Rick Thomas schrieb:
On Nov 13, 2005, at 4:01 PM, Christian Müller wrote:
- oops, thx for pointing out the driver disc, 'll try it in a minute
*smashing-head*
So... did it work? If so, which set of floppys did you finally
succeed with (where did you download them from?)
Sorry for the late reply - it WORKS =)
Model: Apple Macintosh Beige G3revII w/ OF 2.4f
Images:
http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/2005-10-31/powerpc/floppy/
(later builds should work as well, I suppose)
tiny :) Step-By-Step:
* use dd or rawwrite to put boot.img and root.img onto floppies
* using a third floppy choose either cd-drivers.img or net-drivers.img
depending on how you want to proceed in installing debian (cd-wise
you'll need to have debian install cd set or debian netinstall cd;
net-wise, via cd-drivers.img and netinstall cd or directly via
net-drivers.img you'll setup your network and install from the internet;
details in the relevant debian installer guides)
* put the boot-floppy into the powermac, cross fingers and hope that it
will load all of it (if it refuses to boot the floppy at all, OF
environment might be messed up, use Strg+Option+Power for reboot and
then Alt+Option+P+R on boot for a quick way to restore default nvram
settings; if it does not load all of the floppy and a red X shows up
above tux chances are that the picky floppy drive had a read error and
gave up early - try a second time, use other floppies, verify the
floppies, if nothing helps clean the floppy drive as a last resort)
* after the boot-floppy loaded it'll ask you for the root floppy - you
have to manually eject the boot floppy, since the eject code is either
not there or broken in the kernel used - use a bent paper clip and
carefully enter the tip straight into the tiny hole beneath the floppy drive
* if all goes well the debian installer greets you, but you can't do
much yet (try Alt+F2 to get to a console without leaving the installer -
on my box I saw hda and hdc in the dmesg output, but the proper drivers
seemed to be missing, as there were no devfs entries for the cdrom or hd)
* repeat the procedure with manually ejecting the floppy and put
cd-drivers floppy in it - choose load drivers from floppy in the debian
installer menu - it is now going to fetch some udeb packages with kernel
modules onto the ramdisk and other packages)
* I didn't know which ide chipset I had, if you don't have a pci ata
controller you can probably make do with ide-floppy and ide-cd, but in
my case it did not hurt to load all modules.
* optional: switch to the second console (Alt+F2) and do find /dev/ide
at the busybox prompt - you should now have device entries for the disks
and partitions
* optional: find it funny that you can now, that you'll probably don't
need it anymore, do eject /dev/fd/0 to eject a floppy (the eject.udeb
was loaded with the cd-drivers floppy)
* back in the debian installer main menu you now have new options
available for mounting the cd and optionally load modules that are still
needed from there
* the debian installer guide takes me from here
Maybe that helps someone,
to sad, that the miboot stuff can not legally get into the debian
releases (yet?)
Christian
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