Hi rob, sorry for my late reply I was too busy the last two weeks... On Sunday 14 January 2007 10:00, rob rob wrote: > 1.At one point you're asked if you want to install stable, unstable or > testing. Won't this be a problem when sarge becomes old stable. I image the > installation will fail here because it will start installing etch, which > doesn't work with the 2.4 kernel. Hmm, good point. I hope it's actually using sarge and not stable :) (Which you could see in the logs) But if that fails, I could patch the source to s/stable/sarge/ and rebuild the flopppies once etch is out. > 2. There's no warning that you have to use a ext2 file system if you want > to use quik. I know this is a known problem, but I'll say it again in case > someone out there cares since it's a bitch to have to reinstall the base > system on a 275 mhz machine with 96 mb ram. /me nods. > 3. Quik doesn't work. I know this "just happens" on some old world macs, > but I hope that's not my case. I got the following error message: > > This machine is not supported: AAPL,e411MacFisc (no big surprise there) > quik-installer failed with error code 1 I cannot really comment on this, as I dont know your mac (6500). http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/quik/quirks.php says: Requires special: output-device /bandit/ATY,264GT-B load-base may need to be changed to 100000. > I then went over to the terminal and tried running quik both on a chrooted > filesystem and by changing into the /target directory and using the quik -r > /target, both came out with error messages. The first one had something to > do with /proc/cpu not being readable, mount /proc or mount /proc /proc fixes that. > the second one with /dev/hda2 not > being mountable. Thats because of the devfs pathes... > Unfortunately I didn't take any notes on those error messages or exactly > what I did. Those are quite useful to get help :) > I would appreciate any tips on how to get quik working with layer-acht > floppies, just to prove it's possible. I'm away from oldworld hardware at the moment :( > I'm also always up for testing the > ~wouter floppies if there are any changes made there. Cool! regards, Holger
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