FW: miboot-floppies for etch-install on powerpc/oldworld?

2007-12-26 Thread rob rob
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: miboot-floppies for etch-install on powerpc/oldworld? > Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:51:08 + > > > Hi, > the floppy images at > http://layer-acht.org/d-i-miboot/ > worked for me. They are for debian sarge, though. After it's insta

Re: QUIK READ ERROR ON BLOCK 63747 (KERNAL PANIC NOW!)

2007-03-19 Thread rob rob
Hello, check this out: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quik/+bug/83346 apparently quik can't boot ubuntu's newer kernels. I also a kernel panic with the newer 2.6 kernel under debian. I was however able to boot the 2.6.8 kernel, though, and Ubuntu warty has kernel-image-2.6.7-powerpc. So,

Re: A friendly plea for Linux PPC help!

2007-03-18 Thread rob rob
Err, who the hell is Paul Anderson? I did manage to get quik installed and booting under a running debian installation that booted with bootx, so, take hope, it is possible. However this was done with debian and not ubuntu. You mentioned using quikconfig. Have you changed the /etc/quik.conf file

Re: A friendly plea for Linux PPC help!

2007-03-16 Thread rob rob
Hello, I hate to bud in, but I suggest getting the boot floppies from: http://layer-acht.org/d-i-miboot/powerpc/floppy-2.4/ These are the old sarge boot floppies, which work. The ones at ~wouter which are from etch seem to be in a constant state of disarray. (unless of course someone has fixe

Re: miboot floppies from layer-acht

2007-02-09 Thread rob rob
Hi Holger, So I got over the problem with quik and debian is installed here are some notes. When choosing the to be installed version I get the following message: wget -q http://debian.uni-essen.de/debian//dists/sarge/Realease _O - | grep ^Suite: | cut -d' ' -f 2 which would seem to sugges

miboot floppies from layer-acht

2007-01-13 Thread rob rob
Hello, as some of you may not remember, I posted a few times last year trying to get the miboot floppies available at people.debian.org/~wouterd-i/powerpc-miboot/.. to work. For those of you who don't know, the floppies are used for installing debian on 'old world' powerpc. The floppies are e

miboot

2006-09-25 Thread rob rob
Hello all, I have a powerpc 6500/275 and am trying to install debian etch with the floppy images from ~wouter, or the beta3 from debian for that matter. Everything works fine until I insert the net-install.img. Through mail contact with piotras, after "erroneously" posting on the debootloaders-