Re: 2.3.5 powerpc installation

2001-06-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 11:08:10PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: So more attention will need to be paid to getting all the possibly needed net driver modules into the installer (for example, last time I checked, rtl8139 or 8139too wasn't available for powerpc; that's what I need for my all

2.3.5 powerpc installation

2001-06-10 Thread Chris Tillman
I downloaded the 6/7 powerpc version of 2.3.5 from http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/ powermac/ I completed an install on my newworld, up to installation of base, with no show stoppers. The dhcp worked great, I verified I could ping on the net. The new

Re: 2.3.5 powerpc installation

2001-06-10 Thread David Whedon
option, when it would have ordinarily displayed my choices: Directory error; the supplied directory does not exist, please enter a new one. The above should be fixed in cvs. -David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: 2.3.5 powerpc installation

2001-06-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 03:30:04PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: Here are some opportunities: During Install Operating System and Modules, I chose to install from an already-mounted (HFS) hard disk filesystem. I mounted it thru the installer, so it would know about it; but I got an immediate

Re: 2.3.5 powerpc installation

2001-06-10 Thread Chris Tillman
/target/ for hard disks. Since stuff gets mounted under /target by the installer, and it doesn't tell the user that, it's not immediately obvious that the /target prefix is needed for paths. your supposed to let the installer mount the hard disk partition when you select `install from hard

Re: 2.3.5 powerpc installation

2001-06-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 06:43:37PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: Well one of the options is 'already mounted partition' so I thought that should be tested. You're right, it's probably not a common choice. That's interesting about the fstab; so if I manually mount an HFS disk during

Re: 2.3.5 powerpc installation

2001-06-10 Thread Chris Tillman
the base tarball is obsolete, install the base system now uses debootstrap to install read debs. an unfortunate side affect of this is that you MUST install the base either via the network, from a CDROM, or a ext2 partition with a full debian mirror. crippled filesystems need not apply