, 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
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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On Sunday, August 29, 2004, at 04:31 AM, Rick_Thomas wrote:
I tried the new 2.4 PowerMac floppys today. Now I get the Red X on
the 2.4 boot floppy as well.
I did an experiment...
I mounted the 2.4 boot floppy and extracted the zImage file,
uncompressed it, and compared it to the
Sven Luther wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
Is it possible the objcopy is corrupting it?
This is indeed a possibility.
I will disable this again for the 2.4 floppies, and we will see tomorrow what
happens.
That said, the 2.6 floppies are too big to work with miboot without the
objcopy -O
On Monday, August 30, 2004, at 04:41 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 08:23:28AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 01:58:34AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Sven Luther wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
Is it possible the objcopy is corrupting it?
This is indeed a possibility.
I
Sven,
It's 2:15 AM, and I've got a meeting tomorrow at work, so I won't
be able to test these tonight. I'll try to get to them tomorrow
(9/1) in the evening (US East Coast time).
Please do me a favor and loop-mount the images to see if they have
all the expected pieces and the pieces are of
On Wednesday, September 1, 2004, at 04:45 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Ok, try out :
http://people.debian.org/~luther/miboot/floppy-2.6-2004.09.01
I have checked the ofonlyboot, boot and root floppies.
I tried this -- the usual 30 seconds or so of floppy noises
followed by Red X for both the boot and
Joey Hess wrote:
Can you mail the /var/log/debian-installer/syslog and messages to this
The complete set of logs and other system info from that install are
available at:
http://rcthomas.org:7879/~rbthomas/logfiles/install-6500/
I can mail them to the bug if you like, but why
Joey Hess wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
http://rcthomas.org:7879/~rbthomas/logfiles/install-6500/
Permissions prevent me from reading the syslog.
Fixed. Sorry!
Rick
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Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 06 September 2004 19:53, Joey Hess wrote:
AfAIK hwclock output never includes the timezone.
I'm afraid it does.
On a system installed with LANG=en_US (on which I based my report):
# hwclock --show --localtime | awk '{NF-=2; print $0}'
Mon 06 Sep 2004
On Monday, September 6, 2004, at 11:00 PM, Joey Hess wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
Apparently, it looks at the LANG environment variable...
LANG=C /sbin/hwclock --show --localtime
gives
Tue Sep 7 02:22:16 2004 -0.463550 seconds
but
LANG=en_US /sbin/hwclock --show --localtime
On Wednesday, September 8, 2004, at 05:18 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 04:17:55AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote:
Package: installation-reports
powerpc boot-floppy 20040906 OldWorld PowerMac
...
Then I tried the boot floppy. It gave me the tuxmac and made
reading noises.
On Wednesday, September 8, 2004, at 09:18 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Wednesday, September 8, 2004, at 05:18 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Please try again with todays floppies,
and if it doesn't fix the problem, we need to investigate what
driver is
missing or something.
I'll try the new floppies tonight
On Thursday, September 9, 2004, at 12:45 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Wednesday, September 8, 2004, at 09:18 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Wednesday, September 8, 2004, at 05:18 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Please try again with todays floppies,
and if it doesn't fix the problem, we need to investigate what
On Saturday, September 11, 2004, at 07:11 AM, Russell Hires wrote:
P.S. jokingWhen are you finally going to start work on the
manual?/joking
All joking aside... That is an important task! But I kinda figured it
was less important than getting the software working at all on
oldworld
hardware,
On Thursday, September 9, 2004, at 01:23 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:45:29PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Ummm... The contents of
http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy-2.4/
haven't changed in the last few days. Is the build process stalled
Then it's probably not a hardware problem.
On Sunday, September 12, 2004, at 06:00 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 05:10:53AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote:
On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 03:06, Sven Luther wrote:
Here is the error in my log :
powerpc/netboot/2.4/vmlinuz-chrp.initrd
Package: installation-reports
powerpc BootX 20040911 businesscard OldWorld PowerMac
See Note 2
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the
image
Index of /pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/current
Name Last
Package: installation-reports
powerpc BootX 20040911 businesscard OldWorld PowerMac
See note 3
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the
image
Index of /pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/current
Name Last
Package: installation-reports
powerpc BootX 20040911 businesscard OldWorld PowerMac
See Note 1 below...
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the
image
Index of /pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/current
Name
Package: installation-reports
powerpc BootX 20040911 businesscard OldWorld PowerMac
see note 5
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the
image
Index of /pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/current
Name Last
Package: installation-reports
powerpc BootX 20040911 businesscard OldWorld PowerMac
See note 4
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the
image
Index of /pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/current
Name Last
Package: installation-reports
powerpc BootX 20040911 businesscard OldWorld PowerMac
see note 6
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the
image
Index of /pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/current
Name Last
Package: installation-reports
powerpc BootX 20040911 businesscard OldWorld PowerMac
See note 7
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the
image
Index of /pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/current
Name Last
PROTECTED]:~$
Enjoy!
