Pleasant install of Etch-Testing daily-snapshot with firewire
I just wanted to say thanks and share my experiences with the latest
Etch-Testing snapshot on my Rev-A G5 iMac on an external, bootable,
firewire 400 drive. I'm having a good time with it and look forward to
more involvement with the Debian community as time goes on.
I'm running:
Linux debian 2.6.18-3 -powerpc64 #1 smp
Partitioning miscalculation - Guided partitioning thought my firewire
drive was 429 Gb, when in fact it is only a little 40gB drive. I had to
resort to manual partitioning to feed it some sane values. I suspect
the drive is misrepresenting itself - it is a recently purchased
"G-drive" that I got from the Apple store. Quiet - cute.
(I got the drive to boot by writing my own yaboot.conf file for it with
openfirmware paths, and "blessing" it by placing the new yaboot.conf
into the /etc directory of a bootable distro on my internal drive and
running ybin from there. Works and boots like a champ now.)
During install, the fans were nice and quiet. Afterwards, I had to
append windfarm to the /etc/modules to quiet them again.
Noticed that I am using eth1 instead of eth0. ?
So far I'm still at a terminal getting the hang of the distribution
system and have a lot of good reading ahead of me.
I like what I see so far! Thanks
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