Re: Install Report, powerpc oldworld 2.3.6 dtd 6/21 06:11 (woody)

2001-06-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:46:29PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > Well, i tried installing from the 2.2.23 floppies and all went well. That > was on the exact same partition that 2.3.6 had so much trouble with. BTW, I > pointed the installer at the exact same folder on my HFS drive as I did for

Re: Install Report, powerpc oldworld 2.3.6 dtd 6/21 06:11 (woody)

2001-06-26 Thread Chris Tillman
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:08:24PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: >> The symlink was generated, I verified it was there. modules.dep was >> definitely not there. > > probably because you have such serious filesystem corruption that > depmod puked. > >> Wouldn't filesystem corruption be solved by re

Re: Install Report, powerpc oldworld 2.3.6 dtd 6/21 06:11 (woody)

2001-06-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:08:24PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > I mean the repeat-key function is active even when selecting commands from > the menus, so you can select (default) items continuously if you hold the > enter key down. That's probably not trivial to change, but it would be safer

Re: Install Report, powerpc oldworld 2.3.6 dtd 6/21 06:11 (woody)

2001-06-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:22:07PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > its for quik, many versions of OldWorld BrokenFirmware(TM) are > > incapable of booting from anything but the master IDE disk, im not > > sure if that matters on scsi or not, maybe we can kill the check for > > scsi systems.

Re: Install Report, powerpc oldworld 2.3.6 dtd 6/21 06:11 (woody)

2001-06-25 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 10:35:04PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:21:20PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > These are some notes as I attempted to install the woody b-f. > > > > After selecting Partition a Hard Disk, an alert advised about there > > being no need for a boot

Re: Install Report, powerpc oldworld 2.3.6 dtd 6/21 06:11 (woody)

2001-06-25 Thread Chris Tillman
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:21:20PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: >> I noticed, this has probably always been a feature, that if you're >> heavy handed with the enter key, it's easy to skip steps, or rather, >> have them performed as default. For example, if you don't have a >> CD-ROM installed, tr

Re: Install Report, powerpc oldworld 2.3.6 dtd 6/21 06:11 (woody)

2001-06-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:21:20PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > These are some notes as I attempted to install the woody b-f. > > After selecting Partition a Hard Disk, an alert advised about there > being no need for a boot partition and "... and the root partition > must be on the first disk".

Install Report, powerpc oldworld 2.3.6 dtd 6/21 06:11 (woody)

2001-06-24 Thread Chris Tillman
These are some notes as I attempted to install the woody b-f. After selecting Partition a Hard Disk, an alert advised about there being no need for a boot partition and "... and the root partition must be on the first disk". I have had Debian installed on this machine before, on the second extern