On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 03:39:53PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 01:55:44PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: [...] > > /dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 311578126 @ 2018 (148.6G) Linux native [...] > > The install boot loader step didn't work. I got around this by going > > to a virtual console and running mkofboot myself. > > Judging from the size of /dev/hda3, this is the df-on->=100GB problem, > fixed in trunk by Martin Michlmayr but not released. I've just uploaded > yaboot-installer 0.0.26 containing this fix; a test install in a few > days would be appreciated, as my PowerBook doesn't have a disk big > enough to test this myself. I don't know how soon I'll be able to get to this, but another install is planned. > > * want proper hd-media installer image > > I can't remember if we talked about this on IRC, but how about the > netboot images? All you need to add to that is a suitable yaboot and > yaboot.conf. Well, yeah, that's kind of the point; I'd like a proper yaboot.conf to be supplied. I'm aiming to create a new webpage like: http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook/ I got a pretty good amount of positive feedback on the "medialess" install concept. > > * RAID1 is hopeless > > I've never tried it. What's broken? At this point, I don't remember. I just got weird errors on the red screens. It was hard to figure out what I was supposed to do, too. Of course this was my first time trying to configure any kind of RAID on anything. I was flying pretty blind. > > * want SMP kernels at install time > > Can you send me your /proc/cpuinfo? Sure. processor : 0 cpu : 7455, altivec supported clock : 1249MHz revision : 3.3 (pvr 8001 0303) bogomips : 1248.46 processor : 1 cpu : 7455, altivec supported clock : 1249MHz revision : 3.3 (pvr 8001 0303) bogomips : 1248.46 total bogomips : 2496.92 machine : PowerMac3,6 motherboard : PowerMac3,6 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh board revision : 00000001 detected as : 129 (PowerMac G4 Windtunnel) pmac flags : 00000000 L2 cache : 256K unified memory : 1024MB pmac-generation : NewWorld > The main problem with this is that it will stress the already enormously > full powerpc CD #1 even further. In order to be able to omit -smp > kernels from CD #1, we'll need a good fallback mechanism which doesn't > fall over (e.g. install apus kernels by mistake) when confronted with > subarchitectures, which I think means that I need to finish off my > base-installer rewrite. Yeah. Well, I admit, it's icing. > > * ugh, this is distressing. d-i created a swap partition but did not > > construct /etc/fstab such that it would be mounted (the swap > > partition did not appear at all). > > partman-basicfilesystems/fstab.d/basic *looks* right ... perhaps you > could send /var/log/debian-installer/syslog to the cloned bug? It should > have a dump of the partition table somewhere in it. Shortly after filing the bug in the first place, I sent along all my /var/log/debian-installer information, including the syslog. Oh, you said to the cloned bug. -- G. Branden Robinson | Exercise your freedom of religion. Debian GNU/Linux | Set fire to a church of your branden@debian.org | choice. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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