On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:36:56PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > I've just bought a Titanium and am trying to get Debian going. I've got > a PowerBook G3 and want to copy my root partition accross to the new > machine via the network. I also have to partition and install yaboot. make sure you do it right: http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc/mac-fdisk-basics.shtml > What is the easiest way to do this ? Will the PowerPC CD image boot the > Titanium ??? To install on the G3 I had to copy kernels and other files if you add video=ofonly as a kernel argument when the yaboot boot: prompt comes up it should. potato r2 CDs will not, but r3 should be fine. > to a small (1GB) MacOS partition and boot the system via OpenFirmware. > I'm trying this now but it was a year ago when I last did this and > things aren't quite working. Is NFS an option ??? yes: http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc/netboot.shtml > To partition I need to use mac-fdisk which means I have to boot linux. yup see mac-fdisk-basics > I have a 2.4.2 kernel and the ramdisk.image.gz file from 2.2r3 in the > root directory of my MacOS partition. Is this all I need ? I tried > typing "boot hd:10,vmlinux-2.4.2-bjs" and OF responded with "CLAIM > failed". Does this mean it could not claim the memory ??? I've tried > with root=/dev/ram and initrd=ramdisk.image.gz but the same error > occurs. It seems the kernel isn't loading at all. OF cannot boot kernels directly, you must boot via yaboot. > Any ideas ??? see above > Is there an easier way ??? boot from the CD, at the yaboot boot: prompt hit tab, then type the *ed image name, and video=ofonly probably: boot: linux video=ofonly > Any howtos for Titanium ??? not sure.. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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