Re: my etch hard drive became unavailable
its back now.
i did a clean sarge install from the current business card image,
followed by upgrade to testing.
very smooth, it only took 2 hours and no need to fiddle with any
configurations. i took a brief pause at sarge to install xcore, window
manager and firefox and test, after a basic install. then changed
sources.list entries from "sarge" to "testing" and ran updates.
(note maybe its experience but when i did this before with a fuller
in-use system i had to fiddle a lot to get from xfree to xorg, but
this time it went right through with the semi-automated stuff,
that is debconf i guess)
moment of panic when it stalled until i gave it permission to
delete contents of /boot. whence i had to manually apt-get vmlinux
and friends. then run ybin.
so i am at 2.6.16-1.
thought i should follow through, end of this thread for me.
brian <cymraegish@yahoo.com> wrote: tried installing last night of daily build
debian-testing-powerpc-net.iso
it was probably not a good idea,
definitely did not work here (pismo w/g4 upgrade).
installation report filed.
not sure what to do. could do what i did before
which is install sarge and upgrade. or wait and try
again when testing netinst is better.
brian
--- brian wrote:
> hi, maybe it just died in its sleep, but maybe not.
>
> i put it in sleep a few days ago and forgot,
> thought
> i had shut it down (sometimes i don't see a
> blinking power led)
> so i hit the power-startup key...
>
> no disk ! none of my mac os or linix utils could
> see the hard
> drive. to mac it was invisible, however booting the
> debian
>
installer, i just got some very brief message about
> the
> disk not responding and it turning the bus off.
>
> lucky i had a (blank) disk on hand and some half
> way recent mac
> backups (including bunch of fink stuff ) --
>
> unlucky i had just gotten to backing up my sarge,
> had not
> suspected this one to go. glad i didn't put this
> disk
> in my older box tho.
>
> probably just my problem, but i thought i should
> check
> anyway -- or caution. i hadn't even backed up my
> personal
> files here, never mind my system, i am going to
> have to say
> its cost me a month or two. luckily i had not been
> using it
> much because of short on space and an old battery.
>
> by the way my trick for backing up should i tell,
> why not.
>
> in the debian installer under manual partitioning
>
there is
> an option to copy. you can go in a shell and use
> parted, but
> that is sort of the hard way. it took me longer to
> get to
> the partitioning step than to do the copy/ restore
> -
> that is it is pretty fast there in the installer
> raw copy.
>
> brian
>
>
>
>
>
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