Re: Installing Debian on an iMac G5 - stable and testing d-i fail

[Eduardo Trápani <mapache@debian.org>]

Hi,

Well, I downloaded 
http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc64/netboot64/ 
and put it in an tftp server and set up dhcp.

After a while I figured out that I needed to do: boot 
enet:a.b.c.d,yaboot (and not simply boot enet:0 that does not work).

Yaboot started alright, but the kernel loading failed.  The problem? 
The buffer size that yaboot uses for tftp downloading is only 4M.  So, I 
downloaded the source package yaboot, changed the parameter and compiled 
it again, and then ... it booted!  Thanks Sven!

I left the machine running, at the downloading packages stage, but it 
got stuck at 69%.  I don't know why.  I will try the whole process again 
tonight (the machine is somewhere else), but so far it looks good!

Eduardo.


>>>
> On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 04:09:55PM -0300, Eduardo Trápani wrote:
>
> > > Can you try booting the daily builds ? These are at : 
> > >
> > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc64/netboot64/
> > >
> > > or :
> > >
> > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc64/cdrom64/
> > >
> > > Get the initrd.gz and vmlinux on a cd or tftp boot server, write the 
> > > adequate
> > > yaboot.conf, and try them out.
> >
> > So, I download both files, put them in the install/power4 directory of 
> > the cd image I already have and then I create a bootable CD.  Is that 
> > right?  I don't know how to create a bootable CD, I hope I find a howto 
> > on that for powerpc.
>
>
> You need yaboot and a suitable yaboot.conf too, i guess.
>
> Look at debian-cd source code for the suitable mkisofs flags.
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther