Re: Bootstrap partition with beta4 installer

2004-07-08 Thread Brendan J Simon
The reason I chose beta4 was that the debian-installer page says it is the one that works. From http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ " Installing sarge with the Debian-Installer If you just need an installation that works, we recommend you use beta4 of the installer, after checking its

Re: Bootstrap partition with beta4 installer

2004-07-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 01:25:52PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: > I have placed the install images, kernel, etc on a small MacOS partition > and then used Open Firmware to boot the installer. So far so good. > I repartition the second MacOS partition to create a newworld bootstrap > partition,

Re: Bootstrap partition with beta4 installer

2004-07-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 01:25:52PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to install Debian testing onto a Dual G4 PowerMac. I > have downloaded the beta4 installer and burnt it on a CD. > I am having problems booting from the CD (or a DVD version I purchased) > but I will lea

Re: Bootstrap partition with beta4 installer

2004-07-08 Thread James Tappin
On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 13:25:52 +1000 Brendan J Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BJS> When finishing the partition stage, the installer gives me an error BJS> that it cannot detect the bootstrap partition. BJS> I have exited to a console and checked with mac-fdisk and the BJS> bootstrap partition loo

Bootstrap partition with beta4 installer

2004-07-07 Thread Brendan J Simon
Hi, I've been trying to install Debian testing onto a Dual G4 PowerMac. I have downloaded the beta4 installer and burnt it on a CD. I am having problems booting from the CD (or a DVD version I purchased) but I will leave this issue for another thread. I have placed the install images, kernel