Bug#269529: OldWorld pmac installation -- several problems

[Rick_Thomas <rbthomas@rcthomas.org>]

On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 04:55, Sven Luther wrote:

> Can we investigate if it comes from the powerpc-small config or not ? Mmm, i
> should probably look into the logs ... Seems to be only powerpc-small kernels
> used.
> 
> Notice that for 2.6 based floppies, which is not what Rick is using, the
> swim module should be builtin. I also wonder if the floppy module is needed or
> not in order for the kernel to load the initrd on the root floppy ? 

I booted via BootX. 

I installed from the sarge powerpc businesscard CD.

For the install, I used the kernel from the CD at
"install/powerpc/vmlinux", and the initrd from the CD at
"install/powerpc/initrd.gz"

I got the iso from here:

            Index of /pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/current 
        
             Name                           Last modified       Size 
        Description
           
        ------------------------------------------------------------------------
        
             Parent Directory               29-Aug-2004 00:21      -  
             MD5SUMS                        29-Aug-2004 00:21     1k  
        >>>> sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso 29-Aug-2004 00:19   141M  
             sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso      29-Aug-2004 00:21   298M  
           
        ------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Apache/1.3.31 Server at cdimage.debian.org Port 80
        
        
        
        

Hope this helps!


Rick