tried installing last night of daily build debian-testing-powerpc-net.iso
it was probably not a good idea, definitely did not work here (pismo w/g4 upgrade). installation report filed. not sure what to do. could do what i did before which is install sarge and upgrade. or wait and try again when testing netinst is better. brian --- brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, maybe it just died in its sleep, but maybe not. > > i put it in sleep a few days ago and forgot, > thought > i had shut it down (sometimes i don't see a > blinking power led) > so i hit the power-startup key... > > no disk ! none of my mac os or linix utils could > see the hard > drive. to mac it was invisible, however booting the > debian > installer, i just got some very brief message about > the > disk not responding and it turning the bus off. > > lucky i had a (blank) disk on hand and some half > way recent mac > backups (including bunch of fink stuff ) -- > > unlucky i had just gotten to backing up my sarge, > had not > suspected this one to go. glad i didn't put this > disk > in my older box tho. > > probably just my problem, but i thought i should > check > anyway -- or caution. i hadn't even backed up my > personal > files here, never mind my system, i am going to > have to say > its cost me a month or two. luckily i had not been > using it > much because of short on space and an old battery. > > by the way my trick for backing up should i tell, > why not. > > in the debian installer under manual partitioning > there is > an option to copy. you can go in a shell and use > parted, but > that is sort of the hard way. it took me longer to > get to > the partitioning step than to do the copy/ restore > - > that is it is pretty fast there in the installer > raw copy. > > brian > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls > to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2ยข/min or less. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
