Dan Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The easiest way will be if he has a free partition. Untar the base > tarball which is probably lying in incoming somewhere onto that > partition, set it as root (Use nvsetenv boot-file 'whereverkernelis > root=/dev/sdxx'). Then mount the partition with the .debs, or fetch > them by hand - is ftp in the tarball? Should be fairly clean. Kinda.
I tried this and *almost* got it to work. I took the drive that had RedHat and I killed its swap partition (about 127MB). I untarred the base-powerpc.tar.gz to that partition and played with the boot junk until I finally got it so that it would boot the Debian partition. (It took me quite a while to realize that you didn't have to re-run quik after modifying /etc/quik.conf, and that if you did, you usually left the system unbootable. This meant rebooting to MacOS and re-running quik to fix it.) Anyway, it gets to the VFS mount stage, output stops, the drive grinds for a little while, a couple of "route forgot to specify netmask" messages pop up, and then it hangs. Though it works fine with the RedHat partition. I was wondering if the Debian stuff might be redirecting output to the serial port at that point. If so, then how do I undo it? Alternately, do you know offhand what the serial port params are? I tried using a Mac modem cable connected to a PC via a null-modem adapter, but didn't see anything. Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930
