Hi all, First, despite my problems below, thanks to those who have posted their experiences getting Debian up on a Lombard... you've helped me get this far. 8-)
I'm having a heck of a time getting a reasonable Debian install on my Lombard G3/400. I have no trouble with the install (via NFS) up to the point of the first time dselect runs. I made sure to apt-get the current libc6 and bash during the install, and both installs ran fine. However, once I start grabbing packages things break. Specifically, there seems to be a specific package(s) and/or libraries in the default dselect install that causes the system to freeze, requiring a hard reset. There seems to be little noticable pattern to the lockups, except that it is frequent, occurs while an app is running (see below) and affects most apps. dselect, dpkg, apt-get (natch), and gcc all seem particularly susceptible to locking up (but are also the apps I'm trying to run, so take this with a grain of salt.) I've yet to get even _near_ a working X installation, much less messing around with server configuration, despite success stories to the contrary. I've tried different kernels to no avail: current "LinuxPPC Standard", vmlinux.lombard from the LinuxPPC site vs. the Debian 2.2.10 kernel (installed then copied the kernel over to the BootX folder). vmlinux.lombard is the only pre-built kernel I've found with working ethernet support. I've tried to get Paul Mackerra's stable kernel compiled with as few necessary packages installed as possible, as mentioned in a recent thread, but even when I get gcc installed, it locks up very early into make dep. I've yet to be able to build any kernel from source. I've been going around with this for a couple days now, and am at wits' end. Any ideas? Am I missing something obvious, or a critical bit of info about current bugs/install peculiarities? Thanks much, John Whitley
