Re: Re: Installing on an older iMac
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:10:54AM +1100, David Creelman wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:42:00PM +1100, David Creelman wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to install Debian on an older iMac I've got hold of, but I've run into all sorts of problems.
> >
> > That would be a 32bit imac, which variety, the crt one or the sunflower model ?
> >
> How do I find that out ?
You look at it ?
Seriously, there are three kind of imacs, from the external enclosures, the
original CRT one, the sunflower flatscreen one, and the new G5 based one with
everything in the screen.
> > > I tried using the etch installer before reading the known bug reports for it. the images won't work yet. Not ready for public consumption yet. No worries. I can wait a while.
> >
> > Well, the issues should be fixed for the etch beta1, so it should be ok, but
> > it would be nice if you could test the latest netinst cds, fix went in on
> > tuesday.
> >
> > Please give also :
> >
> > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/gtkdi/images/daily/powerpc/gtk-miniiso/mini.iso
> >
> Tried mini.iso and it failed to boot the machine. Got to :-
> Welcome to Linux, kernel 2.6.12-1-powerpc
>
> linked at : 0xc0000000
> frame buffer at : 0x94008000, etc...
>
> ..Hope you don't mind if I don't transcribe everything. At this point the machine is just sitting there with this on the screen, it
> eventually reboots itself.
Do you have nvidia or radeon graphic card, and if you have the new G5 imac,
you need the powerpc64/gtk-miniiso64/mini.iso one.
> >
> > a try, this is the graphical installer and should work just fine for you.
> >
> > > Tried to use the sarge release but it didn't find the network (all my other boxes can,don't know what's wrong here).
> >
> > Mmm, strange, this should have worked. What model do you have exactly, and
> > make sure to file an installation report :
> >
> > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template
> >
> >
> I've done a report for mini.iso. I'll do one for the one that triggered my initial email.
> Thanks for your help.
No problem.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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