Bug#261514: d-i Beta4 in iMac DV+ - several problems
Em Seg, 2004-07-26 às 10:53, Colin Watson escreveu:
> Beta 4 is very old, and I know that current daily builds have fixed many
> issues on powerpc. Could you try a current daily?
It's a little hard, now that I had downloaded some hundred megabytes...
But i'll see what I can do...
> > The partitioning doesn't work as well... If I say to it use the entire
> > disk, it says that there is no "newWorld boot partition", doen't
> > matter if I manually configures a partition for that.
>
> This should be fixed in current dailies, although I've heard some
> worrying reports in the last few days.
I think so, because when I upgraded my system, I could run ybin without
any problems
> > When I rebooted, it didn't use a wizard, it came up with a menu to
> > choose one of the options (that included "Show welcome dialog") and
> > surprisingly, there were no way to login after that, just like if it
> > didn't start any getty...
>
> Run through the menu and it will. Normally it would do that itself, but
> the errors you encountered in the first stage forced it down into expert
> mode.
Isn't it a mandatory step? why is there a way to get out without doing
it? that's what I did, and I was surprised...
>> modconf wasn't isntalled!?!?!?!?!
> modconf is really a boot-floppies thing.
What is supossed to be used now?
> > devfsd wasn't isntalled (which caused the init problem...)
> No, devfsd shouldn't be installed; don't mount devfs on reboot. You
> should be fine if you run through base-config properly.
but without it, no links were created (like /dev/hda)... Many problems
were solved when I started devfs... If that's not the way, which would
be?
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