Re: Daily Etch netinstall build fails installation on G5 iMac - Ethernet not detected

[Mike Hore <mike_hore@aapt.net.au>]

Thanks Ananda,

> Messed up the links there and posted the same one twice, the second one should be:
> http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.powerpc/ch05s01.html#install-drive

Yes, I could probably do this, though I'm fairly new to Linux and never
done a kernel compile.  But I have two running systems on my G5 -- Mac
OSX (with full development setup) and Ubuntu.  I'm sure I could do it
under Ubuntu since it's based on Debian anyway.  But as I'm on holidays
I don't want to take a lot of time -- no need for you to bother.  This
isn't a high priority thing for me -- if I decide I want to do it badly
enough, I'm sure I can figure out how to do it.

Anyway, in the meantime installer is broken, so I did need to notify
people of this.

Cheers,  Mike.


> Ananda
>
>
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 03:05:48 +0000
> Ananda Samaddar <a.k.samaddar@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've never done this but if you're using an Open firmware based machine can you not compile your own kernel and boot off it to install?
> >
> > Here are the relevant sections of the Etch install manual
> >
> > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.powerpc/ch04s05.html#files-newworld
> > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.powerpc/ch04s05.html#files-newworld
> >
> > According to these instructions if you compile a custom vmlinux image and initrd img and copy these over along with other neccessary files you should be able to boot the installer and have the ethernet support you require.  Obviously you can compile the kernel on another PPC machine.  I'd offer to do it for you if you don't have access to such a machine, but I only have a G3 700MHz and it would take 1 1/2 to 2 hours!  If all else fails let me know and I will do so.
> >
> > Ananda 
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:23:11 +0930
> > Mike Hore <mike_hore@aapt.net.au> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > After some private email, I suspect the right driver has simply been 
> > > omitted from the netinstall daily build, so I've submitted a bug report.
> > >
> > > Has anyone else hit this problem, or found a way around it?  I get as 
> > > far as the Ethernet detection, which fails.  I'm presented with a couple 
> > > of options for drivers, but none work.  So I can't proceed beyond this 
> > > point, since I obviously need a network for a netinstall.
> > >
> > > Cheers,  Mike.
> > >
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