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2004-10-28 Thread Hans Ekbrand
Hi again! I found a partial solution to the problem. For the boot-floppy of woody, which has kernel-2.2.20, there exists a perl-script that lets you do what I wanted: set the boot parameters including the name of the root partition. If kernel-2.2.20 is OK for you, this is the way to go (at least

Re: unsuccessful installation on oldworld powermac apple 6400/180

2004-10-27 Thread Christian Leimer
Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > Hmm I should have said this in a more friendly way. > > Would the following procedure work: > - boot using the boot floppies > - load the necessairy modules using disk images / net > - mount /target > - chroot /target and run quik > - reboot > Dont forget to look if

Re: unsuccessful installation on oldworld powermac apple 6400/180

2004-10-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wednesday, October 27, 2004, at 11:04 AM, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: 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 t

Re: unsuccessful installation on oldworld powermac apple 6400/180

2004-10-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wednesday, October 27, 2004, at 07:44 AM, 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 suggest as being most robust and flexible is MacOS with BootX

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 suggest as being most > > robust and flexi

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'

Re: unsuccessful installation on oldworld powermac apple 6400/180

2004-10-26 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tuesday, October 26, 2004, at 03:18 AM, Hans Ekbrand wrote: After finishing the installation and rebooting, nothing happaned. The monitor warned "Check the signal cable". Since the boot floppy worked alright, I would like to use it to boot the final system, instead of booting from hard disk. Is

unsuccessful installation on oldworld powermac apple 6400/180

2004-10-26 Thread Hans Ekbrand
My experience very much resembles the one expressed by Wouter Hanegraaff in: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/10/msg00475.html My box is ide-based, however. Booting was made using floppies from: http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/2004-10-24/powerpc/flo