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Re: G5 powermac installer queries



On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 07:04:34PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:48:43AM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote:
> >> Hi, me again.
> >>
> >>I won't have a network connection with kernels < 2.6.14 (I need that to
> >>get sungem support for my PHY), so I'm trying to install from the weekly
> >>d-i binary CD 1.  This seems to go ok until it gets to installing
> >>yaboot, then it fails with the following messages (sorry about the long
> >>lines)
> >
> >Known problem, use the businesscard or a later businesscard iso. I think it
> >was fixed on tuesday, but if you could use today's daily build, this would 
> >be
> >fine. Well, not sure it this is the same problem as on 32bit powrrmac.
> >
> 
>  Umm, I don't seem to be able to use the businesscard in the absence of 
> a working network connection (it needs to contact a mirror to get a 
> release file, and chrooting to the installed fs to rerun yabootconfig 
> and ybin just gave the same error and didn't like boot=hd:).  That 
> doesn't seem worthy of an installation report!

You could try with firewire networking ? 

> >In any case, the right way to handle this is not to post on debian-powerpc,
> >but file an installation report at :
> >
> > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template
>
>  Done for the previous testing powerpc binary 1 CD (primarily for 
> yaboot).
> 
> >Another thing that i would really like you testing, since you are 
> >installing
> >anyway, is the graphical installer, which had success reports on pegasos 
> >and
> >32bit newworld, but not on 64bit machines :
> >
> > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/gtkdi/images/daily/powerpc64/gtk-miniiso64/mini.iso
> >
> >And report back with a separate installation template.
> 
>  Done. (didn't manage to start X, hardware details are in the report)

Mmm, no X should be used, but i guess this means you didn't get the language
question, right ? 

>  Meanwhile, I see that the weekly testing isos have been uppdated today. 
> Will try that.

post tuesday netinst should be ok.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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