On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 04:16:47PM -0600, Jeremiah Merkl wrote: > ...wow...that was slick. I did a network install, and only had one problem. > > Installed on a G3-all-in-one 233MHz, 96M ram, using BootX (will > switch to yaboot soon).
make sure you create a 800K Apple_Bootstrap type bootstrap partition as the first partition on the disk. > As it turns out, this machine (at least mine, I don't know about all > of them) is a little unique in that the internal HD is hdc, and the > CD is hda. wierd, its funny i have yet to see a powermac that has hdc used, on my blue G3 the cdrom is on secondary master but the device is hde, unlike intel where it would be hdc. what gives? > this wouldn't be a problem, except the base system that I pulled down > (base-2_2.tgz from 2.2.13-2000-05-04) is completely missing > /dev/hdc* and hdd. I thought it was funny that it had hda, hdb, and > hde, f, g and h, but no c or d. probably because most machines don't seem to use these devices.. you should be able to create them yourself... > So who gets the bug report? base, base-files, base-config, or what? not sure.. > I got around it by booting off the installer ramdisk again, jumping > to a shell, and then > mount /dev/hdc8 /target > chroot /target /bin/bash (didn't know if this was necessary for the > MAKEDEV script, but figured what the hell) > MAKEDEV hdc > > and I rebooted back into linux again. No probs, and am finishing the > rest of the install. > > As an aside, anyone know what happened to console-apt? I liked it a > whole lot more than aptitude. it got removed from potato for dubious release critical bugs :( you should be able to find the package in woody. (well maybe, woody on powerpc, and even i386 is rather broken at the moment) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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