Hi, On Monday 10 January 2005 17:17, Russell McManus wrote: > Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Monday 10 January 2005 03:17, Russell McManus wrote: > >> I've got a 9600/MP running yellow dog linux, that I'd like to upgrade > >> to sarge. But I had some trouble with the sarge install cd, which I > > According to your message, your network card (mace) was not > > detected. But you didn't tell which version of the debian-installer > > you've tried. Did you try the release candidate 2 from > > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer ? (it has support for > > the mace driver.) > I downloaded an install iso from that site, not sure exactly which > one. The md5 sum of the iso I used is: > > MD5 (sarge-powerpc-1.iso) = a618fe6371390f2673b729ce673c3715
Well, this is the first cd of a full cd set. But I have no idea which one and google also doesn't know that md5-sum. > I couldn't find md5 sums for the iso's that are available to nail down > exactly which one I used. To be safe, you could just download a netinstall-image of rc2, it's only ~200mb. > > If your system can only boot from floppy, you could also try > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-powerpc/rc2/ima > >ges/powerpc/floppy-2.4/ > Thanks for the pointer. I haven't tried floppy booting, but I don't > think that will help, because the problem is not booting, but later on > during the install process. I'm pretty sure this is fixed in rc2. > Could the problem be related to the fact that I have an add-on pci NIC > inside the case in addition to the mc0 on-board interface? Maybe, dunno. For testing purposes you could unplug it :) > Thanks for taking the time to reply, much appreciated, > -russ you're welcome. If rc2 doesn't help, you should try to post on debian-boot@, this is the mailing list for the new installer. Alternativly, you could send a bug report (package: debian-installer). regards, Holger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
