language, not PowerPC.
Hope that helps!
Rick
On Monday, March 29, 2004, at 02:32 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 07:00:06PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote
I'll do whatever I can to help with testing.
No problem. If you feel like disassembling the miboot stage 1
boot-sector, and providing me
Maybe we could get the boot-sector code declared OK to use by Apple?
It would be a hack the system kind of thing, but I suppose
technically they wouldn't have to release the copyright on the
source code for the boot sector, just the derived sequence of
binary bits.
Indeed, Apple may have
Yes. It's the new debian-installer on an OldWorld PowerMac.
Jeremie has pointed out that one floppy worth of drivers should be
enough to give you access to either a CD-ROM or a network, and
that's all you really need. So this is actually a wishlist
request. I have no problem with that.
So
Here's a thought. First some background:
Last night, just to prove it could be done, I succeeded (first try)
in using BootX under MacOS9 on an OldWorld PowerMac G3 (beige
mini-tower) to load and run the debian-installer kernel and initrd
downloaded from:
Sven Luther wrote:
Rick wrote:
Now the part of debian-installer that died on me last night has an
easy fix: Simply do not install any boot loader at all for that
subarchitecture.
Rick, Quik can easily be used to boot from CD, no problem, sadly it
cannot be used to boot from floppies,
Joey Hess wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
I got as far as the point where the d-i tries to install a
bootloader. It died there because there is no boot loader for the
oldworld subarchitecture.
It's good to know that it got that far.
Declare that all OldWorld machines must have
Malte,
Errors like that are usually symptomatic of a dirty/dusty floppy drive.
Buy and use a floppy drive cleaning kit (a bottle of isopropanol
and a floppy-like thing with a non-abrasive fibrous disk in place
of the usual shiny oxide coated disk). Don't be afraid to use it
couple of times if
Jeremie Koenig wrote:
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 11:35:04AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
so I may not have picked the right
module(s). Which ones should I have used?
You mean, in anna when loading the floppy ? Pickup everything, and
hopefully your scsi host will be detected.
--
Jeremie
(and abused!) by students in a public
computer lab. I'll try swapping the floppy drive with a known
good one and try again. Though that may take a couple of days.
So, can we make a root.img file that will fit on a 1.440 MB disk?
Hope this helps!
Rick
Rick Thomas wrote:
Thanks,
I'll
Thanks! You're very kind. I'm still (figuratively) learning where
the bathrooms are, but with help from friends like you I'll be up
and running in no time.
I'll have to learn how to do svs, docbook, xml and so on myself
eventually, and that's one of my top priorities. In the mean time,
Let me second Jeremy's suggestion.
I keep DHCP turned on on my router because my printer needs it, but
I much prefer to have everything (except the printer -- sigh!) have
statically assigned IP addresses. I know I could do that with
DHCP, but why bother if I don't have to?
Enjoy!
Rick
On
Here's a larger question:
Why do I have to subject myself to the full-monty expert mode when
I just want one tiny feature that isn't completely covered by
normal mode? Shouldn't it be possible to dip down into expert
territory for just the parts you need fine control over, and return
to
On Saturday, March 20, 2004, at 01:22 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Ok, copying to debian-boot, since this is most relevant there, and to
rick thomas, which volunteered to help with installation manual. Rick,
this is a boot method on a chrp-rs6k ibm box. I don't know if you are
familiar with these boxes
Thanks! This will be very helpful. Please see my notes below...
On Saturday, March 20, 2004, at 04:17 AM, Miroslav Kure wrote:
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:42:51AM -0500, Rick_Thomas wrote:
I would be very grateful If you (or someone else on this list) could
point me at the chapters and sections
If not, ask smart questions[1]
[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
I sincerely hope that what I've been asking so far are not viewed as
dumb questions!
Here's my first feedback on the manual (since I have to read the manual
before I can start using the installer!)
Frans,
That's wonderful! However, nothing's easy. I get not found errors
from both of those links. Am I missing something?
Thanks!
Rick
Frans Pop wrote:
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On Thursday 18 March 2004 03:35, Rick_Thomas wrote:
Is the Preliminary Sarge
Ahhh... That worked!
As I said, Nothing's easy!. I need the PowerPC version. This one's
for the i386. Could I impose on you to generate a PowerPC version for
me? (Sorry to be a pain!)
Thanks in advance!
Rick
Frans Pop wrote:
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Sorry,
I like it!
Ideally, the selector would look at the sub-arch and only offer
those bootloader options that work on that sub-arch?
Rick
On Thursday, January 29, 2004, at 03:39 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Ideally, but i don't know if this is beta2 stuff, a bootloader selector
would be done, which on
Yeah! Please do this!
On Sunday, January 25, 2004, at 09:26 PM, Jeremie Koenig wrote:
Also, what about adding the C and POSIX locales somehow ?
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, Rick Thomas wrote:
Hardware:
PowerMac 6500/225 with 128MB of RAM and a 6GB SCSI disk
partitioned as 2.5GB for MacOS, 3.0 GB for Linux root (an
all-in-one filesystem) and 500 MB for Linux swap. It also has a
SCSI CD-RW drive and a floppy drive.
Software: MacOS 9.1 with Roxio Toast
Hi Rolando,
I'm also trying to get debian installer working on an OldWorld PowerMac.
See my comments below...
Enjoy!
Rick
Rolando Abarca wrote:
Hello,
this is my second try to install sarge on my PowerMac 7200/120, this time
... snip ...
Everything went smooth from here, until it tried
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