Fw: Potato boot floppies on Mac getting "invalid compressed format"
For a little more background, I'm running a Quadra 800 (68040 CPU) with
24Megs RAM and have tried with both MacOS 7.5 and 8.1. I downloaded the
files using Fetch 3.03 and stuffit expander 4.02. In order to reduce
variables I downloaded everything in the "mac/" directory so stuffit would
only be used on the three .hqx files. And I also downloaded the
"macinstall.tgz" to make sure it waasn't a problem with the downloads. I
also tried the boot floppies from
http://www.debian.org/~cts/debian-m68k/boot-floppies/ using Netscape 3.01,
which gave me the same results. I have two SCSI drives attached one 1.8G
Quantum and the other the original 230M Quantum drive. Everything else is
standard Mac.
I could probably get custom kernels or use Penguin-17 but this won't help
other mac users who are trying to install Potato for the first time. The
existing boot-floppies must work for someone or why are they there?
Thanks,
-Eric
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Baker" <electro@trylon.1939worldsfair.com>
To: "Christian T. Steigies" <cts@debian.org>
Cc: "Eric Kurnie" <stuff@kurnie.com>; <debian-68k@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: Potato boot floppies on Mac getting "invalid compressed format"
> "Christian T. Steigies" <cts@debian.org> writes:
>
> > On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 11:15:29PM -0700, Eric Kurnie wrote:
> > > After searching the archives I found someone else that encountered the
same problem, but nobody followed up with a solution, so I thought I'd ask:
> > >
> > > I tried both the "macinstall.tgz" from
ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-m68k/current/ and
also the 'mac' directory from the same place. In both cases whenever I try
running Penguin-18 with the "linux" kernel supplied I get the following
message:
> > >
> > > GUnzipping Root:install:mac:linux
> > > .
> > > invalid compressed format (err=2)
> > > Error:
> > > Unable to read exec header from kernel file (sread error)
> > Hmm, when I try to boot my amiga with this kernel image, I get:
> > Compressed image too large! Aborting.
> >
> > Is this equivalent to your error code?
> >
> > Seems we have a problem, Michael?
> >
> > I only wonder what all the mac people who tested the install did. Did
you
> > all use a different kernel image? Maybe somebody can build a working
kernel
>
> Nope. I used bf-mac_2.2.11_m68k.tar.gz from
>
> http://www.debian.org/~cts/debian-m68k/boot-floppies/
>
> and the given kernel worked fine (I did have to use a previous verion
> of penguin, but that's another story...). If you like, I can send you
> all or part of the archive.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> cbb
>
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