I'm having troubles getting Debian PowerPC onto my PowerBook G4 (TiBook III).
I downloaded the debian-31r1a-powerpc-netinst.iso image from cdimage.debian.org, and burned it with Disk Utility in Mac OS X (Tiger). The problem is that when booting, the installer complains that the CD cannot be read. This seems to be whilst trying read files from pool/main/p/parted. I thought the iso image was corrupted, so I tried burning another image, downloaded from a mirror. Again, the same problem. So then I tried the full (non-netinst) official testing debian-testing-powerpc-binary-1.iso, from cdimage.debian.org. This time, the installer fails with a different message: "No kernel modules were found. This probably is due to a mismatch between a kernel used by this version of the installer and the kernel version available in the archive. If you're installing from a mirror, you can work around this problem by choosing to install a different version of Debian. This install will probably fail to work if you continue without kernel modules. Continue to install without loading kernel modules?" What is the best thing to do? Can somebody confirm whether there is something strange with the PowerPC netinst images? Is it just me? -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but differentÂ…
