Re: Simplest installation on ibook 366, ppc-cooker, floppyless.

2002-10-04 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 10:17 AM, Stew Benedict wrote: >>> If you have devfs=mount in your yaboot, you shouldn't need the links, >>> they're created dynamically. Otherwise, probably a broken MAKEDEV >>> or dev >>> rpm. There was a lot of this occuring during x86 cooker betas. >> >> B

Re: Simplest installation on ibook 366, ppc-cooker, floppyless.

2002-10-03 Thread Ben Reser
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:17:11PM -0400, Stew Benedict wrote: > Great! I'm not sure why you're seeing the issue with devfs, I was running > it until my machine died, and I think vdanen is too, but he's out of town > and his machine is off at the moment, so I can't check. Perhaps just not > full

Re: RE: Simplest installation on ibook 366, ppc-cooker, floppyless.

2002-10-03 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If you have devfs=mount in your yaboot, you shouldn't need the links, > > they're created dynamically. Otherwise, probably a broken MAKEDEV or dev > > rpm. There was a lot of this occuring during x86 cooker betas. > > Bingo! I did a fresh-format

Re: RE: Simplest installation on ibook 366, ppc-cooker, floppyless.

2002-10-03 Thread pascal.gagnon
> If you have devfs=mount in your yaboot, you shouldn't need the links, > they're created dynamically. Otherwise, probably a broken MAKEDEV or dev > rpm. There was a lot of this occuring during x86 cooker betas. Bingo! I did a fresh-formated-cooker install then I reboot in rescue, change devfs

Re: RE: Simplest installation on ibook 366, ppc-cooker, floppyless.

2002-10-02 Thread Stew Benedict
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I think I'm lost on what you're trying to accomplish. Working 8.2 or > > cooker? As I said, cooker will have issues. I doubt kde or gnome will be > > fully functional, as a number of the needed files are not present on the > > mirrors. You

Re: RE: Simplest installation on ibook 366, ppc-cooker, floppyless.

2002-10-02 Thread pascal.gagnon
> > I think I'm lost on what you're trying to accomplish. Working 8.2 or > cooker? As I said, cooker will have issues. I doubt kde or gnome will be > fully functional, as a number of the needed files are not present on the > mirrors. You should be able to get a functional command line environ

RE: Simplest installation on ibook 366, ppc-cooker, floppyless.

2002-10-01 Thread Stew Benedict
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Pascal Gagnon wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Vincent Danen wrote: > > > > A couple of problems with what you're trying to do: > > > > 1) The mirrors installer does not reflect the state of the final 8.2 > > installer image. I was never able to update it at the end of the cy

RE: Simplest installation on ibook 366, ppc-cooker, floppyless.

2002-10-01 Thread Pascal Gagnon
> On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Vincent Danen wrote: > > A couple of problems with what you're trying to do: > > 1) The mirrors installer does not reflect the state of the final 8.2 > installer image. I was never able to update it at the end of the cycle, > as I don't have direct write access. > 2) The RP

Re: Simplest installation on ibook 366, ppc-cooker, floppyless.

2002-09-30 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Ben Reser wrote: > On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 06:18:20PM -0400, Stew Benedict wrote: > > I could do an installer only ISO, at about 100MB or so. Problem is > > where to host it. We did do this some time back during the 8.0 beta > > period. > > I'll be happy to put it on my M

Re: Simplest installation on ibook 366, ppc-cooker, floppyless.

2002-09-30 Thread Ben Reser
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 06:18:20PM -0400, Stew Benedict wrote: > I could do an installer only ISO, at about 100MB or so. Problem is > where to host it. We did do this some time back during the 8.0 beta > period. I'll be happy to put it on my Mandrake-ppc tree. This ISO would certainly be somet

Re: Simplest installation on ibook 366, ppc-cooker, floppyless.

2002-09-29 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Vincent Danen wrote: > > On Sunday, September 29, 2002, at 10:59 AM, Pascal Gagnon wrote: > > >> Re-burn the 8.2 install CD and boot from it. You should be able to > >> tell it to do FTP, NFS, etc. installs and this might work (I can't be > >> 100% sure as it might still

Re: Simplest installation on ibook 366, ppc-cooker, floppyless.

2002-09-29 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sunday, September 29, 2002, at 11:21 AM, Pascal Gagnon wrote: > If I try a "install-text" then a "ftp server" with ADSL I get: > > "needs ppp_generic > file-not-found-in-archive ppp_generic.o > warning, insmod failed (ppp_generic (null)) (2) > have to insmod ppp_async > needs ppp_async > file

Re: Simplest installation on ibook 366, ppc-cooker, floppyless.

2002-09-29 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sunday, September 29, 2002, at 10:59 AM, Pascal Gagnon wrote: >> Re-burn the 8.2 install CD and boot from it. You should be able to >> tell it to do FTP, NFS, etc. installs and this might work (I can't be >> 100% sure as it might still be looking for 8.2 packages). > > I re-burn the 8.2 inst

RE: Simplest installation on ibook 366, ppc-cooker, floppyless.

2002-09-29 Thread Pascal Gagnon
origine- > De : Pascal Gagnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Envoyé : 29 septembre, 2002 12:59 > À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Objet : RE: Simplest installation on ibook 366, ppc-cooker, floppyless. > > > > > Re-burn the 8.2 install CD and boot from it. You should be able to > &

RE: Simplest installation on ibook 366, ppc-cooker, floppyless.

2002-09-29 Thread Pascal Gagnon
> Re-burn the 8.2 install CD and boot from it. You should be able to > tell it to do FTP, NFS, etc. installs and this might work (I can't be > 100% sure as it might still be looking for 8.2 packages). I re-burn the 8.2 install CD. Still didn't boot. After some google research, i did a full-rese

Re: Simplest installation on ibook 366, ppc-cooker, floppyless.

2002-09-28 Thread Vincent Danen
On Saturday, September 28, 2002, at 11:02 AM, Pascal Gagnon wrote: > I really would like to bring gnome2 and other mdk9 stuff on my > girlfriend’s iBook 366. > Is it possible to burn a simple install-image on a CD (like for a > floppy) to make a ftp install (to download only the necessary)or