Hey guys. I've downloaded all of the floppy images for booting my 9500
into the installer, but whenever I boot with the rescue disk in the
floppy drive, it simply gets spit out. If I insert the disk into the
system while running MacOS 9.1, it gives me a "Filesystem not
recongnized, would you like t
Thanks for setting me straight Chris. But after booting with the
hfs-boot-floppy.img inserted, i still dont get anywhere. You can hear the drive
being accessed, and the tux/mac computer icon comes up, but then my screen goes
black and the floppy is spit out, without a request for root.bin in sight
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I've tried using a different set of floppies, still no dice. So far ive tried 6
different disks, still not getting anywhere.
But just for the hell of it after the hfs boot image floppy was ejected, I threw
the rescue.bin disk in and it was being accessed for a good minute and a half.
I rebooted
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> What kind of video card are you using? I seem to recall a few
> problems with some of the earlier ATI cards.
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I'm using the old 4mb ATI Mach64 card that came with it. New hardware wont go
in until
ive got Debian up and running
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> Ah. Are you using boot images from potato? They don't have video=ofonly
> in the boot arguments, which you might need. Try the woody images instead,
> if these are from the potato archive.
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yeah, i am using the potatoe images. ill give the woody images a shot now
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ok, this just keeps getting better
the woody image did work, and i managed to make it to the installer, but after
picking my keyboard type, no keys register.
...
i chose both extended and standard, no dice.
Any ideas with this one?
and again, thanks for your patience everyone
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> BTW, if the floppy is not the problem; you can work around it temporarily
> by not choosing a keyboard map.
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yeah, thats what ive been doing, its working great. ill dedicate the rest of the
night to the installation, just didnt want to proceed untill i had heard from
someone on the key
Well everything is going well, but the installer cant find the Release
file. Which is odd, ive seen the file myself under os 9.1
anywho, im going to download the woody iso image now in the hope that
ill get better luck.
thanks again guys
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Hey guys. I've finally got potato running on my 9500, but i'm having
trouble getting much farther than the base system. Whenever I try to
install any packages from the installer, i get nothing but a long stream
of cd I/O errors. I ran df and it looks like the system is only
occupying 75 megs of ha
Sadly, no. No net access yet. Hope to have it set up quickly though.
I had thought of a screwy scsi driver, as both the cdrom and disk seem
fine. But how would the base system have been installed without a hitch?
A new kernel may be the way to go, but one of the packages that wasnt
installed comple
Anyway, if you want to check
what the problem may be, you
might like to generate an
image of the CD on disk, mount that
image and then try to install
from there.
I tried it, but i got both a SCSI cd error, and a cd i/o error. Could
this be both a bad cd and a bad
Well ive been at this most of the day, still no dice. I've made another copy of
the first Debian cd and tried to restart the base install. While I do get fewer
errors, I still cant complete the process.
I have tried to copy the iso to hard disk, but that gets cut off even sooner
than using the inst
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> Another idea along the same lines, trying to avoid the CD. I assume
> the downloaded iso file is on one of your mac partitions?
I'd like to, but the iso images are on my RedHat box. This mac is just a fix up
project,
so its only got the 1.2 gb hard drive in it. If I can, im going to try to ge
Hey guys. I've got my 9500 connected to the internet now, but none of the
packages can connect. I've booted into Mac OS 9.1, and the connection is valid,
was was able to open web pages with Netscape Explorer.
But whenever I run base-config, i get timed out. this has happened with both
http and ftp,
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> Probably your nameserver information in /etc/resolv.conf is incorrect.
> Can you ping your nameservers?
The ip addresses in resolv.conf are correct, but when i ping them i get 100%
packet
loss. 100% recieved when i ping localhost though.
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> I think that www.xlr8yourmac.com can solve your problem, but I'm not sure.
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I had a friend who picked up a copy of the mac rom from one of the guys at
macgurus.com. they seem kind of touchy though.
