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Re: Install on 466 MHz G4?



On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 05:42:28PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> Somehow I managed to recently do a potato r3 install, but not install
> a kernel image.  My suggestion is to boot from the CD, using your disk
> as the root filesystem:
> 
> OpenFirmware: boot cd:\\yaboot
> 
> yaboot: debian root=/dev/hda11
> 
> That should at least allow you to boot into Debian and see if you have
> the same problem I did (no kernel image in /boot).  If so, a quick
> 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19' should hopefully do the trick.
> 
> I hope this helps!

Thanks, that did the trick! I was able to complete installation, edit
/etc/yaboot.conf, and to reboot using yaboot. Now I need to get
XFree86 working...

Mark

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