Re: Daily Etch netinstall build fails installation on G5 iMac - Ethernet not detected

2007-03-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 02:06:31PM +0930, Mike Hore a écrit : > > Anyway, in the meantime installer is broken, so I did need to notify > people of this. Hi, I tried today's daily build on my iMac G5 rev. A, and the cdrom and ethernet detection went fine. Maybe you can give it a try again... Good

Re: Daily Etch netinstall build fails installation on G5 iMac - Ethernet not detected

2007-03-06 Thread Mike Hore
Thanks Ananda, Messed up the links there and posted the same one twice, the second one should be: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.powerpc/ch05s01.html#install-drive Yes, I could probably do this, though I'm fairly new to Linux and never done a kernel compile. But I have two running sy

Re: Daily Etch netinstall build fails installation on G5 iMac - Ethernet not detected

2007-03-06 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Messed up the links there and posted the same one twice, the second one should be: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.powerpc/ch05s01.html#install-drive Ananda On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 03:05:48 + Ananda Samaddar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never done this but if you're using an Open f

Re: Daily Etch netinstall build fails installation on G5 iMac - Ethernet not detected

2007-03-06 Thread Ananda Samaddar
I've never done this but if you're using an Open firmware based machine can you not compile your own kernel and boot off it to install? Here are the relevant sections of the Etch install manual http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.powerpc/ch04s05.html#files-newworld http://d-i.alioth.debian.or

Daily Etch netinstall build fails installation on G5 iMac - Ethernet not detected

2007-03-06 Thread Mike Hore
Hi folks, After some private email, I suspect the right driver has simply been omitted from the netinstall daily build, so I've submitted a bug report. Has anyone else hit this problem, or found a way around it? I get as far as the Ethernet detection, which fails. I'm presented with a coupl