On Monday, January 23, 2006, at 06:58 AM, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
This is also more complicated than necessary. Why not just mount the
real MacOS partition in the first place and overwrite the
debian-installer kernel and initrd with the ones in /boot?
You mean to perform the Debian installat
On Monday, January 23, 2006, at 03:19 AM, Peter Teunissen wrote:
On 23-jan-2006, at 0:01, Ben Wehrspann wrote:
Hello all-
Recently I aquired a g3 (beige) power mac it has Open Firmware 2.4 I
used system disk to patch the OF though I must admit I don't know if
it actually did anything wh
On Wednesday, January 18, 2006, at 10:25 AM, Dombi, George wrote:
HI Chris,
I am trying to do a similar project of loading Debian Sarge on to a Mac 6500 old world powerpc using BootX. Your serious of discussions has been most supportive. I have encountered the same problems, but have not yet s
On Sunday, January 15, 2006, at 05:31 PM, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
need to be used by BootX to boot my machine. I thought Debian
supported
hfs volumes. Oh well, I guess not! :)
Yes it does! there is a kernel-module for hfs (and even for hfs+). Try
# ls -lR /lib/modules/2.6.8*-powerpc/kernel/fs
On Saturday, January 14, 2006, at 06:13 PM, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
That sounds nice. I have sent a patch for the problem you (and others)
have met, but I welcome any enhancements to that patch. The bug I
filed is #344477, available here:
http://bugs.debian.org/344477
Oh, good idea! LIke I said
Gentlemen,
Thank you very much for clearing up the file naming issue for me. Using
vmlinux and initrd.gz is definitely the way to go. I certainly feel
indebted to you all. Perhaps I could help update the fine Debian
PowerPC installation manual if I can ever get this OS booted?
Speaking of in
Hi,
I am on my sixth attempt to install Debian on a Powerbook G3
(Wallstreet). I am out of ideas. I have OpenFirmware < 3.0, so I tried
the following:
1. boot from floppies. four floppies, two different writing methods; I
think my floppy drive is too picky.
2. BootX: I could have sworn I d
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