On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 07:04:34PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > > >On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:48:43AM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > >> Hi, me again. > >> > >>I won't have a network connection with kernels < 2.6.14 (I need that to > >>get sungem support for my PHY), so I'm trying to install from the weekly > >>d-i binary CD 1. This seems to go ok until it gets to installing > >>yaboot, then it fails with the following messages (sorry about the long > >>lines) > > > >Known problem, use the businesscard or a later businesscard iso. I think it > >was fixed on tuesday, but if you could use today's daily build, this would > >be > >fine. Well, not sure it this is the same problem as on 32bit powrrmac. > > > > Umm, I don't seem to be able to use the businesscard in the absence of > a working network connection (it needs to contact a mirror to get a > release file, and chrooting to the installed fs to rerun yabootconfig > and ybin just gave the same error and didn't like boot=hd:). That > doesn't seem worthy of an installation report!
You could try with firewire networking ? > >In any case, the right way to handle this is not to post on debian-powerpc, > >but file an installation report at : > > > > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template > > Done for the previous testing powerpc binary 1 CD (primarily for > yaboot). > > >Another thing that i would really like you testing, since you are > >installing > >anyway, is the graphical installer, which had success reports on pegasos > >and > >32bit newworld, but not on 64bit machines : > > > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/gtkdi/images/daily/powerpc64/gtk-miniiso64/mini.iso > > > >And report back with a separate installation template. > > Done. (didn't manage to start X, hardware details are in the report) Mmm, no X should be used, but i guess this means you didn't get the language question, right ? > Meanwhile, I see that the weekly testing isos have been uppdated today. > Will try that. post tuesday netinst should be ok. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]