wheezy netinst problem on G5 iMac

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

Hi folks,

I've got wheezy running happily on my old 17" G5 iMac, and since I now 
have a "new" 20" machine, I want to set up the same dual-boot setup I 
have on the 17".  So I downloaded the current netinst snapshot, and the 
first stage of the installation went without a hitch, including the 
partitioning.  Then it asked me to reboot into the new system, and 
everything looked normal till it asked me to login.  Then I found there 
was no response from the mouse or keyboard.  I did a hard reboot and 
tried again, but same result.  Is this a known issue?  I'm not sure what 
to do next.

Now that the partitions are set up, would it be better to bypass the 
whole problem by connecting an external drive to the 17" machine and do 
cp -R / <whatever> to just copy the whole system to the external drive, 
and then copy it to my new partition on the 20" machine?  Would this 
work?  And if so, how would I get enough of a running system on the 20" 
machine to do the copy?  Maybe booting off the netinst CD that I burned? 
 Sorry if this is a bit basic, but I'm still a bit of a newbie in this 
area.

Cheers,  Mike.

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          Mike Hore        mike_hore@aapt.net.au
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