Re: how to report on G5
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 08:07:18AM -0700, Brian wrote:
> I've been trying to install Debian onto my G5. I'd like to
> report my attempts. How should i go about doing that.
debian-boot may well be better than debian-powerpc.
> In general i tried daily/powerpc/20040627/
> sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso. install-power4 leads to a
> problem with the floppy. Using expert-power4 i can
> circumvent it. However the fans still rev up.
>
> I tried to modprobe therm_pm72. But even after mounting
> the cd i couldn't find the module.
Is therm_pm72 essential to the installation?
> Reading the kernel Changelogs i see that BenH applied a
> fix to the 2.6 kernel. So i tried expert-power4-2.6. This
> leads to a hang at:
> Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 8 ports, IRQ
> sharing disabled.
daily is sarge_d-i, which is old.
> I tried testing/sid_d-i/powerpc/20040627/
> sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso
>
> install-power4-2.6 leads to a hang when it asks for which
> language i want to use. I think i've read this before as a
> keyboard problem.
USB keyboard, right? Jens and I talked about this on IRC yesterday and I
checked in a fix. I've just uploaded usb-discover 0.18 which should fix
this when it makes it into CD images.
> install-power4 leads to the floppy problem.
That was a problem with the initrd builds. It should be fixed now, so
the next sid_d-i build should have it fixed.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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