Re: Boot floppies 2.2.11 report (failure)
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 11:33:33PM +0200, Bjoern Brill wrote:
> * Documentation:
> - Something's gone wrong with mac-fdisk.txt (sized 1 byte) and
> pmac-fdisk.txt (sized 26 bytes, reads "** man page not found **").
Oups... have to look into that. Of course I don't have that deb installed on
my amiga, perhaps I should...
> *Boot:
> - Do the installation tools really have to reside in mac/install/mac/
> (useless nesting) ?
It just looks like slink (debian/install/mac). Since I did not understnad
the mac magic, I just left it as it is. Tell me a better path, and I'll
change it.
> - I'd prefer "default" Penguin prefs that won't ask me for real floppies.
Edit them and give them to me.
> - "Don't Disable Video Card VBL's" in the Penguin prefs shouldn't be
> checked?
See above... I dont have a mac, not sure if I could do that with a mac
emulator.
> - There are two files called root.bin, a smaller one in mac/ and a larger
> one in mac/images-1.44 . After a moment of confusion I decide the
> difference is just empty space to fill up a floppy and use the smaller
> one.
The larger is for creating a (DOS) floppy, I don't know if thats good for
anything, but all (sub)arches do that...
> A later test with the larger one shows I've been right, but I have
> to assign more memory to Penguin-17 than the default 2048/3072 k or
> it can't allocate enough memory for kernel and the larger root image.
> [Of course this is just a minor documentation issue.]
So just use the small one? Doesn't it use that by default? It should be in
your boot args?
> - Linux boots up cleanly and throws me into the installer.
:-)
> * Configure the Keyboard:
> - Several offered mac keymaps can't be loaded, e.g. both german ones.
> Logging in on tty2 and fooling aroung with the busybox toy tar I notice
> the mac tree of /etc/keymaps.tgz looks like the slink version. It contains
> only mac/mac-us-std.bmap, mac/mac-us-ext.bmap and mac/mac-fr2-ext.bmap .
Somewhere I read that there was a problem with the mac-german keymap and it
was kicked out for that reason. Repair it and get the keymap into its
package (kbd-data? console-data?). But maybe we can hack something so that
it goes into the boot-floppies, I don't think the chances are high to get a
new kbd only for a missing mac keyboard...
> * Install Operating System Kernel and Modules:
> - I have the necessary files on a local HFS partition, so I choose
> "partition on hard disk". Being prompted for a path, I'm surprised to see
> /instmnt as the default. I expected to be asked for a path relative to the
> partition, but this looks like a question for an absolute path. Switching
> to tty2, I can check the HFS partiton is in fact mounted on /instmnt. Be
> it. I have a directory mimicking a full Debian hierarchy on the partition
> and enter its absolute path, starting with /instmnt. It seems to be
> recognized because I am offered to choose the default stable archive,
> which I do.
instmnt is common, when I select partition on a harddisk, I usually let the
installer search all available archives, that takes its time, but it allways
finds the correct one(s).
> - Now comes up a funny dialog box stating "NFS install detected. Copying
> mac/images-1.44/rescue.bin to local before processing...".
> That's ridiculous because there's nothing local to copy to and maybe
> the cause for the trouble that follows. [But most probably not m68k
> specific.]
I never did an NFS install... I installed into my old swap partition, could
you try that as well? Its ~100MB, good enough for a base install.
> Mounting the HFS partition by hand and using "already mounted partiton"
> gave the same results.
>
> - I haven't been able to proceed beyond this point.
No idea here... but up to here things look good :-)
macxperts to the front!
Christian
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