Re: powerbook 17" install
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 09:39:28PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> Am Die, 2003-07-01 um 14.43 schrieb Brendan J Simon:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to install debian on a new 1GHz Apple Powerbook. I tried the
> > new installer at the address suggested below by Jens. It works much
> > better but still has some problems. I managed to copy the kernel,
> > net-initrd image and yaboot files to my macosx partition and booted the
> > installer via yaboot via openfirmware. It detects my hard disk fine and
> > collects it's IP info via DHCP. But it has problems during the "Detect
> > hardware and load kernel drivers for it (full version)". I get errors
> > such like:
> >
> > Detecting HW and loading kernel modules'Linux IDE Driver'
> > Do you want to load the missing module from a drivers floppy?
> > A driver floppy is a ext2 floppy with one file modules.tgz ......
> >
> > Ofcourse my Mac does not have a floppy :) Am I missing some files or is
> > it a bug in the installer ???
> In this step the installer tries to detect additional hardware, which is
> not supported by the kernel and to load kernel modules for it. Since
> probably all drivers needed for installing are included in the kernel,
> you can simply press return and not use any "drivers floppys" (obviously
> since you don't even have a floppy drive).
>
> BTW the hardware detecting part is currently reworked to use discover2
> which will play nicer with 2.4 kernels.
When this is fixed, we should check to see the user doesn't still
get an error message here on powerpc. Do we want a bug so we remember?
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