> > Hearthstone: > > Dear Brian, > > I am still trying to boot using miboot floppies: > > Dmesg says I have an ATA hd. > I/O error in sector 2, 4, 6, 0, 2, 4, 6 (in that > order).
this could mean your disk has a bad format of some sort. do you have any mac os on there, or can you get it. the reccomended and really the only fully supported way to install with old pci mac is with macos 8.6 or better and bootx booter from mac os. however if i had no macos at all i would try netbsd, (there is netbsd port in debian but i mean the original). either netbsd or debian if you have no macos you are going to have big learning experiences with openfirmware to eventually boot with quik. with netbsd you have to deal with it right away from the start... as far as i can tell from reading here, i have not used miboot but it seems like a last resort, perhaps as a jump start, to get debian installer going, at best. > > Control and F3 says that insmod: vfat.o: no module > by > that name found > and that > modprobe: failed to load module vfat. this makes me suspicious that your cd was burned in the wrong format: that is in dos/fat not as an iso. please tell where and how you made it. (i burned my cds on a newer mac running either osx.2 jaguar with disk copy or x.3 panther with disk utility. i am experimenting now with linux utilities (been lazy so far). anyway some of the ways of burning cds i know people use they do not work correctly, resulting in an unreadable cd (eg toast lite or macos finder). However if the cd is burned correctly it should be readable either in linux or in mac os. > > uname -a says:Linux (none) 2.4.27-powerpc-small #1 > Tue > May 30 23:57:04 UTC 2006 ppc unknown. > > Control and F4 says a plenty; what I thought was > important was: > libc6 doesn't exist > hw-detect doesn't exist > debconf doesn't exist > configure cdrom-detect, status 2 (once it said > status > 4) all this is i think because it can't get to the cd. > > > Still no cdrom found. > > > Next I try net-install, hoping for a better luck. > I am getting a NIC Apple COMM Slot II 10baseT--is > there any info on how good this card is for > installing > Debian? > Would a Farallon card be any better? possibly, if it is pci, i don't know what is the chipset of Farallon. > > Any more intelligence will be greatly appreciated! another thing to consider is your memory, some others here could do with less but i would recommend no less than 64mB and preferably at least 128. the more web searching and homework reading preparation you can do the better off you are. brian > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Have a burning question? Go to www.Answers.yahoo.com and get answers from real people who know. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
