On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 03:11, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 04:39:45PM -0400, Colin Foran wrote: > > Well ive been at this most of the day, still no dice. I've made another > > copy of > > the first Debian cd and tried to restart the base install. While I do get > > fewer > > errors, I still cant complete the process. > > I have tried to copy the iso to hard disk, but that gets cut off even sooner > > than using the installer. > > I have had a bit of luck with just trying to "apt-get install ---", it > > seems to > > work with some things, but not with others. > > I've been thinking about it, and i cant really imagine that this is a driver > > problem. After asking around, all of the people ive talked to told me that > > their > > old world powermacs came with the old Matshita cdroms, so its not as though > > we > > are dealing with an obscure piece of hardware. > > I've checked the inside of the box, and my scsi chain is terminated > > correctly, > > so I dont suspect Evil SCSI Voodoo (tm) to be the problem. > > Any ideas? > > and thanks to all those that are trying to help me out, I really appreciate > > it > > -Cheers > > Another idea along the same lines, trying to avoid the CD. I assume > the downloaded iso file is on one of your mac partitions? How about > 1. start the installer (or maybe your system will handle this) > 2. create a 650MB partition which will simulate the CD, say /dev/hda10 > 3. mount the mac partition in console 2 > 4. dd directly from the iso file on the mac partition to /dev/hda10 > 5. Quit the installer, boot your regular system and mount -t iso9660 > /dev/hda10 /cdrom
Do you deliberately try to avoid a loopback device? ;) -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
