"For those of us less savy in the linux world - those distributions are appealing, as they leave some things less to chance (the chance of someone like me breaking the system) while providing a great selection of programs, with autodetect and automount already in place."
That is awesome, but unfortunatly would already be beyond what Vito originally desired I believe. Per Vito comment above, the benefit of doing this would be for the Ubuntu Installer. Let it do everything for you. Since Debian is already installed and this is a distro upgrade to the Ubuntu repositories, wouldn't we already be past all configuration abilities provided by the installer and base config applications? I'm not sure an apt-get dist-upgrade would walk you through this stuff and reconfigure everything as if it were a fresh install, but I could be wrong.
However, back to Vito's point, Vito, are you not getting the Debian installer to autodetect hardware and set up automounts in fstab? Maybe I am confused on what you are expecting out of Ubuntu that Debian didn't do for you?
As for Ubuntu, I may try this sometime this week. Very nice indeed.
icedtrip
On 2/28/06, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
I was able to install Ubuntu a while back, by first doing a minimal
debian install, and then changing the repositories
in /etc/apt/sources.list from Debian to Ubuntu repositories. After an
apt-get dist-upgrade my pb1400cs had Ubuntu Breezy installed.
Peter
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
> Hi Vito,
>
> you can only install distributions that support the 2.4 kernel.
> So knoppix will not work.
> As far as I know Suse does no longer support the PowerPC and I don't
> know where to get CD images from.
> On the mailing list was a report of a successful install of Ubuntu
> 4.10 (Warty Warthog).
>
> Tobias
>
>
>
> Am 28.02.2006 um 18:11 schrieb Vito:
>
> Has anyone out there gotten knoppix, Suse or Ubuntu working on
> the nubus machines with the current miboot image that tobias,
> Daniel, Florian and others have worked on? For those of us
> less savy in the linux world - those distributions are
> appealing, as they leave some things less to chance (the
> chance of someone like me breaking the system) while providing
> a great selection of programs, with autodetect and automount
> already in place.
>
> Vito
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Vito < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:56:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay
> hotplug patches
>
> thx again
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Florian Boelstler < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:51:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay
> hotplug patches
>
>
>
> Guy Paddock wrote:
> I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off
> during startup
> recovery too. I have found that the only work-around
> is to boot from the
> installer and run mount.
>
> I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the
> installer
> components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are
> loaded) and
> then switch to a shell.
>
> Then I manually invoke the repair process:
> fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/...
> ^^
> To be replaced by your root partition.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Florian
>
>
>
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