Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage- testing/sarge_di/powerpc/20040922/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso uname -a: 2.6.8-powerpc Date: 22.9.2004 Method: Booted from HFS-Partition via BootX1.2.2
Machine: Apple OldWorld PowerMac 8600/250 Memory: 196MB Root Device: /dev/sda8 Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot worked: [E] Configure network HW: [E] Config network: [X] Detect CD: [E] Load installer modules: [X] Detect hard drives: [X] Partition hard drives: [X] Create file systems: [X] Mount partitions: [X] Install base system: [X] Install boot loader: [X] Reboot: [E] Comments/Problems: Initial Boot worked only with "No Video Driver" checked in BootX. Without it computer hangs with blank screen. The internal mace ethernet chip is not autodetected. CD-Rom Drive at internal SCSI-Mesh Controller are not detected automagically. I had to exit to shell and modprobe mesh. After that CD-Rom was detected, so I could install the Base System. Reboot does not work because the mesh-module is not in the standard-kernel, and without it you can't access the root-partition. I restartet the installation and wanted to copy the kernel installed in /target/boot but in the installer- shell i could not find nor the hfs-fs module, nor any ftp,scp,rcopy program to copy the files over the network. The kernel is too big to copy it on a floppy. So my proposal would be to keep the mesh-scsi controller inside the kernel, or at least to include the hfs-modules into the installation-ramdisk. This would save a lot of trouble for all oldworld installers. Anyhow thank you all for all the work you put inside the ppc-port !!! Mit freundlichen Grüßen Thomas Kempf -- Thomas Kempf Atelier Hueper im Bruehl 1, 89520 Heidenheim Fon: +49 7321 969845 Fax: +49 7321 969891
