Offering Powerbook for someone who will use it for this project

2023-05-10 Thread Sam Imberman
ct me off list. Best regards, Sam Imberman

Re: yaboot installation media

2022-03-28 Thread Sam Imberman
Hi, I can confirm that I was able to boot from the image from a USB key using the line from Ben Westover in the previous message. A CD-RW and two USB keys failed to work, it worked on the third USB key -- who knows why. I have some slowness and error messages on boot ("ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16)

Re: yaboot installation media

2022-03-27 Thread Sam Imberman
Hi, I'm actually having more or less the same problem with my Powerbook G4 Aluminum. I am using the image from https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-18/non-free/ , which I burnt on a USB stick with "dd if=./debian-11.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso of=/dev/sdg bs=1M" When I boot the

Re: Installation media couldn't be mounted

2020-10-20 Thread Sam Imberman
I burnt the image using Rufus on Windows, which IIRC should be fine, though I can do it with dd on a *nix machine later if someone thinks it may make a difference. For the moment I've managed to 'solve' the problem by using the snapshot from 2019-07-03, which seems to work. If I can help troublesh

Re: Installation media couldn't be mounted

2020-10-18 Thread Sam Imberman
.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi Sam! > > On 10/16/20 6:51 PM, Sam Imberman wrote: > > That doesn't work either: "mounting /dev/sdb1 on /cdrom failed: No such > > device" > > What's the output of: > > > cat /proc/partitions > > ? &g

Re: Installation media couldn't be mounted

2020-10-16 Thread Sam Imberman
That doesn't work either: "mounting /dev/sdb1 on /cdrom failed: No such device" On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 12:45 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi Sam! > > On 10/16/20 6:38 PM, Sam Imberman wrote: > > Yes, sorry, I meant to

Re: Installation media couldn't be mounted

2020-10-16 Thread Sam Imberman
ut them up here: https://imgur.com/a/6wveWpi On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 4:29 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 10/15/20 9:05 PM, Sam Imberman wrote: > > So actually, it looks like I was using the image you linked to -- it's > the > > e

Re: Installation media couldn't be mounted

2020-10-15 Thread Sam Imberman
y the old 10.0.0 though? On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 2:43 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi Sam! > > On 10/15/20 5:59 PM, Sam Imberman wrote: > > Thanks for your response! > > The image is the one available at: > > > http

Re: Installation media couldn't be mounted

2020-10-15 Thread Sam Imberman
Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 11:59:32AM -0400, Sam Imberman wrote: > > Thanks for your response! > > The image is the one available at: > > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/10.0/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-10.0-powerpc-NETIN

Re: Installation media couldn't be mounted

2020-10-15 Thread Sam Imberman
d: No such file or directory". I have verified that /cdrom is present and writable, and /dev/sdb1 seems to be the right device. Sam On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 10:39 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi Sam! > > On 10/15/20 4:32 PM, Sam Imber

Installation media couldn't be mounted

2020-10-15 Thread Sam Imberman
Hello, I've burnt the 10.0.0 netinst image to a USB stick and I am trying to install Debian to a Powerbook G4 12". I am receiving the error message that "your installation media couldn't be mounted". When I switch to the messages console, I have several errors from cdrom-detect: CD-ROM mount fail