On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:31:16AM -0400, K Clark wrote: > > first caveat, this is my initial foray into mac hardware, w/exp. on i386 > w/linux. > > ibook2 brand spanking new. followed several online guides > > http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html > > http://www.xiph.org/~jack/ibook/instnotes.html > > and have os9 and osx installed already. have booted into the debian installer > through OpenFirmware after copying linux.bin, yaboot, yaboot.conf and > root.bin to osx's root directory, then starting with a boot hd:9,\yaboot or > some other apple magic... > > so the installer starts and i get the kernel and driver modules off the net > at > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/...
You want new-powermac, not powermac. > > when it comes time to install the base system, i'm having much trouble. i > have no iso cdrom. i've been trying to do this over the network, which is > working. i can ping from another box the laptop, and in tty2 i can ping my > router from the ibook. and the installer went and dloaded the drivers.tgz > from the above URL... > > the error i receive is: > > Release Check Failed: > > The Server was unavailable or contained no Release file. This may be a bug which is even newer than your iBook. I just filed a similar (but not identical) report an hour ago. > is the installer expecting a 'release' file? i have seen the URL pointers for > potato having a different makeup than what i see available for woody. Yes. What about a different mirror? > > question? if i dload and burn an iso for my powerbook, which one should i > get? what arthritic ninja hand move do i have to do to boot from the cd? the > open-apple+option+O+F? if so, then when in OF, what do i type to get to the > cd? If it was me, assuming you have a Linux machine to download with, I'd use cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/powerpc-specials/mini-iso.sh to download and create a netinst iso image. (But I'm biased.) No really, the other images available for download are out of date and/or buggy. Some rather critical bugs have just been fixed and new images aren't available yet. Oh, and one bug won't be until woody is released: When you boot into your new system and base-config runs, you need to change your /etc/apt/sources.list from stable to woody, apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade before downloading any more packages. You could actually change to vc2 at base-config's first dialog and do this. Skip base-config's siren call of tasksel and dselect, it will install potato packages unless you have changed sources.list. > I hope someone's still awake, or waking up... Just going to bed, so good luck... -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
