On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:53:31PM -0500, Joel Schander wrote: > I'm attempting to install Debian 3.0r1 on a Umax SuperMac 603e/200. It > is OldWorld, so I made floppies of the boot disk (boot-floppy-hfs.img) > and root disk (root.bin). The former boots the box just fine, and the > second is ejected before starting the actually install. At this point, I > partitioned the drive as I wanted it but am not having much luck getting > beyond this point.
What does your partition map look like? > Attempting to Initialize and Activate Swap Partition resulted in the box > apparently sitting idle for about three minutes, then rebooting. This > occured a couple times, but I guess was eventually successful as I'm now > prompted to Initialize a Linux Partition. When I attempt to do this, > however, the box essentially does the same thing. It goes to a screen > that says the inode tables are written OK; then it goes to a step > "Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information" and appears > to sit idle for about three minutes prior to rebooting the box. I've > tried skipping to one of the later steps -- Mount a > Previously-Initialized Partition -- and can choose from the menu which > of the partitions I want to mount. I do so and am told I need to mount a > root partition, so I say OK and receive this error: "Mount Failed: > Invalid Argument". To see what is happening during the partition initialization, try it manually. After booting and configuring the keyboard, switch to console 2 (Opt-F2 or Cmd-F2). At the prompt, do mke2fs -v /dev/hda4 (if 4 is the one you want to initialize). It should give you some information about what's happening, if it's a segfault or what. For the swap partition, try mkswap /dev/hda5 > One thing that may be important but I'm not sure is that /dev/hda2 and > /dev/hda3 are both drivers of some sort. I've attempted deleting them as > the box will not have multiple OSes installed, but this results in an > error something like: "Sorry: can't delete a driver partition (yet!)". Driver partitions won't hurt anything. Don't know why it's giving that error message, though, maybe you have a partition map problem. -- "The way the Romans made sure their bridges worked is what we should do with software engineers. They put the designer under the bridge, and then they marched over it." -- Lawrence Bernstein, Discover, Feb 2003
