I tried the new-powermac installer again, and found it can't mount hfs disks. I wonder if busybox code is incompatible with the 2.4 kernel on this, or maybe it was because I was trying an ext3 install.
I tried hmount from another partition, but it didn't work because of the library reduction. That made me think about the recent suggestions for a small CD-ROM iso with the installer system on it, and how that would free us from the need to reduce libraries so drastically etc. I really think debian-installer should start out with a no-floppy assumption, just refer people back to (woody) boot-floppies if they want to try to install from floppies. If there was no need for library reduction, that would make the installer much more flexible for people converting from other distributions, or just patching things together like I was trying to do. Not to mention speeding the build process. I'm sure a bigger-than-floppy-size root.bin could be booted straight from the hard disk on powermacs; so you wouldn't really even need to shoehorn stuff into an iso. Download and go. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
