On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 08:50:23AM +0200, Kovacs I. Zoltan wrote: > Hello! > > My problem is, that the debian potato boot disks cannot install on my > mac the distro. There are four disks, the boot disk, the driver-1 disk, > the rescue floppy and the root image disk. After i make these disks, and > reboot with the boot floppy, it asks for the root disk, then it starts > the installer, but cannot recognize my hard disk. I cannot partition my > HD. It asks for the IP configuration, and wants to install from an nfs > export on the network. This machine is at home, and i haven't got a > network there. > I have experience with debian only on i386 plattform, and i like it, and > use it every day at work. > I tried LinuxPPC 2000, it installs fine and runs fine, but i'm a > "little" confused about the red-hat style system. The linuxPPC can > recognize my hard disk, and i was able to partition and format it. > > So, I _want_ debian. How can I install? > > Configuration: > PM 7600/132 > 128MB RAM > Quantum Atlas V 9.1 GB HDD (with a wide-to narrow adapter) scsi disk i presume, my guess is the debian kernel is missing the necessary scsi driver, all it should take is making a new boot disk with a kernel compiled in with the right driver... can you get a dmesg output from both the linuxppc kernel and the debian kernel? that would help in confirming this. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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