On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 10:59:46PM -0700, Erik van Roode wrote: > Dear all, > > I tried the Aug 30th sarge-m68k-netinst.iso from > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/m68k/ but I encountered > some problems. I haven't been following m68k for some time, but I didn't see > any messages about people trying to install on Amiga. To my knowledge, the amiga install has not been well tested. Thanks for spending some time on it! > StartInstall_CV3D tries amiboot -k vmlinuz -r ../root.bin, but there is no > vmlinuz on the CD. I copied the file to another disk, and use -k > vmlinuz-2.4.26-amiga -r /root.bin But there was a vmlinuz-2.4.26-amiga? > X-surf ethernet is not detected automatically (but IDE ports are seen). > Christian already mentioned the solution: specify zorro8390. Did you have to manually load this? I wonder how this could be automated. > My first attempt was installing to a 100M ZIP disk (yeah, I know it is too > small ;), but the installer got all the way to about 70% (installing base > packages) Sounds about right. > My second attempt was installing to a spare 1G scsi drive, but I always get > stuck at the partitioning (_amiga_find_free_blocks - Loop detected at block > 0). I tried the 'erase whole disk' as well as 'manually define partitions'. > > I also tried: > - partition disk with HDToolbox (using the 2.2 install manual) > - partition disk with amiga-fdisk under linux > No luck ;( > > Before I go spend a lot of time on freeing up another SCSI drive (or even an > IDE drive), does anyone have suggestions? Sorry, no idea about the rest of it. Sounds like a hardware problem. -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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