On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 08:25:38PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 08:46:46PM +0100, Niklaus Giger wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have the following four systems where I could test the patches. > > Ok, that would be great, > > > PowerBook Alu 1 GHz 15" > > PowerBook Pismo G3 400 Mhz > > PowerMac G3 blue/white > > Not sure if the prismo is already a newworld, i guess it is. > > > Pegasos I (Here I never managed to install a stock Debian kernel, I have a > > custom compiled kernel based on the Gentoo 2.6.8-pegasos-r2, then used a > > chroot to install a minimal Debian system and managed to install Debian on > > it. But the way was quite complicated). When I tried 10 days ago to boot > > your > > kernel from > > http://people.debian.org/%7Eluther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/cdrom-minimal/2.4/vmlinuz-chrp.initrd > > I was unable to boot into it. > > Don't worry, the pegasos 1 will not run yaboot without an OF upgrade anyway. > > But you can look at the special pegasos 1 netinst iso at : > > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/pegasos/sarge-pegasos1-netinst-2004.10.25.iso > > And follow the README there. > > > What are the steps which you would like to test? E.g. on each system I have > > one spare partition but I cannot afford to format the whole disk. I have > > however a external FireWire-HD which I could wipe out each time. > > Did you apply the patch for an external firewire > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/11/msg00056.html ? > > no, don't think so, is this a linux or yaboot patch ? > > > Is it sufficient to just install the minimal Debian system? > > No, actually i am only interested in yaboot booting, not real installs the > following test scenarios are possible : > > burn http://people.debian.org/~luther/yaboot/monolithic/mini.iso
Obviously you have to finish for the mini-iso to upload, should be done in 10 minutes. The mini.iso is aroudn 14MB big. Friendly, Sven Luther
