Re: installing lenny on m68k/amiga
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 13:35, Christian T. Steigies <cts@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:19:28PM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have tried to setup debian on my Amiga again with CD image from Nov 24
>> 2008 and the Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "0" - Unofficial m68k NETINST Binary-1
>> from 20080401-05:07. With both of them it is not possible to install debian
>> without performing some changes on the CD.
> [...]
>> The lenny kernel (2.6.24) does not seem to have a driver for my Blizzard2060
>> SCSI card, 2.6.26 also does not recognize my SCSI card.
>> isofs is not built in, so that the installer can not access the installation
>> CD. I think that was the point where I also gave up last time.
> [...]
>
> I tried again using 2.6.18-4-amiga instead, but it seems I am using the
> wrong ramdisksize. I started with 9000, now I am at 1000000, but I always
> gget messages like these, with "want" = 4 * "limit" + 8
>
> ram0: rw=0, want=12891144, limit=3222784
These numbers are in 512-byte sectors, so it's a 1.6 GiB ramdisk?
Sounds a bit too big to me...
Perhaps the initrd is corrupt? Can you mount it with -o loop after
decompressing?
> Should I uncompress the initrd as well? Do I have to write the initrd to a
> spare partition? Or is this initrd not compatibable with the kernel version?
You can try to uncompress it.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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