Re: Newbie installation questions
Hi Geoff,
Maybe you thought of this, but now that you have burned a cd anyway,
at the openfirmware prompt do like:
boot cd:, yaboot.conf
...then within Debian installer during the partitioning section you can select
the drive you want to install to, and make sure the Apple_bootstrap [bootable
flag on, /mac partition] is there, also
?
JB
On Friday 17 January 2014 01:57:54 Geoff Down wrote:
> Hello all,
> I'm new to the list and to Linux as well, please be patient if I ask
> foolish questions.
> I'm trying to install DebianPowerPC_wheezy on a PowerMac G4 OSX10.4. It
> has two hard drives, so I wiped the unused one (disk0) and created an
> HFS partition (disk0s2) into which I copied vmlinux, initrd.gz, yaboot
> and yaboot.conf from
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-powerpc/curren
> t/images/powerpc/hd-media/ I downloaded
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.3.0/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-7.3.0-powe
> rpc-CD-1.iso to the root directory of my OSX hard-drive (disk1s10 I think).
> The md5 matches that on the website.
> I rebooted the Mac into the Open Firmware prompt booted from disk0
> using 'boot hd:2,yaboot'. That works, although there is a warning about
> the filesystem being HFS rather than Apple_Bootstrap. I started the
> installer with 'install'.
> When I came to the 'scan hardware for ISO image' step, it could not
> find the ISO on disk1 (alias sdb) - I could see it was searching the
> top few directories of that volume but it didn't see the ISO.
> So I burnt the ISO to a CD-ROM, and tried again. At the same step it
> failed to see the ISO when scanning automatically. I went into the shell
> provided and checked that there was '/dev/cdrom' listed. The output of
> dmesg also listed the CD-drive. The troubleshooting tip from the manual
> of checking /proc/ide/cdrom or whatever for settings involving DMA was
> not possible - there is no such directory nor any file called 'settings'
> under /proc.
> When I manually entered '/dev/cdrom' into the ISO search tool, it
> eventually found the ISO:
> '[cdrom] /dev/cdrom (stable-7.3)'
> which suggests to me that it can read the device ok. But when I
> confirmed that was the ISO I want to use, it just went back to the 'ISO
> not found' page.
> a) What am I doing wrong please?
> In a previous attempt I got the installer to see an ISO in a different
> partition *on the same hard disk* (disk0) as the installer. But I
> aborted that install at the partitioning stage as I assumed that the ISO
> image would in fact be destroyed in the partitioning process, leaving
> the installation hanging.
> b) Was I right? Or can you install from an image on the same hd?
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Geoff Down
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