Nearly two years ago now, I'd installed debian-ppc on a first generation tibook & ran that happily until this past winter, when I accidently dropped it and snapped the hinges holding the screen to the base. It still worked, but just had to be held up by a wall. But that's another story...
The deparment here must have felt some pity on me, for that was also the day I tore my LCL & ACL in my left knee. Eventually, they picked up a new gigahertz tibook for me & that is what I have now. I've really tried to give OS X a fair chance, but I just can't take it any more. I have OpenBSD on the machine, but it's just not the same as good ole' debian. So I went to use one of the mini net install isos today to load debian onto it, but I haven't gotten very far. On boot off the cd, I get the following error message before the "Welcome to yaboot" line: cd:2,/install/powermac/boot.msg: Unknown or corrupt filesystem If I boot with the install24 or install24-safe kernels, I get the same error and then return to the boot prompt. If I boot with the install kernel, it starts to take, flashes a mostly white screen & then dies. If I boot with "install video=ofonly", it starts to take, and stops on a mostly white screen with the following text: ... ok opening display /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ATY,Xia_B... ok copying OF device tree... done Calling quiesece... booting... _ I haven't seen anything in the archives about openbsd munging up my filesystem, but I suspect this is the cause. I don't have my openbsd cds with me at the moment, so I can't think of a way to dump my parition table to include in the message. I'd like to not have to wipe the hd & be able to keep openbsd. Is there any hope? (Please cc me on reply as I am not currently a list member) Thanks in advance, -Mark -- Mark T. Valites Unix Systems Analyst CIT - SUNY Geneseo >--))> >--))>
