Re: iBook install: failing to see hard drive
On Oct 20 2002, gremio@ai.mit.edu wrote:
> I also have the combo drive, I'm sorry if I said something else.
> And I have no trouble booting the machine with a cd in the drive,
> which it will happily ignore unless I hold down 'c', as usual. Is
> that what you meant by "can't be booted with a CD in the drive"?
Well, as I understand it, some people have reported that they
can't install woody if they load the kernel from the CD,
pressing 'c' right after the chime.
This is all hear-say from people reporting problems on the
list.
One workaround for that would be to drop the kernel, yaboot,
yaboot.conf and root.bin etc onto a hfs partition (like what
<http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html> says) and
bootstrap the installation from there, using Open Firmware's
prompt.
I don't know if you can continue to use the install CDs for
grabbing the deb packages after the installation starts.
> I don't mind where I install from, but if I've booted off the hard
> drive, I won't be able to install onto it,
Well, that's not exactly true, since Linux uses a ramdisk for
the basic install after it boots the system...
Hope this helps, Roger...
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