Install dialogs
Hello Debian folks.
Just a quick suggestion/complaint.
The install disks basically suggest creating a 5-10MB /boot partition, which
has always worked for me in the past.
I recently installed Debian on a NewWorld Power Mac from CD, which uses
kernel-image-2.4.18-newpmac
I then updates my /etc/apt/sources.list to testing, and tried 'apt-get
install kernel-image-2.4.19-powerpc'
The combination of the two kernel images do not, I repeat, do not fit in a
10MB /boot partition.
Please consider changing the recommendation in the install dialogs, so other
people won't be forced to....
boot from rescue CD
mount /, /boot and /usr ( /usr is required to run ybin, not
/target/usr/sbin/ybin, just /usr/sbin/ybin)
cp /boot somwhere temporary
unmount /boot
cp the temporary stuff back to /boot
edit /etc/fstab (commenting out the /boot line)
edit /etc/yaboot.conf (you have to change the partition yaboot expects to
find /boot on)
ybin -v
OK, it doesn't seem like all that much trouble, but for a relative newbie
like me, it ofttimes seemed daunting.
-Josh, who was SAP
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