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Re: Problems booting for the first time, Titanium PowerBook

Thans, Chris
Running the risk of asking the obvious; is there a single package containing all necessary files for installing woody, including yaboot etc? I'm booting from hard disk and there was such a package for 2.2r5. 

Thanks,

/Dimitris

On Saturday, March 16, 2002, at 05:07 , Chris Tillman wrote:


On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 03:56:22AM +0100, Dimitris Dimitriadis wrote:
Hopefully I don't iterate things that have been said already (there is a 
very similar recent thread, but it didn't explicitly say what to do).

I've installed 2.2.r5 from the net, following the appropriate
instructions. In order to be albe to install to begin with, I remember
adding 'novideo' to yaboot.conf in the installation files (I downoladed
the floppy images) as the plain .onf file rendered my output useless
(described below). Adding novideo straightened things out.

I then installed debian without problems to a new partition, went very
smoothly. I also wrote the appropriate files to the bootstraps partition 
(as per the instruction document), and the systems boots, as it should,
with debian by default.


I don't think the Titanium Powerbook is well supported with the 2.2
kernel.  Try the new-powermac flavor available in the woody branch
(see the url in my .sig for the install manual).

(Colin/Matt, we need to make a list of hardware for which we would
highly recommend new-powermac, and I'll alter the list in the manual
accordingly).

A straw man (any new models missing that have been tested?):

  Model Name/Number                                 Architecture
  ----------------------------------------------    ---------------

  Apple
    iMac Bondi Blue, 5 Flavors, Slot Loading        powermac-NewWorld
    iMac Summer 2000, Early 2001                    powermac-NewWorld
    iBook, iBook SE                                 powermac-NewWorld
    iBook Dual USB                                  new-powermac
    iBook2                                          new-powermac
    Power Macintosh Blue and White (B&W) G3     powermac-NewWorld
    Power Macintosh G4 PCI, AGP, Cube               new-powermac
    Power Macintosh G4 Gigabit Ethernet             new-powermac
    Power Macintosh G4 Digital Audio, Quicksilver   powermac-NewWorld
    PowerBook G3 FireWire Pismo (2000)              powermac-NewWorld
    PowerBook G3 Lombard (1999)                     powermac-NewWorld
    PowerBook G4 Titanium                           new-powermac


Also, I wonder (probably too late) if we could come up with a better
name. It's like the servers in my office, we got a new server and we
would call it NewBase or NewScan etc, then what do you do when you get
another new server? We already have NewWorld, I can see a lot of
confusion developing a short ways down the road.

powermac-G4? but it will work fine on lesser computers.
powermac-2002?
powermac-2.4?

Which reminds me, is the bf2.4 flavor also going to be available for
powerpc? That would be a lot of overlap. Maybe we should really get
into the bf2.4 camp.

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|            Chris Tillman        tillman@voicetrak.com          |
|                   May the Source be with you                   |
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