Thanks Ananda,
Messed up the links there and posted the same one twice, the second one should
be:
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.powerpc/ch05s01.html#install-drive
Yes, I could probably do this, though I'm fairly new to Linux and never
done a kernel compile. But I have two running systems on my G5 -- Mac
OSX (with full development setup) and Ubuntu. I'm sure I could do it
under Ubuntu since it's based on Debian anyway. But as I'm on holidays
I don't want to take a lot of time -- no need for you to bother. This
isn't a high priority thing for me -- if I decide I want to do it badly
enough, I'm sure I can figure out how to do it.
Anyway, in the meantime installer is broken, so I did need to notify
people of this.
Cheers, Mike.
Ananda
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 03:05:48 +0000
Ananda Samaddar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've never done this but if you're using an Open firmware based machine can you
not compile your own kernel and boot off it to install?
Here are the relevant sections of the Etch install manual
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.powerpc/ch04s05.html#files-newworld
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.powerpc/ch04s05.html#files-newworld
According to these instructions if you compile a custom vmlinux image and
initrd img and copy these over along with other neccessary files you should be
able to boot the installer and have the ethernet support you require.
Obviously you can compile the kernel on another PPC machine. I'd offer to do
it for you if you don't have access to such a machine, but I only have a G3
700MHz and it would take 1 1/2 to 2 hours! If all else fails let me know and I
will do so.
Ananda
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:23:11 +0930
Mike Hore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi folks,
After some private email, I suspect the right driver has simply been
omitted from the netinstall daily build, so I've submitted a bug report.
Has anyone else hit this problem, or found a way around it? I get as
far as the Ethernet detection, which fails. I'm presented with a couple
of options for drivers, but none work. So I can't proceed beyond this
point, since I obviously need a network for a netinstall.
Cheers, Mike.
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