Re: Is the Debian 2.2 PPC CD 1 bootable?

2000-09-23 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 06:50:21PM +0100, John Winters wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm completely new to Macs and I'm trying to install Debian 2.2 PPC on > an iMac DV. (The Apple marketing types clearly lack classical > education). Should the Official Debian CD of 2.2 for PPC be bootable? > The ins

Is the Debian 2.2 PPC CD 1 bootable?

2000-09-23 Thread John Winters
Hello all, I'm completely new to Macs and I'm trying to install Debian 2.2 PPC on an iMac DV. (The Apple marketing types clearly lack classical education). Should the Official Debian CD of 2.2 for PPC be bootable? The installation instructions talk about "get yourself a bootable CD" but don't g

Re: Desperately need some help installing Debian 2.2 on a PowerBook G3

2000-09-23 Thread Michael Schmitz
> have you tried to specify the _whole_ path (including the > drive/partition)? since you copied the cd to an HFS partition, maybe > your path needs to start with something like this (assuming that your > HFS partition is hda4 - you can find out using the pdisk utitilty for > the mac): /dev/hda

Re: Desperately need some help installing Debian 2.2 on a PowerBook G3

2000-09-23 Thread Randy Adamczyk
I started by reformatting my 12 GB drive allocating half of it to MacOS 9 formatted HFS+, a CD sized partition formatted HFS, and the remainder to Linux with root, swap, /home, and /usr partitions (all of this was done through Apple's latest Disk Tools utility). I then copied the entire conten

Re: Kernel Hanging...

2000-09-23 Thread Matt Porter
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 02:04:40PM +0200, Xavier Grave wrote: > Hi all, > > After compiling and booting a 2.2.17 kernel from ftp.kernel.org on my prep > machine, I'm trying to do the same with the 2.4.0-test8. > > After succeded in compiling, the boot hang with this message : > > Linux/PPC load: