Good question, Amos.
You should begin with listing the files:
ls -al /mnt2
What do you get? Usually there are links vmlinux and initrd.img
pointing at vmlinux-2.6.x.x.x and initrd.img-2.6.x.x.x, respectively.
They should come from a package called linux-image-2.6 or something
similar. You can
Risto,
Thanks for the continued support. I continued through the
installation to the partitions portions, and all of the partitions
were as I thought - sda6 is the hfsplus partition where OS 9 is
loaded. I then continued all the way through the installation to the
point where I was
Hmm... looks like /dev/sda does not exist, yet. But somewhere under
the /dev tree there are probably the right entries. Perhaps /dev/scsi
or /dev/bus or /dev/disk something.
You could just try to let the installation process continue a bit
further. When it's about to start the partitioning, the
Hi Amos,
The one thing you probably forgot, was to copy the vmlinux and
initrd.img images from /boot to Mac OS 'Linux Kernels' folder. Then
you will have to direct BootX to use them, as you did with the images
from the install CD.
Now you must try to re-start the installation and then suspend it
Risto,
Thanks much for your response. I followed your directions, but after
issuing this command: mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda6 /mnt1, I received
the following text: mount: Mounting /dev/sda6 on /mnt1 failed: No
such device.
I also made attempts with hfs and sda5, but received the same
I'm new to Linux/Debian, having used Macs at home and Windows at
work. I wanted to stretch my computer legs and attempt to learn Linux
by installing Debian on a PowerMac 8500/120 with 144 MB RAM and a 2 GB
hard drive and running OS 9.0. I started out with the debian-40r6-
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