Failed PowerPC install
I recently tried installing Sarge via the netinst image (file date
2003-10-08) on my 900 MHz G3 iBook. Some comments:
1) When I wasn't connected to the network, dhcp took a long time to
time out. In the meantime, nothing was displayed on the screen.
This should be changed: at least a message "Trying to gain an
IP address. Please plug in an ethernet cable" would have helped.
2) After first set-up, I was dumped into pfdisk. No problem, as I
then partitioned the free space on my disk into various bits for
Linux.
However, later I was asked to "Automatically partition my disk."
This seems counter-productive - I want to keep OS X on my machine -
so I answered no. However, apparently kernel install depends on
having run the automatic partition (or something else, which
failed.)
I tried re-running installation of base, and debootstrap returned
an error code. I guess it's not idempotent; however, after that
I was utterly unable to proceed. I gave up and went back into OS X.
Please CC replies to me.
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Joe Drew <hoserhead@woot.net> <drew@debian.org>
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