Re: Problem installing debian on G3 beige
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 12:27:40PM +0100, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:
> Info for booting is needed, as that is the only topic I had problems with in debian PPC, 2.2r0 was extreme! 2.2r2 is better on new world Macs
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> But video is harder! fb is probably not well documented for PPC, I heard, some video stuff:
I found this:
http://www.linux-france.org/article/materiel/mac/xf86config.html
it's written in french, but with babelfish it's readable.
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> fbset 1024x768-75 -accel False
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> to show your current settings:
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> fbset -s
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> to change all consoles:
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> fbset 1024x768-75 -a -accel False
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> "make the system bootable from the hard drive?" only works on new world Macs I think?
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> Gjermund
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> On søndag 7. januar 2001 02:09, Andrew Sharp <andy@netfall.com> wrote:
> >I had the exact same problem on this Pmac 7200/megaslow. I sent
> >in a bug report to the right address at debian, and the
> >summary of the reply I got was that it appeared to be kernel
> >bug and they forwarded the report to the appropriate place
> >for that. I eventually got BootX application to work, but the
> >documentation is woefully short on how to initially boot
> >your system. For instance, the BootX on the CD requires that
> >you have a minimum level of StuffIt Expander on your
> >system, but none of that is mentioned, not even that you need
> >StuffIt Expander at all to handle this type of file. If
> >you're not already a Mac-head, you are left pretty much in the
> >dark. I did manage to scrounge enough info from many
> >places around the internet to make a guess that I needed to
> >download a newer version of StuffIt, but even then I had to
> >use a search engine to find what web site to go to for it. A
> >lot more details needs to go into the debian docs for the
> >PPC distro when it comes to booting and video. There seems to
> >be a whole lot of assumptions made about what the user is
> >knowledgeable about. Of course I am the perfect test-idiot
> >when it comes to powerpc.
> >
> >It isn't a problem with COFF v. ELF or any of that. The kernel
> >boots, it just doesn't get the ADB keyboard
> >working/functional. Once you paw through 57 different doc
> >sources, you can get BootX to work, and then go from there.
> >If you don't already have a MacOS partition running, you are
> >probably in an pretty tough spot.
> >
> >The CDROM drive won't boot the CD, I assumed it is because this
> >old machine isn't capable, but I don't know. I tried a
> >new SCSI CDROM drive in it, it refused to even recognize the
> >drive on boot up.
> >
> >Another humorous bug is that during the install, it says "make
> >the system bootable from the hard drive?" and of course
> >you say "yes", and it acts like it did something excellent, but
> >it didn't. I think this part of the install is a noop on
> >PPC, is that right? Should be #ifdef'd out.
> >
> >a
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> >Manea Mirko wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am trying to install debian on a power G3 beige.
> >>
> >> I downloaded
> >>
> >ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/2.2.19-2000-12-03/powermac/images-1.44/boot-floppy-hfs.img
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> >> and
> >>
> >>
> >ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/2.2.19-2000-12-03/powermac/images-1.44/root.bin
> >>
> >> When I start with the boot floopy, the kernel is loaded and then I am prompt
> >> for ramdisk (ie root.bin, I think).
> >>
> >> The problem is that if I press enter, nothing happens! In fact the keyboard
> >> seems locked. Is this a known problem ? I tried to write boot image to
> >> many floppies, but nothing changes.. I also reset open firmware with
> >> command-option-R-P..
> >>
> >> Any help would be appreciated !
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Mirko
> >>
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Best Regards,
Mirko Manea <mami@mami.net>
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