Hello all, I've been trying to install Debian onto my G5. I'd like to report my attempts. How should i go about doing that.
In general i tried daily/powerpc/20040627/ sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso. install-power4 leads to a problem with the floppy. Using expert-power4 i can circumvent it. However the fans still rev up. I tried to modprobe therm_pm72. But even after mounting the cd i couldn't find the module. Reading the kernel Changelogs i see that BenH applied a fix to the 2.6 kernel. So i tried expert-power4-2.6. This leads to a hang at: Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled. For some reason i thought this was due to my machine being a dual processor. I tried testing/sid_d-i/powerpc/20040627/ sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso install-power4-2.6 leads to a hang when it asks for which language i want to use. I think i've read this before as a keyboard problem. install-power4 leads to the floppy problem. I just want to add that if someone can help be tackle this fan problem, i'd be glad to perform additional testing. :) Brian http://www.derocher.org
