Re: PPC Potato install from hell...

2000-03-21 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Brian Macy wrote: > > Fortunately it is now installed and behaving happily... hopefully this > > torture will pay for itself in the long run with upgrades being trivial. > > > > I'm frightened to think what installing Debian on an Alpha is going to

Re: PPC Potato install from hell...

2000-03-19 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Brian Macy wrote: > Fortunately it is now installed and behaving happily... hopefully this > torture will pay for itself in the long run with upgrades being trivial. > > I'm frightened to think what installing Debian on an Alpha is going to > be like. Makes the Debian i386 ins

Re: PPC Potato install from hell...

2000-03-19 Thread Brian Macy
I used the latest from openrock.net/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/2.2.8-2000-03-08/powermac as of 3/17/00 around 10pm PDT. They are dated 3/8. I may have tried the same tree from ftp.us.debian.org too (one of the IPs)... don't remember. Brian Macy Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > And what a

Re: PPC Potato install from hell...

2000-03-18 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
And what are you using for install disks? The ones in the archive as of a few days ago should work far better than this, and have in fact been reported to. On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 07:54:24AM -0800, Brian Macy wrote: > Little note on hardware... I actually wrote this to some friends at 2am > last

PPC Potato install from hell...

2000-03-18 Thread Brian Macy
Little note on hardware... I actually wrote this to some friends at 2am last night... - StarMax 4000 - Using IDE drives - PS/2 keyboard/mouse (but I tried the ADB stuff when the keymapping hosed) - Had LinuxPPC 1999 installed before - Using BootX - Used one of my compiled kernels a few times when I