Re: Update: New Installation problem on SE/30
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 11:38:18AM -0700, William Crowshaw wrote:
> www.geocities.com/wcrowshaw.geo/mac68kpotato_install.txt.
> It's not pretty,
> but its definitely better than the docs provided with
> potato.
If you had submitted this before the potato release, it might actually have
been integrated. Same for the woody version, I guess its too late to change
the docs for r0 now.
> I'm stuck on woody for several reasons.
> 1) Potato is presumably more stable
thats a point for potato not for woody? In my view its just stable by
definition, in practise woody is fine for m68k, especially since they use
the same kernel.
> 2) I don't see any need to be on the cutting edge of
> Debian, when stable doesn't work that hot. I'll
> choose the stabler of the 2.
The cutting edge of debian is unstable, woody is testing and will be
released soon(TM).
> 3) Practical consideration: I no longer have access to
> a CD burner which I could use to burn the woody iso's
> onto CDs. I am stuck with the potato CD's instead
> which I already own.
So why are you trying to install woody then? AFAIK there are no (official)
woody CD images yet, so there is nothing to burn, nothing to buy.
> 4) No T1 connection, so I have to use CDs to install.
I don't have a T1 connection? But you do seem to have a network connection,
or how did you get the macinstall.tar.gz? woody is designed to install from
the net. But if you can download a few MBs, the basedebs are not that big:
cts@auric:~/woody/main/disks-m68k/base-images-current>ll
total 26452
-rw-r--r-- 1 ajt debadmin 27054080 Jun 9 00:45 basedebs.tar
That replaces the base.tgz, but it uses a very differnt approach, so please
don't try to mix releases when installing (except for the kernel image).
But in your case I think the solution is easy. Get the kernel (vmlinux) from
the woody macinstall.tar.gz (maybe also the drivers disk, although I am not
sure how well that would work) and use that to install with your potato CDs.
The kernel will work with the potato install, you only might miss the
modules when you can not use the drivers disk with potato. Anyhow this
should allow you to install your basic system. Then install
kernel-image-2.2.20-mac, maybe replace vmlinux on your mac partition
(although it should be identical) and reboot. You will have the 2.2.0
modules and the kernel then. You probably have to add the modules you need
by hand then (in /etc/modules) but thats not too hard.
But I am still convinced it is possible to install woody on your box, it
works for everybody else.
Christian
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