev/hdc* and hdd. I thought it was funny that it had hda, hdb, and > > hde, f, g and h, but no c or d. > > probably because most machines don't seem to use these devices.. you > should be able to create them yourself... I had no problem doing that, but still. How big are the files in /dev that the hdc and hdd files were left out? Shouldn't they just have been there for completeness, in case the odd non-apple powermac actually uses hdc? > > So who gets the bug report? base, base-files, base-config, or what? > > not sure.. :) Anyone else have any thoughts? I'll file it against base-files otherwise, and let the maintainer to tell me that it's not their problem. > > As an aside, anyone know what happened to console-apt? I liked it a > > whole lot more than aptitude. > > it got removed from potato for dubious release critical bugs :( you > should be able to find the package in woody. (well maybe, woody on > powerpc, and even i386 is rather broken at the moment) > blast. You mean I shouldn't be running several of my machines under "unstable"? :) I'm just a glutton for punishment, I guess. :) -Jeremiah Merkl
