Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: yesterday, February 18th, 2005, I installed sid with the oldworld 2.4-floppies (boot, root, net-drivers) downloaded from http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/2005-02-18/powerpc/floppy-2.4/ Method: floppies with net-drivers.img with proxy using ftp.de.debian.org as mirror and installing sid. Machine: Power Macintosh 7200/90 Memory: 32mb Root Device: scsi hd, 1gb with mace network controller and mac53c94 scsi-controller. (can give detailed lspci-output and other logs if required - to lazy to boot the slow and noisy machine now...) Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems: [O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system: [O] kernel 2.4.27 worked, 2.6.8 not - see below Install boot loader: [O] manual fix was needed - see below Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: 1. If i write the root.img on disk and compare the disk with the image I get an error, but the disk is ok: dd if=root.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync ; sync ; cmp /dev/fd0 root.img 1378+1 records in 1379+0 records out cmp: EOF on root.img [this paragraph is quoted from an report of mine from 2004-05-25, but it's still true... if wonder what's happening here. imho this bugreport should be cloned and this issue should be tracked+solved.] 2. svenl told me on irc that this floppy install uses sid udebs. when rc3 gets released somewhere these floppies should be made available as rc-builds. (they can't be part of the official builds because they require miboot.) 3. in the beginning of the installation I was prompted to enter the keyboard type : usb or none. (I don't remember the exact wording as I didn't take a note on this immediatly - can do if wanted.) the pmac 7200 has no usb at all and uses a adb-keyboard... I choose usb (was curios what whould happen) and all went well... 4. at the end of base-install a long list of kernels was prompted and kernel-image-2.4.27-powerpc-pmac was preselected. I was a little confused to find 2.6.9 in that list as well... 5. installing kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc (v. 2.6.8-10) failed with "no do_initrd=yes in /etc/kernel.img.conf" :-( (Supplying this and with a fixed quik.conf (see below and also add initrd=...) this kernel-image works as well.) 6. installing kernel-image-2.4.27-powerpc-pmac worked well. 7. then I choose quik in main-menu and a IMHO to scary text was shown: "do you really want to install quik ?" with the default answer being "no". The IMHO scary worded text told me the this wasnt tested very well. although being true, people how choose quik, most often have no other choice and therefore shouldn't be scared so much. but the real fix I guess is not finding better wordings but is fixing the situation and then removing the text. and the real bug is that although i choose to install quik the pre-selected answer to "install quik" is no. 8. I choose yes and /etc/quik.conf was generated but contained a wrong line: image=/boot/vmlinuz whereas the right line would be image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-powerpc [I guess this bug should be cloned again and assigned to quik] After changing this and running quik again I choose reboot and the rest of the installation continued without problems. regards, Holger
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