Re: Sarge installer without physical media

[Yannick Patois <patois@calvix.org>]

Hi,

Yannick Patois wrote:
> I've an Apple ibook G4 that I have to reinstall under debian.
> the Sarge installer to perform my installation.
> I read the installation instructions there:
> http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.powerpc/ch04s05.html#files-newworld
> BUT the installer keeped asking for some "ISO" image I of course didnt had.

> NOTE: It might be that the network card is not recognised. If I go to
> the console (after booting the installer) I dont see any eth0 in
> ifconfig, and there is only "lo" in /proc/net/dev; however the ethernet
> card is the standard SunGEM card found in every ibook, so I dont
> understand...

I finally created a netinstall CD for sarge-rc3, and now the network
come up fine.

I would suggest SunGEM driver to be shipped with the HD-install kernel
as it is in every ibook I know.
Where should I post that remark ?

Thanks.

	Yannick

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