First, hello. I'm new to Apple hardware, newish to debian and moderately
competent with Linux. I'm not feeling very competent atm however.
The system is an ibook 900Mhz. I am trying to install Debian testing as the
only OS using the boot CD and a network install.
i have at least one problem but maybe more. They are as follows:
1.) apple_bootstrap partition not created.
2.) No installable kernel.
3.) umount error of /dev/pts and /dev/shm
1.) apple_bootstrap
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The error on partition creation states that no newworld boot partition exists
even if it does. I don't know whether I've been trying to do the right thing
but this has been reported before (judging by Google searching) so I won't
waste your time with a description of my various attempts. Can anyone tell me
in step-by-step idiot speak how to get past this stage?
I attempted to carry on regardless and came up against the following:
2.) No installable kernel
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Sorry I can't reproduce the error in order to state the message exactly but it
went along the lines of:
"No installable kernel can be found in the apt-sources list. If you
want to
continue despite this unusual error......."
3.) umount of /dev/pts and /dev/shm
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Carrying on with carrying on regardless I am now getting:
"The debootstrap program exited with an error (return value 1).
Check /var/log/messages or see virtual console 3 for the details"
cat /var/log/messages gives me:
"umount /target/dev/pts: no such file or directory"
and similar for shm, followed by various other errors in a similar vein.
How do I switch virtual consoles btw? ALT and a function key doesn't seem to
work.
Thanks for your time and (I hope) patience,
Adrian.
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