Re: Installation problem on New World G4
> Doug <doug@zerolimits.com> writes:
>
>> I am working on installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 "Potato" -
>> Official powerpc Binary-1 CD on a new world G4. As far as I can
>> tell, I have the base system installed correctly and used mkofboot
>> to configure the booting properly. I am unable to get the system to
>> do an initial boot so I can finish the package installation.
>>
>> It begins booting, and gets as far as finding the USB keyboard and
>> mouse and then it just hangs. If I unplug the keyboard and mouse,
>> then it gets as far as: Freeing unused kernel memory: 168k init 28k
>> prep
>
> Weird. This seems like a kernel problem. Is it repeatable? If so,
> the only thing I can suggest is to try the woody boot-floppies, which
> might have a newer kernel...
>
AFAIK, woody boot-floppies are still using the same kernel as potato.
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