Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Goswin von Brederlow schrieb: Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:32:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: 6) Test installer! The incarnation I used couldn't install the kernel and modules because of the missing ppcdetect. I got around this in console 2 by copyi

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Stewart Smith
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 00:58, Chris Tillman wrote: > No, I don't think so. Well, maybe. The CD is an hfs/iso, so in theory > one could put BootX on it (both resource fork and data fork). But in > practice, it might not work well. The first issue that arises is: what > kind of Linux script can build

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:59:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > 1) Burn a CD from > > > > > > > > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/powerpc/ > > > > > > > > (I used the sarge-po

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:59:08PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:32:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > I tested d-i using BootX. > > Greate. Your destined to test disk boots for powerpc then. You make 'em, I brea

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:32:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > I tested d-i using BootX. Greate. Your destined to test disk boots for powerpc then. > Cool. Tell me again though, there are some oldworld pmacs which can't do > this and need miboot, rig

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 08:40:13AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:32:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > I tested d-i using BootX. > > Cool. Tell me again though, there are some oldworld pmacs which can't do > this and need miboot, right ? > The reason we still need the

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 16 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:32:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > I tested d-i using BootX. > > Cool. Tell me again though, there are some oldworld pmacs which can't do > this and need miboot, right ? BootX is a method of booting Linux from MacOS, which means

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:32:35PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > I tested d-i using BootX. Cool. Tell me again though, there are some oldworld pmacs which can't do this and need miboot, right ? > 1) Burn a CD from > > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/powerpc/ > > (I used the sar