Re: unsuccessful installation on oldworld powermac apple 6400/180

2004-10-27 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 01:44:06PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:33:45AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > As I've said before, if you can afford the disk space (big IDE > > disks are cheap) the boot loader that I sugge

Re: unsuccessful installation on oldworld powermac apple 6400/180

2004-10-27 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
Hi, On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:33:45AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > As I've said before, if you can afford the disk space (big IDE > disks are cheap) the boot loader that I suggest as being most > robust and flexible is MacOS with BootX. Ok, could you send me the MacOS installation CD? I don'

Installation report oldworld powermac apple 7300

2004-10-06 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
Hi, I used the images from http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/2004-10-06/powerpc/floppy-2.4/ to install an oldworld powermac (apple 7300 with 96 MB RAM and two scsi harddisks) I chose the dutch language during install. The network card was successfully detected

Re: Red X -- not quite gone yet...

2004-08-31 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:41:50PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Please try the (2.6) floppies at : > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/miboot/floppy-2.6-2004.08.31 boot.img only contains vmlinuz and doesn't boot, ofonlyboot.img starts loading a kernel and ends with the tux/red cross. > http://pe

Re: Red X -- not quite gone yet...

2004-08-31 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
Hi, On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:53:55AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Please try the (2.6) floppies at : > > > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/miboot/floppy-2.6-2004.08.31 Spitted out immediately, kernel is not loaded from floppy. If I mount the image, it only contains vmlinuz. > > As well as

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-26 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 08:24:31AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:41:28AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > > > I noticed that near the end, the script does an e2fsck of the > > "root.img" file. This seems to indicate that the image is > > completely hosed, and e2fsck res

Re: PowerPC Install

2004-08-25 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:11:49AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > o Using the miboot floppies from : > > 2.6 : http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy > (currently broken) > 2.4 : http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc-small/floppy Has anyone be

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-23 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 09:48:38AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:08:06PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > > The bad news is that not only the daily root.img is bad, also > > cd-drivers.img and net-drivers.img are corrupt; you can't even mount > >

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-20 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 06:30:57PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Can you check the root, net and cd floppies for 2.6.7 also ? Not really, these floppies are compressed rom filesystems and I can't read that on any of my computers, including a celeron with debian sarge installed using the debian in

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:08:06PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > Well, the daily root.bin turned out to contain an emtpty file system, so > no wonder the installer didn't start. For the record, I was using the daily boot floppies from powerpc-small, which appear to be kernel 2.4

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
Hello, On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:05:39PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > I'm testing the powerpc-small boot floppies and this occurred when I > > Where did you download those from, and when ? http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc-small/floppy/ Downloaded today. > > tried to

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 02:34:48PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > After reading that your mac booted from boot.img, I tried that one > and with a little more success. After loading the kernel, the system > switched to text mode and asked for the root floppy. I inserted root.img > a

Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

2004-08-19 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
Hi, On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:25:43AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: > Hi Sven, > > Progress, of a sort... > > I was really hopeful because when I booted either of the "boot" or > "ofonlyboot" floppy, I got the TuxMac icon for a while and the Mac made > happy floppy disk reading noises. However, th

Bug#264792: Acknowledgement (installation-reports: Installation report debian sarge installer)

2004-08-10 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
Some issues I forgot to mention in the installation report is this: I used dutch language settings installing. At one point, I arrived at "configuratie van apt", where you get to choose between countries for a debian mirror. The first item in the list is "Informatie handmatig invoerenArgentinië".

Bug#264792: installation-reports: Installation report debian sarge installer

2004-08-10 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
Package: installation-reports Version: N/A Severity: normal Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 2004-08-10 version rc1 netboot iso uname -a: Linux vanillevla 2.4.26-1-386 #1 Thu Jul 22 12:46:23 JST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 2004-08-10 12:00 Method: CDROM for base, in-house mir