Which installation files are needed by dbootstrap?

1999-11-11 Thread Christian Ericsson
Hello, I have downloaded Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato) for PowerPC. It seems to be a lot of files... And, all of them will not fit on one CDROM. How do I split up the files to fit on more than on CD? Which files are essential for the installation program dbootstrap? What directory structure should

Wrong filesystem for resc1440.bin

1999-11-11 Thread Christian Ericsson
Hello Nathan, It worked! The Debian installer started as you said it would do. But, when it comes to the section: "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules", the dbootstrap is unable to mount the Rescue Floppy. The error message I get is: Mount /dev/loop0 (type ext2) on /floppy: wrong filesyst

Re: RS6K

1999-11-11 Thread Cort Dougan
Try the 99-10-15 drop. It should work better. } Ok, progress... } } I finally managed to get it netbooting (I'd never done this before } with any machine, so had I messed a few things up). } } I used the kernels zImage.chrp and zImage.chrp.smp in } } ftp.ppc.kernel.org:/pub/linuxppc/kernel-im

Re: iMac, dselect and .finderinfo?

1999-11-11 Thread Ethan Benson
On 10/11/99 Nathan Olsen wrote: Well, I'm working my way through installing debian onto my iMac with dselect and I've hit a snag. I've copied/mount the directories from ftp.debian.org...main/binary-powerpc/ to an hfs drive on my computer. Installation seems to be going fine except that when dsel

Re: RS6K

1999-11-11 Thread David Welton
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 04:06:18PM -0700, Cort Dougan wrote: > Try the 99-10-15 drop. It should work better. Starts looping when loading "SCSI SCRIPTS": sym53c875-2: restart (scsi reset). scsi: aborting command due to timeout: pid 68, scsi2, channel 0 id 8, lun 0, Read (6) 00 00 00 02 02 and s

Re: RS6K

1999-11-11 Thread Cort Dougan
Ack! I don't get this with that drop on the F50 I have. } Starts looping when loading "SCSI SCRIPTS": } } sym53c875-2: restart (scsi reset). } } scsi: aborting command due to timeout: pid 68, scsi2, channel 0 id 8, } lun 0, Read (6) 00 00 00 02 02 } } and stuff like that. } } So, no go. Grab

Re: RS6K

1999-11-11 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
David Welton wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 04:06:18PM -0700, Cort Dougan wrote: > > Try the 99-10-15 drop. It should work better. > > Starts looping when loading "SCSI SCRIPTS": > > sym53c875-2: restart (scsi reset). > > scsi: aborting command due to timeout: pid 68, scsi2, channel 0 id 8

Re: Wrong filesystem for resc1440.bin

1999-11-11 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
Christian Ericsson wrote: > > Hello Nathan, > > It worked! The Debian installer started as you said it would do. But, when > it comes to the section: "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules", the > dbootstrap is unable to mount the Rescue Floppy. > The error message I get is: > > Mount /dev

Re: Wrong filesystem for resc1440.bin

1999-11-11 Thread Matt Porter
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 11:33:07PM +0100, Christian Ericsson wrote: > Hello Nathan, > > It worked! The Debian installer started as you said it would do. But, when > it comes to the section: "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules", the > dbootstrap is unable to mount the Rescue Floppy. > The

Re: Which installation files are needed by dbootstrap?

1999-11-11 Thread Matt Porter
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 11:32:52PM +0100, Christian Ericsson wrote: > Hello, > > I have downloaded Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato) for PowerPC. It seems to be > a lot of files... And, all of them will not fit on one CDROM. How do I > split up the files to fit on more than on CD? Which files are esse

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1999-11-11 Thread Alex Nicolaou
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Re: iMac, dselect and .finderinfo?

1999-11-11 Thread Kevin Puetz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > ugh, i hate hfs... dselect probably have to be fixed to specifically > ignore that directory... How 'bout something more general - ignore .* Is there any dotfile (dotdir, anyway) that dselect would actually be interested in? I would assume it is named as a .file just

Re: RS6K

1999-11-11 Thread David Welton
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 05:08:08PM -0700, Cort Dougan wrote: > Ack! I don't get this with that drop on the F50 I have. Hmm:-/ > Grab the latest us.kernel.org (2.2.14-pre4) and do a make > common_config and you'll have the .config for 'em (just add smp in > xconfig). Tried a number of configurat