On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 05:51:28PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 04:57:39PM +0000, David Pead wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I've done a fair bit of looking around on the above subject and tried many > > times to get Debian running on the G3 here but have to resort to troubling > > you folks. > > > > Spec: > > OW biege G3 - 333MHz > > 8gig HD > > SCSI CD drive (from what I've read, no chance of installing from CD drive) > > > > I'm using BootX from a small OS9 partition. I've used a net-drivers floppy > > to run the installer. I used "guided" partitioning option, installaton > > starts, fine. Then at the end it tries to use install quik, I'm not to sure > > on playing with OF so select complete without bootloader. Then am told > > location of boot disk (/dev/sda7) and to pass "root=/dev/sda7" as a kernal > > argument. > > Please file a bug report against quik-installer. Why? He didn't even try quik. Do you mean that quik-installer should know that it likely will not work on biege G3? Is it the common opinion on this list that quik should be avoided on the biege G3s? I am currently working on modifying parts of the debian-installer guide and this info should be there if it is correct. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> Q. What is that strange attachment in this mail? A. My digital signature, see www.gnupg.org for info on how you could use it to ensure that this mail is from me and has not been altered on the way to you.
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