debian ppc bafflement?
Hi there,
Im pretty new to debian ppc but not debian itself I should start by
saying before I explain how confused its gotten me on a ppc =) I have
successfully gotten it working on x86, sparc and alpha so im really
embarassed about this *grin*
Question: whats up with the installer?
Ive been playing around with an installer from potato and it has me a
bit puzzled really.
What is happening is that its getting to the very early and boring
point where it says that i need to partition the hdd, which i do so,
then it wont play ball. It says that there is no suitable partition
to install.
Here are a couple of attempts at fooling it ive made.
1: used the fdisk on the debian unofficial potato cd image and tried
type of Linux, Linux Native, linux, linux native ext, its kinda odd
2: installed linuxppc and booted it just to check that it really was
actually partitioned and formatted appropriately, no problems there
3: popped the debian cd back in and unpacked the base.tgz over the
partition and booted it a few times just for fun, mostly into single
user mode.
If anyhow has an idea of whats going on, or for that matter are
familar on how to actually get the debian installer to run conned
after booting off the kernel image on the hdd it would be
appreciated. Im not familiar enough with the debian installer
scripts to get the lot going after i unpack the base and become faced
with some message about having the wrong disk image in and need to
reboot and proceed to 'configure base system'.
ta,
Jamie
ps: the spot where you can get the installer to show you the
partition shows it as unknow or something handy when its definately
ext2
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