Re: please take a look at Debian Bug#589701: installation-reports: Install yaboot on a hard disk - Failed to install boot loader

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > At this point, Debian squeeze is un-installable on NewWorld PowerPC Macs due > to yaboot's failure to adapt to the use of UUID= and LABEL= format in > /etc/fstab. > >        http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589701 > > I have pro

Re: please take a look at Debian Bug#589701: installation-reports: Install yaboot on a hard disk - Failed to install boot loader

I also found that yesterday's weekly xfce installation CD didn't recognize either of the ethernet cards on my G4 PowerMac (digital audio). Tom On Jul 20, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Rogério Brito wrote: > Hi there, Rick. > > On Jul 20 2010, Rick Thomas wrote: >> At this point, Debian squeeze is un-insta

Re: please take a look at Debian Bug#589701: installation-reports: Install yaboot on a hard disk - Failed to install boot loader

Hi there, Rick. On Jul 20 2010, Rick Thomas wrote: > At this point, Debian squeeze is un-installable on NewWorld PowerPC > Macs due to yaboot's failure to adapt to the use of UUID= and LABEL= > format in /etc/fstab. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589701 This is bad. I

please take a look at Debian Bug#589701: installation-reports: Install yaboot on a hard disk - Failed to install boot loader

At this point, Debian squeeze is un-installable on NewWorld PowerPC Macs due to yaboot's failure to adapt to the use of UUID= and LABEL= format in /etc/fstab. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589701 I have provided a partial fix in Debian bug#580455 but I have not g

Re: installing on PPC Mac Mini without any OS installed

mmh, maybe a good trick could be to use a crux-ppc iso to partition the disk (you need to do it by hand using mac-fdisk as explained in cruxppc handbook) or a gentoo-ppc iso (same as above) and after that go forward to install your Debian. regards, -- Power Mac G4 AGP 450MHz - CRUX PPC (32bit) /