On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 04:39:45PM -0400, Colin Foran wrote: > Well ive been at this most of the day, still no dice. I've made another copy > of > the first Debian cd and tried to restart the base install. While I do get > fewer > errors, I still cant complete the process. > I have tried to copy the iso to hard disk, but that gets cut off even sooner > than using the installer. > I have had a bit of luck with just trying to "apt-get install ---", it seems > to > work with some things, but not with others. > I've been thinking about it, and i cant really imagine that this is a driver > problem. After asking around, all of the people ive talked to told me that > their > old world powermacs came with the old Matshita cdroms, so its not as though we > are dealing with an obscure piece of hardware. > I've checked the inside of the box, and my scsi chain is terminated correctly, > so I dont suspect Evil SCSI Voodoo (tm) to be the problem. > Any ideas? > and thanks to all those that are trying to help me out, I really appreciate it > -Cheers
Another idea along the same lines, trying to avoid the CD. I assume the downloaded iso file is on one of your mac partitions? How about 1. start the installer (or maybe your system will handle this) 2. create a 650MB partition which will simulate the CD, say /dev/hda10 3. mount the mac partition in console 2 4. dd directly from the iso file on the mac partition to /dev/hda10 5. Quit the installer, boot your regular system and mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda10 /cdrom -- *------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]
