Re: More on Powerbook G3 install

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 03:19:36PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 04:39:21AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > And when *are* we going to see a set of 2.2.x floppies for ppc anyway? > > I posted a URL to them not long ago

Lombard install, what now?

Trying to install on Lombard I've gotten so as far as getting my disks set up and unpacking the base installation, but when I reboot with root set to my root partition, I'm told I need to configure the base installation, and to reboot with the rescue floppy. So I set up resc1440.bin as a ramdisk

Re: Questions about install procedure

On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Hahn Rossman wrote: > I'm attempting install on a Beige G3 desktop with an xrl8 466mhz cpu. > It has an IDE drive, a scsi-2 drive, and a ultra2W on a pci > controller. I've been trying to use BootX, which cant find the > livefilesysytem and then drops me into the Redhat insta

Re: More on Powerbook G3 install

Well, after a long night of lather, rinse, reboot, I tracked down the "missing disks" problem to BootX 1.1.3. Presumably it's incompatible with MacOS 9? Anyway, with music playing I couldn't hear that the disk was spinning down just before booting the kernel and never spinning back up again. I

More on Powerbook G3 install

Hi, I'm still trying to get an install on my Powerbook G3 (lombard). After the debian installer failed with "architecture not supported," I tried doing a linuxppc install, hoping to get a bootable system that I could then wrangle into a debian system. Here's the tale... First, the kernel that

Powerbook G3 arch not supported?

I tried to install on my Powerbook G3 (lombard) and got the "Your powerpc architecture is not supported yet" message from dbootstrap. Posts in the archive seemed to indicate that this is just a bug on the install image. Is that right? Any ETA on a working installer? Thanx, Jeff