Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-09-12 Thread peter karlsson
> Anyhow, even if you don't want to actually re-install or whatever, you > can at least boot with the 3.0.x install system and get far enough > (without initializing or anything) just to check to see if it can find > your partitions. Should be non-destructive. I can't get it to work. My severely

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2001-08-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-07-01 Thread peter karlsson
Me, on 2001-06-04: > > > Well, as I said, the installer doesn't find the partition, so it can't > > > initialize it. > > Can you initialize it by hand? > I can run mke2fs and mount it on /target manually from VC2, and this is > accepted by the installer, even though it believes I do not have any

Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-06-03 Thread peter karlsson
Christian T. Steigies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Well, as I said, the installer doesn't find the partition, so it can't > > initialize it. > Can you initialize it by hand? I can run mke2fs and mount it on /target manually from VC2, and this is accepted by the installer, even though it believes I d

Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-06-01 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 07:17:10AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > > It does format them for you, I think the step is called initiali(s|z)e a > > linux partition. This one should be called before trying to mount the > > filesystems, did you do that? > > Well, as I said, the installer doesn't find

Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-31 Thread peter karlsson
> It does format them for you, I think the step is called initiali(s|z)e a > linux partition. This one should be called before trying to mount the > filesystems, did you do that? Well, as I said, the installer doesn't find the partition, so it can't initialize it. -- \\// peter - http://www.sof

Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-31 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:54:31PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > > Now since this version did not work either for Peter, can you mount the > > linux partion by hand in the installer? Maybe it is not formatted yet? > > I haven't formatted it yet -- I was hoping the installer would do that > for m

Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-31 Thread peter karlsson
> Now since this version did not work either for Peter, can you mount the > linux partion by hand in the installer? Maybe it is not formatted yet? I haven't formatted it yet -- I was hoping the installer would do that for me :-) I can mount the Amiga partition (that's how I got the fdisk and dmes

Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-31 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:58:59PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > "Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Maybe you can try the "experimental" boot-floppies (I thought I had uploaded > > them long ago?). Link is on my potato page, but this should work: > > auric.debian.org/~cts/b

Re: Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 06:41:39PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > Christian T. Steigies: > > > >> Maybe you can try the "experimental" boot-floppies (I thought I had uploaded > >> them long ago?). Link is on my potato page, but this should work: > >> auric.debian.org/~cts/bf > > > > The installe

Re: Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-30 Thread Matt Kraai
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 06:41:39PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > Christian T. Steigies: > > > >> Maybe you can try the "experimental" boot-floppies (I thought I had uploaded > >> them long ago?). Link is on my potato page, but this should work: > >> auric.debian.org/~cts/bf > > > > The installe

Re: Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-30 Thread peter karlsson
Chris Tillman: > By any chance, could this be the problem where the swap partition must be > *named* swap? That's true for PowerPC partitions. Well, the partitions are tagged with "LNX\0" and "SWP\0", as they should. The amiga-fdisk program did that for me. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolve

Re: Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-30 Thread Chris Tillman
> Christian T. Steigies: > >> Maybe you can try the "experimental" boot-floppies (I thought I had uploaded >> them long ago?). Link is on my potato page, but this should work: >> auric.debian.org/~cts/bf > > The installer says the same things "There are no Linux swap partitions" > and "There are

Re: Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-30 Thread peter karlsson
Christian T. Steigies: > Maybe you can try the "experimental" boot-floppies (I thought I had uploaded > them long ago?). Link is on my potato page, but this should work: > auric.debian.org/~cts/bf The installer says the same things "There are no Linux swap partitions" and "There are no Linux nat

Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe you can try the "experimental" boot-floppies (I thought I had uploaded > them long ago?). Link is on my potato page, but this should work: > auric.debian.org/~cts/bf What changes, if any, would there be in that version? -- .Adam D

Re: Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-30 Thread peter karlsson
Christian T. Steigies: > But are you sure bf 2.2.19 uses the 2.2.10 kernel and not 2.2.17? These are the files taken directly from my nearest Debian mirror. I downloaded the amigainstall.tgz and base2_2.tgz files, re-packed the first tgz to an lha on my i386 box, transferred the files to the Ami

Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-30 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:48:40AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > fdisk -l /dev/hda: > > > > ===[ cut ]=== > > Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 17471 sectors, 18613 cylinders, RDB: 3 > > Logical Cylinders from 1 to 22364, 143122432 bytes/Cylinder > > > >Device Boot Mount Begin End S

Bug#99185: Problem installing Potato on an Amiga 1200

2001-05-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Resubmitting this against the bug for records... peter karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Christian T. Steigies: > > > it usually gives you some information on the third(?) console. what does it > > day? > > It doesn't give any errors. > > > Did you set the partition types to linux and