Re: Installing onto external FireWire drive.

2003-10-02 Thread Segher Boessenkool
> Oh, and the yaboot config is a bit of a pain because Apple can't seem to > make up their minds about what to call the devalias for the firewire > controler. On the iBook it's fw, the G4 fwx, I think it's back to fw on the > G5, maybe. It only was fwx on some older systems, for which the built

Re: Installing onto external FireWire drive.

2003-10-02 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 02 2003, Vincent Bernat wrote: > How do you do that ? You mean mounting by UUID and/or label? Using label is as easy as setting LABEL=the_label in the /etc/fstab file, instead of specifying the device (i.e., in the first column of the file). The process is the same for UUIDs instead of la

Re: Installing onto external FireWire drive.

2003-10-02 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Pendant le repas du mercredi 01 octobre 2003, vers 19:09, Nick Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > [0] Jiggle the wire: echo scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 0 > /proc/scsi/scsi > and hope that's the right device, or try getting rescan-scsi-bus.sh to > run. mount by UUID instead of device

Re: Installing onto external FireWire drive.

2003-10-01 Thread Nick Lopez
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:07:32PM -0400, Zachary Brewster-Geisz wrote: > Hello. I'm a new subscriber, so please kick me in the right direction > if my question has been answered before (I have done a good deal of > searching). > > I'm trying to install Debian GNU/Linux onto an external FireWir

Re: Installing onto external FireWire drive.

2003-10-01 Thread Zachary Brewster-Geisz
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 10:54 PM, Chris Tillman wrote: I believe the powerpc installation kernel doesn't include drivers for Firewire. You would need to obtain or compile a kernel that does, and substitute it for the linux.bin you are using, or load the module separately (I'm not qui

Re: Installing onto external FireWire drive.

2003-09-30 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:07:32PM -0400, Zachary Brewster-Geisz wrote: > Hello. I'm a new subscriber, so please kick me in the right direction > if my question has been answered before (I have done a good deal of > searching). > > I'm trying to install Debian GNU/Linux onto an external FireWir

Installing onto external FireWire drive.

2003-09-30 Thread Zachary Brewster-Geisz
Hello. I'm a new subscriber, so please kick me in the right direction if my question has been answered before (I have done a good deal of searching). I'm trying to install Debian GNU/Linux onto an external FireWire drive, using the files from debian-imac.sourceforge.net (woody 3.0r0). I par