Rick
On Monday, September 13, 2004, at 06:36 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 12:45:00AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Note 1:
This machine has a SCSI Zip drive is on the apple
mesh scsi controller. Before the discover disks
phase, I had to go
Thanks!
I await the fix with baited breath... (Like the cat beside the
mouse hole. -8)
Enjoy!
Rick
On Monday, September 13, 2004, at 07:49 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
reassign 271419 hw-detect
tags 271419 pending
thanks
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 07:15:17AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
The following
On Friday, September 10, 2004, at 05:04 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
The ofonlyboot has not changed. It reads and inverts the colors
of the tuxmac, but never switches to text-mode screen from the
inverted color tuxmac.
The boot floppy reads and switches to the text screen then asks
for the root
Sven Luther wrote:
Oh, and btw, I'm just installing my oldworld 4400/200 mac with d-i and the
daily built 2.4-floppy images (with root.img and root-2.img) and it seems to
work fine - right now. I'll keep you informed in another mail.
BTW, as of tomorrows build, the 2.6 images should
On Friday, September 17, 2004, at 01:00 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 09:42:09AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote:
[Lots of stuff about what's where in a beige G3 ...]
Bottom line, Sven, what pieces of information about the G3 do you
need from me?
Enjoy!
Rick
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On Friday, September 17, 2004, at 03:55 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 02:31:09AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Meanwhile, back at the 2.4 ranch...
The 2.4 boot floppy read, switched to text mode, asked for root,
which read, asked for language (English), then gave me a blue
screen
On Friday, September 17, 2004, at 03:12 PM, Joey Hess wrote:
Russell Hires wrote:
I'm just poking around on my G3/266 and I'm noticing that I don't
have a
/dev/modem, or any tty that links to it. Does the d-i create such a
device only if you say that you want to install via ppp? This
could be a
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 09:55:17AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
Definitively a bug in discover, could you fill a bug report
against discover1
with your lspci and lspci -n output ?
You won't get much help out of lspci. These are not PCI devices.
The macio
chip shows up as one huge PCI device, and
Package: installation-reports
I tried the PowerMac install floppy set from the 18th
Index of /~luther/d-i/images/2004-09-18/powerpc/floppy-2.4
NameLast modified Size Description
Package: installation-reports
In addition to the already noted problems with 2.4 PowerPC boot
floppies, I have two requests for modules to be included on the
root or root-2:
1) The change installation priority menu item should be available
*very* early in the install process. Best would be
Package: installation-reports
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Debian-installer-version: Fill in date and from where you got the
image
Index of /pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/current
Name Last modified Size
Description
I forgot to add:
Note 5:
Several times during the installation, I got an error message
telling me that some modules were not loaded because they could not
be found:
ide-mod, ide-probe-mod, ide-detect, ide-generic
Note 6:
I installed the same netinst CD on my beige G3 tower, using
BootX
On Thursday, September 23, 2004, at 11:02 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 05:05:58PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Package: installation-reports
In addition to the already noted problems with 2.4 PowerPC boot
floppies, I have two requests for modules to be included on the
root or root-2
On Thursday, September 23, 2004, at 06:13 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
I understand the size constraints. But isn't that the reason why
we added the root-2 floppy? Would adding hfs and/or hfsplus kick
us over the edge into root-3 land?
We could indeed add it to root-2, but i would prefer to get the
On Thursday, September 23, 2004, at 06:45 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 06:30:48PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Thursday, September 23, 2004, at 06:13 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
I understand the size constraints. But isn't that the reason why
we added the root-2 floppy? Would adding
On Thursday, September 23, 2004, at 06:13 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
I wrote:
I understand the size constraints. But isn't that the reason why
we added the root-2 floppy? Would adding hfs and/or hfsplus kick
us over the edge into root-3 land?
We could indeed add it to root-2, but i would prefer to
On Friday, September 24, 2004, at 09:17 AM, Gregory Seidman wrote:
In fact, I can attest to using an ordinary Mac printer cable between my
Oldworld Mac running Linux and my dual G4 with a Keyspan adapter and
running MacOS X. I use minicom on the Mac and have set up quik,
not BootX,
to allow me to
On Saturday, September 25, 2004, at 04:13 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 01:50:34AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
ROOT-2) The root-2 floppy is a bunch of udebs for all the
components that wouldn't fit on root. [This is a good design,
but it requires that root have everything needed
On Saturday, September 25, 2004, at 04:49 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
Bringing things back into sync with other architectures is worth it on
its own, and reducing the number of floppies required for an
installation was one of the original goals of d-i. After my changes,
there's *loads* of room left
Hi Duane,
Did you install a 2.6 or 2.4 kernel? The 2.6 kernel requires an
initial ramdisk. The 2.4 kernel (usually) does not.
