On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 08:07:18AM -0700, Brian wrote: > I've been trying to install Debian onto my G5. I'd like to > report my attempts. How should i go about doing that.
debian-boot may well be better than debian-powerpc. > In general i tried daily/powerpc/20040627/ > sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso. install-power4 leads to a > problem with the floppy. Using expert-power4 i can > circumvent it. However the fans still rev up. > > I tried to modprobe therm_pm72. But even after mounting > the cd i couldn't find the module. Is therm_pm72 essential to the installation? > Reading the kernel Changelogs i see that BenH applied a > fix to the 2.6 kernel. So i tried expert-power4-2.6. This > leads to a hang at: > Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 8 ports, IRQ > sharing disabled. daily is sarge_d-i, which is old. > I tried testing/sid_d-i/powerpc/20040627/ > sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso > > install-power4-2.6 leads to a hang when it asks for which > language i want to use. I think i've read this before as a > keyboard problem. USB keyboard, right? Jens and I talked about this on IRC yesterday and I checked in a fix. I've just uploaded usb-discover 0.18 which should fix this when it makes it into CD images. > install-power4 leads to the floppy problem. That was a problem with the initrd builds. It should be fixed now, so the next sid_d-i build should have it fixed. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
