Re: Installing Debian Lenny on MacMini G4
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 25, 2010, at 11:23 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
>>
>> A third possibilty, though remote, is that the iso was improperly built.
>> I'll verify that myself and get back to you.
>>
>
> I downloaded and burned the iso. I verified the MD5 and compared the burned
> CD with the ISO. All went well. Then I booted it on my own Mac mini G4.
> It booted fine (I used the "C" hold-down method) and started the installer.
> I didn't run any further, because I didn't want to mess up my MacOS-X
> machine, but it at least booted.
>
> So there's no problem with the iso file itself.
Thanks !
Here is what I did on my amd64 box:
$ wget http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.5/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-505-powerpc-netinst.iso
$ md5sum debian-505-powerpc-netinst.iso
86268f3a463460828ec12831d6520df7 debian-505-powerpc-netinst.iso
$ cmp /dev/cdrom debian-505-powerpc-netinst.iso
$ echo $?
0
I would be tempted to say my cdrom was burned ok. To get into more
details see (*).
In summary:
- DVD 1 Tiger 10.4
-> I can boot using C
-> I can boot using Option
-> I can boot using Option+Command+o+f
- Debian 5.0.5 CD-RW
-> I can NOT boot using C
-> I can NOT boot using Option
-> I can NOT boot using Option+Command+o+f
I also tried burning the image on two CD-R, but cmp would failed everytime with:
$ cmp /dev/cdrom debian-505-powerpc-netinst.iso
cmp: /dev/cdrom: Input/output error
However both isovfy and isoinfo were happy with the CD-R
Thanks for any further advices,
--
Mathieu
Ps:
(*)
$ isoinfo -d -i=/dev/cdrom
CD-ROM is in ISO 9660 format
System id: LINUX
Volume id: Debian 5.0.5 ppc Bin-1
Volume set id:
Publisher id:
Data preparer id:
Application id: GENISOIMAGE ISO 9660/HFS FILESYSTEM CREATOR (C) 1993
E.YOUNGDALE (C) 1997-2006 J.PEARSON/J.SCHILLING (C) 2006-2007 CDRKIT
TEAM
Copyright File id:
Abstract File id:
Bibliographic File id:
Volume set size is: 1
Volume set sequence number is: 1
Logical block size is: 2048
Volume size is: 102188
NO Joliet present
Rock Ridge signatures version 1 found
k3b reveals this info about the cdrom (imation cd-rw 80min):
/dev/sr0: ATIP capacity: 79:57:74
(K3bDevice::Device) READ CAPACITY: 22:42:37 other capacity: 79:57:74
DiskInfo:
Mediatype: CD-RW
Current Profile: CD-RW
Disk state: complete
Empty: 0
Rewritable: 1
Appendable: 0
Sessions: 1
Tracks: 1
Layers: 1
Capacity: 79:57:74 (LBA 359849) (736970752 Bytes)
Remaining size: 00:00:00 (LBA 0) (0 Bytes)
Used Size: 22:42:38 (LBA 102188) (209281024 Bytes)
Session | ADR | CONTROL| TNO | POINT | Min | Sec | Frame
| Zero | PMIN | PSEC | PFRAME |
1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | a0 | 0 | 0 | 0
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | a1 | 0 | 0 | 0
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | a2 | 0 | 0 | 0
| 0 | 22 | 44 | 38 |
1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0
| 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | b0 | 255 | 255 | 255
| 3 | 79 | 59 | 74 |
1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | c0 | 44 | 0 | 174
| 0 | 97 | 34 | 24 |
1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | c1 | 204 | 148 | 50
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
(K3bDevice::Device) found invalid bcd values. No bcd toc.
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