Hi,

I'm up against the wall (working 4 hours with no soln.). I've downloaded
the 1st CD (docs say that is enough to get going) of official potato and
mounted it -t iso9660 -o loop. Then I've exported it via nfs. (want to
check out before burning the CD). dd both boot and root floppies. Start up
PowerPC 8550/200 with sda (probably all macs come with sda, I don't know)
and inserted boot, and then root. Started installation and installed base
system via nfs. works fine if I chroot to /target . After reboot mac
cannot boot from sda and asks for floppy. I boot up using floppy mount
sda2 and can see that every thing is ok in the partition. The docs say
something about yaboot being better than quik for new world macs, but the
default install uses quik. I tried to make a Apple_Bootstrap partition but
that didn't work out, and I'm unable to make a hfs partition (the 800k
partition mentioned in the docs). So how do I make the system boot from
sda? SCSI port is on board and since I can use the disk probably this is
no driver problem.


And one more problem:

I installed SuSE-6.4 on intel machine with 3Com FDDI card model 3C805. How
do I use it? I couldn't locate a suitable module from kernel docs or
lib/modules of the default install (card is showing up in proc/pci but
that's all (vendor unknown). 3Com site o floppy has no modules or drivers.
Default kernel seems to be FDDI enabled.


Hope someone has seen these before,
Thanks,
Indraneel


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