Re: Installing on a firewire drive.

2009-12-21 Thread Frank J. R. Hanstick
Hello, Challenging? I did manage to boot and get the process started. Wound up with the following error messages: Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/ sad16 - Invalid argument this mean Linux won't know about changes you made to /dev/sad16 until yo

Fwd: Installing on a firewire drive.

2009-12-21 Thread Brian Morris
-- Forwarded message -- From: Brian Morris Date: Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 8:40 PM Subject: Re: Installing on a firewire drive. To: "Frank J. R. Hanstick" On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote: > Hello, >I have a PPC Quicksilver running MacOS 10.5.8 a

Re: Installing on a firewire drive.

2009-12-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 21, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote: Hello, I have a PPC Quicksilver running MacOS 10.5.8 and would like to install Linux on a partitioned Firewire drive. I looked through the installation document and could not find a way to redirect the installation to the drive.

Installing on a firewire drive.

2009-12-21 Thread Frank J. R. Hanstick
Hello, I have a PPC Quicksilver running MacOS 10.5.8 and would like to install Linux on a partitioned Firewire drive. I looked through the installation document and could not find a way to redirect the installation to the drive. The drive is recognized bootable because the MacOS is boot

Re: Power6 and Testing

2009-12-21 Thread xavier grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 xavier grave a écrit : > More informations : > using ehea.ko from my power5 install, network runs fine. Part of the > install was done under chroot and now I hit a yaboot wall : reboot after > reboot hanging each time at : > Calling ibm,client-architec

Re: Power6 and Testing

2009-12-21 Thread xavier grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 More informations : using ehea.ko from my power5 install, network runs fine. Part of the install was done under chroot and now I hit a yaboot wall : reboot after reboot hanging each time at : Calling ibm,client-architecture... I will use the cd in res

Re: Installation freezes

2009-12-21 Thread Thomas Carlson
What sort of "old G4" are you talking about? Tom On Dec 20, 2009, at 9:16 AM, Wayde Allen wrote: > I've recently been trying to install the latest copy of DebianPPC on > an old G4. The install disk boots, finds the network, partitions the > hardrive, and begins dowloading files from the mirror