Hi, A huge lot of thanks to you and all those who helped me out of this. Everything is working fine now so you might as well add Workgroup Server 8550/200 to the Debian Potato success list.
I have been able to make a swap and var partition and machine is rebooting fine (an unhealthy way to test a machine, really). After installation and booting from hard disk step (to get a premade quik.conf) I followed Ethan's words to the core. I got the 'ofpath' script and ran it: ./ofpath /dev/sda then i did chroot /target nvsetenv boot-device /bandit/gc/mesh/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0 then I ran quik (not working without this step): quik -v -f -C /etc/quik.conf with image pointing to actual kernel. then exit and reboot At startup first time I get the starting music twice, thereafter only once. It takes a little while to start up after the music (about 5 to 10 sec) (that's how I learnt to be patient to achieve a good thing) and eventually darkness disappears and the penguin shows the light. It's working great and right now I'm struggling with X configuration. Mouse is not working. My mouse fits into the keyboard and has 4 pins. XF86Config has entries BusMouse and /dev/adbmouse . X reports that it is providing value of 3 button mouse. below the single button mouse is written "Apple Desktop Bus Mouse II, family No M2706". XF86Setup or xf86config do not seem to be on my system (Probably I have to build the second CD iso image). i'm thinking of giving 'alien' a try (last time I used it I had a nightmare, but this is a fresh system ;-) i'll wake up early tomorrow (after a few hours) and give the next Mac a try. That one's a 8600 which should also work. I cannot thank you enough for your help. I'm not a seasoned Debian user but I'm trying to migrate from RedHat/SuSE to Debian/GNU/Slackware and this is the first time I'm on a Debian list. Thank you very much for your support. i think I'm beginning to understand what makes Debian the best. Thanking you, indraneel On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > you want to use > > /bandit/gc/mesh/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2 > > or the more common method: > > /bandit/gc/mesh/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0 > > the partition 0 trick makes OF load the boot block from the partition > marked bootable, which is your root partition, so it really should not > make any difference > > one other thing, you will probably need to use at least the final > 2.2.17 kernel (from ftp.kernel.org) the debian kernels are older and > may not work. > > also, make sure in your quik.conf that your image= line points to a > real kernel and not a symlink, for some reason quik does not work > reliably with symlinks. > > -- > Ethan Benson > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ > /************************************************************************. # Indraneel Majumdar ¡ E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Bioinformatics Unit (EMBNET node), ¡ URL: http://scorpius.iwarp.com # # Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, # # Hyderabad, India - 500076 # `************************************************************************/
