Re: Installation on a Cube
On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 02:58, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 10:06:14PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 12:49:59PM -0800, ozymandias G desiderata wrote:
>
> > > There is, however, a workaround, grotty thought it may be. I forked a
> > > shell and created, initialized, and mounted all of the partitions on
> > > the disk by hand. I also had to run mkofboot / ybin by hand from the
> > > shell, as well as hand-crafting a yaboot.conf. So, basically, all the
> > > installer did was give me enough of an environment to get busybox
> > > working, and install the base distribution.
>
> > OK, that seems doable. I had thought I must be missing something - the
> > Cube isn't all that bleeding edge and I was expecting it to work
> > reasonably well out of the box.
>
> I'm typing this from the console on my cube while base-config completes,
> so I guess that worked. Not really what I'd hope for from the woody
> installer, though. I'm not sure where to direct a bug report?
The boot-floppies package or the debian-boot list.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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