resc1440.bin Installation woes
Hi
I have been trying to install debian-powerpc on my PowerBase200 machine. It gets stuck at the "install Kernel and Modules" step - it finds the resc1440.bin image (which I put on my LinuxPPC partition), but is unable to mount it.
The error message suggests using '-o loop' in the mount command, so I tried doing that manually. I got this to work, using the command 'mount /dev/hda8 /floppy -o loop' (only by pointing BootX at my LinuxPPC kernel, with the debain ramdisk.image, since the kernel in the debian dist doesn't support '-o loop'), and ran the script /floppy/install.sh that was in the image. Second time I ran it, it said the kernel was install successfully, and it appeared in /boot. But the installer still thinks the kernel and modules are not loaded, and keeps bumping me back to that step.
Any and all help in getting this to work would be greatly appreciated. I got the resc1440.bin image from ftp.debian.org on Feb13, and was sure to use binary mode etc.
thanx
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