The kernel installer leaves a kernel and a tailored initrd in the
/boot partition. You need to copy them into the appropriate places
inside the MacOS System folder
On Sunday, September 26, 2004, at 08:34 AM, Duane Cottle wrote:
I'm going to start another thread concerning the fact that my scsi
hard drive wasn't detected during the entire installation.
You probably have a mesh SCSI controller. Almost all OldWorld
Apple machines had them.
Early on in the
On Oct 15, 2004, at 11:16 AM, Duane Cottle wrote:
Hi all,
Sorry if this is the wrong list for this...
I have been testing daily sarge floppy install images from
http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/
for a few weeks on OldWorld Macs.
That is, until October 8. Since then,
Reset (zap) the PRAM. Turn the power off, then turn it on with the
Command-Option-P-R keys (all of them) held down. Hold the keys
down til it bongs a couple of times, then release and it should
boot normally from floppy.
Rick
On Sunday, June 13, 2004, at 05:51 AM, matt-land.com wrote:
On
powerpc
===
In unstable, 2.4 and 2.6 both work fine on newworld pmac. 2.4 oldworld
pmac is unbootable, but then again it always has been.
It is reasonable to move for a 2.6 powerpc kernel for sarge, for all
currently supported architectures, the support for those is
better, and
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/20040707/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso
uname -a: didn't get far enough to get this...
Date: 11 PM EDT July 9, 2004
Method: How did you install? What did you boot
Joey Hess wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
Last night I tried installing both 2.4 and 2.6 on my OldWorld Beige G3.
(using the sarge netinst daily CD from 2004/07/07) Neither worked, but
for different reasons.
I've sent installation reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but they
haven't yet shown
Rick Thomas wrote:
Joey Hess wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
Last night I tried installing both 2.4 and 2.6 on my OldWorld Beige G3.
(using the sarge netinst daily CD from 2004/07/07) Neither worked, but
for different reasons.
I've sent installation reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/20040708/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso
uname -a: didn't get far enough to get this...
Date: early AM EDT Saturday, July 10, 2004
Method: How did you install? What
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/20040708/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso
uname -a: Linux debian 2.4.25-powerpc #1 mer avr 14 15:38:38 CEST 2004
ppc GNU/Linux
Date: 11 PM EDT July 9, 2004
Method: How
On Saturday, July 10, 2004, at 07:33 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 03:46:29AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Everything went like clockwork except that it tried to install the
quik bootloader. IT's not supposed to do that for OldWorld
machines, is it? This is a beige G3 minitower
There are three (seemingly) different sets of daily ISOs at
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/20040710/
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-
i/powerpc/20040710/
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/powerpc/20040710/
Can anybody explain
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/20040711/sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso
uname -a: didn't get far enough to get this...
Date: early AM EDT Saturday, July 12, 2004
Method: How did you install?
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/20040711/sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso
uname -a: didn't get far enough to get this...
Date: early AM EDT Saturday, July 12, 2004
Method: How did you install?
Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:45:38AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote:
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 11:07, Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 10:55:36AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote:
Last night I downloaded and installed on my test-machine [beige G3
mini-tower (OldWorld)]
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:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
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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Hash: SHA1
Sorry,
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
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
(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
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
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
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
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
On Tuesday, March 30, 2004, at 10:47 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 04:01:49PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:
Scripsit Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 10:56:21PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:
Google macintosh boot block turns up official Apple information
Hi Simon,
Can you give a blow-by-blow installation procedure for installing debian
on oldworld Macs without BootX? I've done it for woody with BootX -- I
haven't figured out how to do woody without BootX. Unfortunately, sarge
has completely eluded me so far -- with or without BootX.
Thanks!
Sven Luther wrote:
I would also vote for : ESC abort current action if possible and drop
back in the main menu (at possibly a lower priority). If abortion is not
possible, you simply do the drop back at the earliest possible
convenience.
Sorry, was not talking about the help
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
Date: daily for powerpc for March 30, 2004.
Image from:
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/powerpc/20040330/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso
uname -a:
Linux debian 2.4.25-powerpc #1 ven mar
Sven Luther wrote:
Another solution would be for base-installer to install the -powerpc
kernel on your box too, since the main reason to use the -powerpc-small
kernel is so that it will fit on a floppy with miboot.
