Chris, The installer seemed to freeze when that particular menu came up. I say that because when I tried the installer again, it would not even let me select the next item and proceed when I got to that screen.
I did try switching consoles, but even that did not seem to work (is it still the apple-F[1-6] combination to rotate through the different text consoles ?) And one final question - what args would I give to BootX to enable debugging ? I will try those files again tomorrow. They might have been corrupted in being downloaded and transferred between different machines ... cheers vinai On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 03:30:43PM -0700, vinai wrote: > > > I look at the manual at: > > > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-boot-drive-files > > > > section 4.4.1. So I grabbed the ramdisk.gz (I already had a working > > kernel/BootX combo and besides, the "linux.bin" from the Debian site > > did not seem to work) and tried to run the installer that way. The > > installer said it was put together by Adam Di Carlo and was dated May > > 16, 2002. Right at the point where the it was going to partition the > > hard disk, the installer would appear to freeze. Even when I re-tried > > (to skip that stage) it would still lock up. > > I just used them for a 9500, so I don't think they're broken. Does it > freeze in the menu, after selecting the Partition menu item, after > displaying the quik warning box, or after starting fdisk? > > Can you even switch to console 3 to see if there are any error > messages? It might help to add the debug boot argument to get more > messages.
