RE: 68k mail list

[Grant Bowman <grantbow@svpal.org>]

At 6:23 PM -0700 6/22/98, Michael Schmitz wrote:
>On 6/22/98, Grant Bowman wrote:
>>What I wanted to get on there for is to discuss my recent attempt at
>>installation on my Mac IIsi.  I got the machine to boot OK, and it got the
>>kernel loaded mostly, and I think I did something wrong with placing the
>>correct files on the hard disk to continue from there, as it just hangs
>>there.
>
>Hangs where ? Any error messages, or other information to enlighten us?

OK, my search for Debian on my old Mac continues.  I got rid of the hang by
installing an FPU in my IIsi, but now the keyboard doesn't work.  As a long
time BMUG member, I was lucky that someone at the weekly meeting happened
to have an FPU I could purchase cheap.  It booted successfully yesterday
with the FPU at the meeting.

My system is a Mac IIsi, 17 MB RAM, 40 MB internal hard disk, 240 MB
external hard disk, color monitor, extended keyboard.  I am booting from a
system on the internal 40 MB drive.  I have a partition on the 240 drive
for the base2_0.tgz.  I now am able to get to the first Debian install
screen, but there it says to use Up/Down to select either color or
monochrome, and I am unable to do so.  I know my mouse and keyboard are
functional under MacOS.  During the boot sequence, the keyboard says it
timed out, then says it's initialized OK, and turns on the LEDs just fine.
No key I type has any effect on the first screen.  So I am stuck here for
right now.

>>I need three files on there, the base, root and boot images, and I boot
>>from the apple-only rescue disk, right?
>
>Right (substitute resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin for root and boot image, but
>I guess that's what you meant). [... good suggestions/summary omitted ...]
>
>There's a short readme together with the Mac install disk image, but you sure
>read it already ... should explain more or less what I've just repeated, for
>the umpteenth time.

Sorry for the vague initial post, Michael.  I have read all the
documentation I can find.  I have the resc1440.bin from the
/pub/debian/hamm/hamm/disks-68k/1998-03-10/mac but didn't find a
drv1440.bin image there.  I took the drv1440.bin from the Amiga area.  I
also have the base2_0.tgz and root.bin from the common area.

Thanks in advance,

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-- Grant Bowman                                   <grantbow@svpal.org>



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