Would it be possible to restrict use of -powerpc-small kernel to just
On Thursday, April 1, 2004, at 05:57 PM, Holger Levsen wrote:
another mail, same topic:
Is there support for setting open firmware values in
debian-installer at
the
moment ?
Not yet, but you are welcome to provide patches.
We'll see, I will try to setup a d-i build this weekend or next
week
Package: boot-floppy
Severity: normal
Subject: boot-floppy: no way to do expert mode boot from floppy on
OldWorld PowerMac (at least)
On OldWorld PowerPC Macintoshes there is no way for a user to do
an expert mode boot starting from the boot floppys.
I suppose theoretically that one can do
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Subject: installation-reports: OldWorld PowerMac install (sarge)
dies trying to install bootloader
On OldWorld PowerPC Macs the yaboot bootloader doesn't work.
Without resorting to expert mode (DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium or better)
there is no way to
On Monday, April 5, 2004, at 07:12 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 04:29:14PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Subject: installation-reports: OldWorld PowerMac install (sarge)
dies trying to install bootloader
The installer should automatically recognize the OldWorld
subarchitecture
Frans Pop wrote:
Hello Rick,
Are you still planning to work on the manual for Macs?
If so, could you take a look at the text below, snip
Yes I am. I got side-tracked for a while in testing d-i on old-world Macs.
Thanks for the words. I'll take a look at it this weekend.
Enjoy!
Rick
I just had an interesting conversation with an Apple developer
(Apple employee) regarding the legal status of the boot sector for
oldworld Macs.
He pointed out that Darwin runs (and boots) on (at least) the beige
G3, and that's oldworld. I don't know anything about Darwin except
that it's
Malte,
Errors like that are usually symptomatic of a dirty/dusty floppy drive.
In particular, if the boot floppy is ejected, it means that the
firmware got an error trying to read it, or couldn't find the magic
numbers in the magic places that it was expecting from a real-live
Macintosh boot
Hi!
See comments interleaved below...
Rick
Malte Cornils wrote:
Hi Rick,
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 01:37:21AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Errors like that are usually symptomatic of a dirty/dusty floppy drive.
In particular, if the boot floppy is ejected, it means that the
firmware
Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 01:37:21AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
Malte,
Rick, does this mean that the daily build floppies work for you now ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
Yes. It reads all the floppies and launches d-i as expected.
I still have problems with d-i once
Frans Pop wrote:
On Friday 09 April 2004 20:40, you wrote:
Booting off of floppy, there is no way to invoke ...PRIORITY=medium
mode. It just does the default.
Are you sure?
You have to enter 'linux DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium'
Frans
This is OldWorld PowerMac.
Booting off of floppy
On Sunday, April 11, 2004, at 01:56 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Ok.
Now wee need to see why this happens. It seems that nobody was able to
make it work with the boot floppies built by me, is that exact ?
Only by
those built by Jeremie. We need to find out why. Jeremie, did you
modify
the kernel
Sven Luther wrote:
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 12:28:11AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
tags 243166 moreinfo help
thanks
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 03:52:44PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
A .udeb package would allow to eject the cdrom during the install. Would
be particularly usefull
Holger Levsen wrote:
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I would like to start hacking a quik-installer (for oldworld powerpc) now, but
I am a little unsure how to test it on my own: Since my only oldworld system
to develop with is a pmac4400 at the moment I have to boot if from floppies.
Then I'll usually insert the
Sven Luther wrote:
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Still, i wonder were the right place would be for this .udeb :
1) in the cdrom iinitrd to have access to it as soon as possible ?
(it doesn't seem to appear though in the first stage of
debian-installer's main menu, don't know why though).
2) have
I'll give it a try this evening (US/Eastern time zone)
Enjoy!
Rick
Matt Kraai wrote:
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 04:04:13AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote:
1) It automatically ejected the boot floppy when asking for the root
floppy. Thanks for that, whoever put that patch in. However, when
On Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at 01:47 AM, Joey Hess wrote:
Note that if you hit the go back button at the hostname question,
you'll
get to the main menu, and hitting enter will let you choose how to
configure it.
Thanks! That solves my problem.
However, we still need to get some way to set the
On Feb 7, 2008, at 8:24 PM, dann frazier wrote:
Let me try and reiterate some points of your proposal to make sure I
understand. The only install media for etchnhalf will be netinst
cds. These cds will be limited to i386, amd64, and other archs for
which a need is demonstrated.
It sounds good
On Aug 14, 2008, at 4:50 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
We have to set FSCKFIX=yes in /etc/default/rcS on machines that don't
have any I/O devices to follow the boot process, otherwise fsck might
prompt the user to press a key and this is not possible.
This is mostly needed on NAS devices. They
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