Re: powerbook 17" install
you can try it with this web:
http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~schmidtm/apple/powerbook.en.php
It is for powerbook 12 but I think it is similar
Good luck
El dom, 22-06-2003 a las 15:21, Brendan J Simon escribió:
> I've just purchased a powerbook 17". I've tried (unsuccessfully)
> installing debian using various howtos on the Net. I managed to get the
> machine to boot and run the installer using the recent "boot-floppies"
> in the woody distro, but the installer had problems finding any hard
> disks. I decided to extract the kernel from the 2.4.20 deb package and
> give that a go. It works better in that the hard disk is now
> recognisable and I have managed to partition it and initialise the
> partitions using mke2fs and mkswap :)
>
> Unfortunately the installer still doesn't recognise any partitions to
> mount, neither swap nor linux partitions. One thing I noticed which was
> different to previous installs I've performed on earlier model
> powerbooks and powermacs is that the hard disk is /dev/hdc and the
> dvd/cd is /dev/hda. I always have experienced it being the other way
> around. Could this be a problem during manufactur of the powerbook?
> ie. hard disk plugged into secondary master and dvd/cd plugged into
> primary master IDE interface by mistake or is this the way all new
> powerbooks come? Maybe it's something to do with booting dvds???
> Anyway, I assume the new installer doesn't search for mount partitions
> on /dev/hdc, and if so, needs to be fixed (especially if my setup is the
> norm).
>
> Any ideas where to go from here???
>
> For some reason I can't nfs mount an intel box to copy my backup fs to
> my new partitions. wget fails too. I think this is because the .tgz
> file is 3.1GB and the busybox version of wget is not so capable. I have
> a macosx partition so I should be able to copy the file to it and
> hopefully I might be able to find a ext2/3 driver for macos so I can
> unarchive the .tgz files to my linux partition. Any one know of such a
> driver ???
>
> Please CC to me as well as the list.
> Many thanks,
> Brendan Simon.
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