On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 07:44:14PM +0200, Eric Deveaud wrote: > > Hi, > > Santa-claus comes today with this new machine. > I've asked him to add a SCSI card and a 73Gb SCSI disk, in order to put > linux. > > the SCSI card is an adaptec 29160N > > whille trying to boot on the debian-30r0-powerpc-binary-1, bad luck, > neither the ata100 drive, neither the SCSI disk are seen. > > as far as I've understood my google search, I have to switch the > drive from the ata100 to the ata66 bus in order to be able to use it > under linux. This is the easy part. > > and for the adaptec card support, I have to compile a fresh kernel > > 2.4.7 > > is there an iso of an install disk including such a kernel with the > 29160 driver ?
The 3.0 distribution's new-powermac flavor uses a 2.4.18 kernel. Probably it doesn't include your special driver. The kernel is available as a separate package, look in the package pool for kernel-image-2.4.18-powerpc. > if not I'll build a kernel on my pismo, an boot from disk as I > will perform a network install. > > In this case I would like to know which is the magic incantation > to boot from the internal IDE drive. More exactly the way to find the > device name under OF. > > I've done this long time ago while installing my pismo, but I don't > remember the "vaudou" OF incantation. boot hd:xx,yaboot (Check for specifics of the setup in the install manual). -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual> | | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To Have, Give All to All (ACIM) | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
