On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:14:09AM +0100, Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister wrote: > Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 20:49 schrieb Sven Luther: > > > you somehow don't get prep-installer, please fill a bug report. > > I'm considering that, but first I want to make sure that the major problem is > not my lack of understanding basic ppc or OF concepts (since 1988, this is my > first step away from the x86 platform).
Well, the proper way to have such discussions is through a bug report. If it doesn't work out of hand, it is a d-i bug, independent of your famililarity with ppc or not. D-i should work out of the box independently of the architecture. > > this sounds like the older sarge installer images, not latest etch. > > According to my filesystem info, I downloaded this from the debian site on > December 20th. But where did you download it from ? Can you give the exact URL ? > > no, you need the mkvmlinuz produced vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-prep. It should indeed > > be in /boot. > > It is present under /boot. /boot/vmlinux ist linked to it under /boot. Notice tha slightly confusing difference between the vmlinu*X* which are the plain elf linux kernels and the vmlinu*Z* which are the zImage kernels, which include both the ramdisk and the prep boot-wrapper. > > > Is there a chance that this will be fixed? I did not follow the > > > development, but this platform seems to be discontinued. > > > > Well, given the d-i situation, i don't know, > > What I had in mind is the machine with the 604 CPU, not debian ppc. I bought > the machine 2nd hand in 2002 for 25 Euros... :-) It was part of a huge > government network the admins never got running. I believe it was > manufactured around 1999. Indeed, i have one model of exactly the same machine here. The ancienty of the boxes is hardly a problem, d-i doesn't currently support any still-shipping powerpc boxes anyway, so ... Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
