On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 09:09:58PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote: > 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.)
Odd. > 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. Odder. There was nothing to see; it should not be using serial console for any reason. DAn
