gave it another try this evening, and for no apparent reason, it booted up
to a much furthur place, still not an install, but past memory allocations.
It had a line that said cut here
followed by a slew of messages, some of which began with 'kernel bug' and a
memory dump. I attempted to t
I had similar issues with hanging on boot about a month ago with
powerpc and I believe that it ended up being a corrupted boot ram
image. Would drop into a limited shell when it tried to switch to
mounting the root file systems and visually "hang". Sounds somewhat
similar, but I cant tell fro
On Aug 15, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Rick Thomas
wrote:
On Aug 15, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote:
okay, I understand now; although, there is a slight problem with
doing that, I have no other linux machines handy with disk
dri
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.5 "Squeeze"- Official powerpc NETINST Binary - 1
20120512-20:49
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> On Aug 15, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote:
>
> okay, I understand now; although, there is a slight problem with doing
>> that, I have no other l
On Aug 15, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote:
okay, I understand now; although, there is a slight problem with
doing that, I have no other linux machines handy with disk drives.
Is there a way of doing that from the mac terminal?
If you just put the CD in the CD drive with MacOS-
wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>>>
>>> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>>>> From: Michael Aldridge
>>>> Date: August 14, 2012 6:05:29 PM PDT
>>>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>>>
On Aug 15, 2012, at 8:25 AM, Michael Aldridge wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Rick Thomas
wrote:
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
From: Michael Aldridge
Date: August 14, 2012 6:05:29 PM PDT
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg
After
gt; *Date: *August 14, 2012 6:05:29 PM PDT
> *To: *debian-user@lists.debian.org
> *Subject: **PowerPC install stuck at dmesg*
>
> After deciding that the official OS was becoming too slow for this aging
> hardware, and Apple PowerBook G4 FW800 (not sure about the FW800, it could
> be t
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:06:09AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> First: try sending this to the "debian-powerpc" list. You may get
> more answers there...
>
> Second: I have a couple of G4 tower machines that work just fine,
> but unfortunately I don't have any powerbooks to try, s
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Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
From: Michael Aldridge
Date: August 14, 2012 6:05:29 PM PDT
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg
After deciding that the official OS was becoming too slow for this
aging hardware, and
After deciding that the official OS was becoming too slow for this aging
hardware, and Apple PowerBook G4 FW800 (not sure about the FW800, it could
be the one immediately following that model), I decided to install debian
and then a WM such as LXDE, to better use the hardware. I downloaded,
burned
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