After trying to figure out how to netboot the sarge installer on my blue and white G3, I had to give up and use the woody installer instead.
The problems I ran into: 1) The install document says to use yaboot to boot the kernel. There's no "yaboot" or yaboot.conf files in the installer directory[1] for sarge. I ended up next trying to use yaboot from woody's installer dir to boot. 2) There's a bunch of kernel+initrd images which don't boot (vmlinuz-*.initrd), none of which are bootable on my blue&white. Openfirmware pukes on the images. 3) There's a generic "vmlinux", which actually loads via yaboot, but yaboot can't load the initrd.gz. 4) The 2.4 netboot images, and 2.4 netboot-minimal images have the same problems. I wouldn't be suprised to see these problems on a testing release, but I'm quite suprised that the *stable* release doesn't come with a working netbootable installer, when the previous version did (and it worked just fine!). [1] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/netboot/ Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCAC --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/ The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
