Re: Newbie installation questions
...and if it doesn't find the yaboot file, also point to the exact location of
the yaboot.conf for that cd
If i remember right, it is [path]yaboot.conf
e.g.
boot cd:, /install/yaboot.conf
On Tuesday 21 January 2014 15:00:24 gw [j] iza [b] superstar wrote:
> 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/curr
> > en t/images/powerpc/hd-media/ I downloaded
> >
> > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.3.0/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-7.3.0-po
> > we
> >
> > 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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