Re: Potato boot floppies on Mac getting "invalid compressed format"
Eric:
Download the new stuffit 5.5 from www.aladdinsys.com. As I said before,
it unzips tgz files no problem. Christian and Michael (must be Linux developers)
say the macinstall.tgz and the base2_2.tgz files have no problems with binary
downloading that the .bin files have. These are the only 2 files you need to get
started. My 68LC040 installs fine on the first phase. It's just that after it
reboots the second time, it falls into a program loop when it starts some
"internet superserver: inetd" program.
Maybe you'll have better luck than I since you
have an FPU built in--I don't. Whatever boot floppies I'm using, they work.
Should work for you. I just make a debian directory on the boot drive, copy both
tgz files mentioned above in this directory. Drag the macinstall.tgz file onto
the stuffit Icon I conveniently placed on the desktop, drag the newly created
hqx files from the mac directory created automatically by Stuffit. And I'm ready
to set up Potato to get started. I've only tried it about 15 times.
Aieeeee
Where have I seen that message before?
Anyway, I double click on the Penguin-18. Click on
the file menu and pick settings. I set the kernel and ram disk files to their
proper locations, which I have in the mac directory. I don't use the rescue.bin
in the images-1.44 folder. I use the smaller one in the mac folder. Seems to be
some discrepancy in the install texts. They were still using the names
rescue1440 xxx1440 etc.Now they just have rescue.bin driver.bin. Anyway I don't
think it makes a difference which bin file you use.
One more thing I had to do to make it work. In the
settings from the file menu on the Options tab, I had to manually enter the
following line in the Command Line box: root=/dev/ram. I received a reply from
the lists that the other stuff from penguin-17 wasn't necessary anymore; i.e.
mac5380=4,2 etc. I think Christian said that. At the end of the first phase
where it asks you to create a boot floppy, make the disk bootable, or reboot the
system, the first two options are not available for m68k macs. I tried them both
and received that message.
So I rebooted the system back into System 7.5.5,
changed the command line option to root=/dev/sda3, saved the settings, set them
as default, and booted right into the second phase before it abended after
reaching this point:
starting internet superserver: inetd
INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disable for 5
minutes
etc
Aieeeeee
That's mine not Linux's
I suspect that the program is trying to set up the
modem and printer ports for the internet. But since ttyS1 ...ttyS5 are a
undefined on Macs running Linux, the program does not have an escape routine
written to take it out of the loop. Or maybe this is BS as Michael would say. I
don't know. Hope they fix it. Hope they fix it. Hope they fix it.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 2:06 PM
Subject: Fw: Potato boot floppies on Mac getting
"invalid compressed format"
> For a little more background, I'm
running a Quadra 800 (68040 CPU) with
> 24Megs RAM and have tried with
both MacOS 7.5 and 8.1. I downloaded the
> files using Fetch 3.03 and
stuffit expander 4.02. In order to reduce
> variables I downloaded
everything in the "mac/" directory so stuffit would
> only be used on the
three .hqx files. And I also downloaded the
> "macinstall.tgz" to make
sure it waasn't a problem with the downloads. I
> also tried
the boot floppies from
> http://www.debian.org/~cts/debian-m68k/boot-floppies/ using Netscape 3.01,
> which gave me the same results.
I have two SCSI drives attached one 1.8G
> Quantum and the other the
original 230M Quantum drive. Everything else is
> standard Mac.
>
> I could probably get custom kernels or use Penguin-17 but this won't
help
> other mac users who are trying to install Potato for the first
time. The
> existing boot-floppies must work for someone or why are they
there?
>
> Thanks,
> -Eric
>
>
> -----
Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Baker" <electro@trylon.1939worldsfair.com>
> To: "Christian T. Steigies" <cts@debian.org>
> Cc: "Eric
Kurnie" <stuff@kurnie.com>; <debian-68k@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 10:16 AM
> Subject: Re:
Potato boot floppies on Mac getting "invalid compressed format"
>
>
> > "Christian T. Steigies" <cts@debian.org> writes:
>
>
> > > On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 11:15:29PM -0700, Eric Kurnie
wrote:
> > > > After searching the archives I found someone else
that encountered the
> same problem, but nobody followed up with a
solution, so I thought I'd ask:
> > > >
> > > > I
tried both the "macinstall.tgz" from
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-m68k/current/ and
> also the 'mac' directory from the same place. In
both cases whenever I try
> running Penguin-18 with the "linux" kernel
supplied I get the following
> message:
> > > >
>
> > > GUnzipping
Root:install:mac:linux
> > > >
.
> > > > invalid compressed format
(err=2)
> > > > Error:
> >
> > Unable to read exec header from kernel
file (sread error)
> > > Hmm, when I try to boot my amiga with this
kernel image, I get:
> > > Compressed image too large!
Aborting.
> > >
> > > Is this equivalent to your error
code?
> > >
> > > Seems we have a problem,
Michael?
> > >
> > > I only wonder what all the mac
people who tested the install did. Did
> you
> > > all use a
different kernel image? Maybe somebody can build a working
>
kernel
> >
> > Nope. I used bf-mac_2.2.11_m68k.tar.gz
from
> >
> > http://www.debian.org/~cts/debian-m68k/boot-floppies/
> >
> > and the given kernel worked fine (I did
have to use a previous verion
> > of penguin, but that's another
story...). If you like, I can send you
> > all or part of the
archive.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> >
cbb
> >
>
>
>
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