I am writing to elicit some help in sorting through why my attempts to install debian-40r0-powerpc-DVD-1.iso do not work.
I have a Mac G5 on which I have put a new Seagate 500GB disk that I want to install debian on. I have Disk Utility to assign around 50 GB to a mac os extended journaled partition and around 425 GB to Free Space. I then put in the dvd for the above mentioned flavor of debian and boot with 'c' held down. Sometimes it boots the dvd. When it does, I see the usual boot options. I choose power64 since that is what the instructions indicate and proceed along with the install. All apparently goes well. The installation completes, I remove the dvd and reboot as instructed. When the options come up I see the usual and expected l, x, and c. However, no matter which option I choose I get the white screen of death, truly an out of body experience...:). I have tried several of the other options such as install, install video=ofonly, install64 video=ofonly, None work. The latter two just give me the info done /pci80.f0000000/ATY,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ATY, opening..._ on the white background and this never progresses. For the install64 to go so apparently smoothly and then the thing does not boot properly it very very disturbing. I note that I have just this week moved or wanted to move from ydl to debian because quite frankly ydl does not have the software support of already built things I really need. Debian on the face of it does. However, when I installed ydl last week everything went smoothly AND it worked with no glitches. So, I am quite perplexed. Can those of you on the list who have done what I am trying to do please help me out? I can provide as much detail as needed. Just did not want to over populate this query with all the gory details. Maybe I am doing something wrong? Surely people who have put up debian 4-r0 on a G5 will have solved problems that I may be overlooking. Thanks for any help you can provide. Comer Duncan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
