On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 05:00:28PM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Andreas Wüst <andiw@pop.agri.ch> wrote: > > Hi, > > > After reading this one can say that it is, at the moment, impossible to > > install woody on a ppc machine? > > I did it on a Tibook 2 days ago, and my Debian runs just fine at the > moment (I made a bootable CD 1 of Woody using my local mirror -- > boot-floppies 3.0.13). *But* the boot-floppies are quite broken : > > - it will hang up if you configure your keyboard, leave it as it is > for the installation, then reconfigure it later (could be my fault -- > bad choice ?) ; > - the installer mounts ext2 partitions with type usbdevfs, you'll > have to remount them manually before continuing ; > - it refuses to activate a swap partition, but this one could be my > fault (bad type on this very partition ?) ; > - there are a bunch of warnings printed out each time you do > something, but it seems to be harmless ; this all may be true. > - you'll have to write a yaboot.conf by hand, then run mkofboot and > ybin (chroot to /target, then mount /proc, run mkofboot and ybin). but this is NOT. Make System Bootable DOES work on woody boot-floppies. thats the entire point of them. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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