On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:10:35PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 06:55:22AM -0700, Yan Seiner wrote: > > Using the testing installer, it crashes with can't get a pty: No such > > file or directory. If I let it run long enough, I get a fclose: no > > space left on device. > > Yes, that's known; the daily builds for 2.2 are broken currently. We're > working on it :-) Interesting, I must've missed something because I didn't know about it. I just tested hd-media from 2005-09-05 and the only problem I encountered was keyboard related (which could be skipped). It's currently installing base. It is possible that if you are creating a new partition, that it doesn't end up showing up in /proc/partitions. A reboot usually fixes it and formatting can be done normally after that. I don't know why that happens sometimes. > > I've tried both hdnative initrd.gz and initrd22.gz; same result. I've > > tried increasing the ramdisk to 20MB; same result. > > > > I am running on an LC475, 36MB RAM, 18GB hard disk (partitioned with a > > patched Apple HD SC). > > That should work If you're using 2.2.25, you must use initrd22 (whether nativehd, hd-media, or cdrom shouldn't matter). > > The machine will run linux; I have set up a minimal environment using > > busybox and I can netboot to it. It runs fine. Just the partition > > manager chokes on something on the hard disk/controller. > > > > My kernel args are root=/dev/ram ramdisk_size=20000 mac53c9x=1. > > You want "mac53c9x=1,0". The install manual was wrong there; I've sent > in a bugreport to get it fixed, but that hasn't happened for the sarge > version of the manual yet. Wouter: Thanks for that update. -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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