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> What does the file /etc/network/interfaces look like?
iface eth0 inet dhcp
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> Also what does /sbin/ifconfig report?
etholink encap:Ethernet HWaddr **mac address**
inet addr: **ip address** bcase **mask**
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU: 1500 Metric:1
RX pa
Scott Patterson wrote:
> Check your physical connection. Is the ethernet cable connected? Is the
> cable good? I've been burned many times by a loose/bad connection
Yeah, everything seems fine. It was an eBay computer, but just to test it
out I surfed around a bit under the Mac OS. No problems on
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> When you did an 'ifconfig', did your eth0 appear to have a valid IP
> address (i.e. one assigned by your ISP)? It would be strange to be able
> to send/receive data from your ISP's DHCP server, but not their nameserver.
>
yes, its almost identical to the ip address of this computer. seems va
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> sorry I lost the beginning of the thread but check
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> cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all
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> which has to be '1' for successful ping.
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>
Well this raises an interesting problem. vi seems totally shot on the base
install, i cant delete. so i tried to replace it with an icmp_e
One of my devout mac friends brought up an interesting point. the PRAM batterie
on
this machine is shot, could that somehow be corrupting my scsi cdrom reads? none
of the errors seem consistant with each other. ill get an incurable media error
at
one sectore one attempt, then not at the same spot
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> I thought of this because my 5500 has a Tulip built-in card on it, and
> the Linux Tulip driver is b0rked big time, works for a minute or two
> then stops.
I dont have any idea what this could be anymore. Ive scoured usenet, no one
seems to
have had this problem. Id rather get away with not h
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> Have you checked a known-good CD in your drive? Does it work under
> MacOS? If so, it could _still_ be a SCSI cabling problem; its not
> guaranteed that MacOS drives the SCSI bus at the same speed as Linux
> does.
I was going to say the drive was fine, but after you mention it i did get a lo
After taking another shot, i cant ping either of two nameservers.
I really have no idea what configuration files to look at on a debian base
install, does anyone know of anything that might be tripping up the
connection to the name resolution servers?
Thanks again
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> route add default gw dev eth0
..snip..
Ill give it a shot again. Im heading out for a short while, but im a night owl,
so ill post my luck tonight.
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> I know that this may sound absurd, but you could try and do a base
> install with a modem and once you have something working, then switch
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> Do you have a default route?
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Sorry ?
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John:
Yes, i do. i was just about to sent you an email saying no, but after about 2
1/2 minutes the second line showed up.
DestinationGatewayGenmaskFlagsMetric
RefUseIFace
24.128.224.0*blahU
blah
john:
do you know any way i could manualy change this? ifconfig mabey?
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> I suspect that you don't have a default route set. I realize that you
> had problems with the command I suggested:
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> route add default gw dev eth0
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> But it may be worth another try.
I tried it a few more times, but each time i get:
eth0: Host name lookup failure
I'll read up on route
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Sorry guys. Im trying to install on a stock 9500, OSX wont be on there anytime
soon ; )
The ifconfig output:
Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr: ***
inet addr:24.218.255.40bcast:255.255.255.255mask:255.255.248.0
UP BR
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> Also, I have to say -- there is something very odd with the formatting
> of that output.
Yes, im copying off of the screen next to me. But i checked and rechecked,
everys correct
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> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:27:B4:1A:8A
> inet addr:10.1.0.101 Bcast:10.1.0.255
> BTW, where did you get your other "default gateway" id (66.31.248.1) ?
I've got another machine running RedHat (this one). I had figured that sice we
really had no idea what was going on with the mac, it might prove wiser to use a
valid address. In hindsight though, that doesnt really sound too
Yeah, you hit the nail on the head. Right now, untill everything gets together,
im just switching the cable back and forth between machines. But AT&T allows up
to three different machines per account. i figured id do an ip masquerade setup,
but that wont be untill i know i can get the debian machin
Well i've tried a new method of manually configureing the network during
installation, using only numbers i know to be good. (from this machine, bothing
use
the same modem, etc) and that just gets me to the same spot i was before. Im
willing to try get myself to believe that this is one of my own
Hey guys. Well i punched in different addressing information during the
install, and i suppose we have gotten somewhere.
Everything i used came off of the mac OS 9.1 tcp/ip control pannel. So now
instead of timing out when attempting to contact the debian ftp site, i get
a "hostname could not be re
Just a quick one:
Would it be possible to supply the ip address to the debian site in the arp
list ? once the system is sort of installed i mean.
It seems as though i could just pick most of the things i needed it it were
possible.
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Nope, looks good. eth0 and loopback only.
Ive got a few more ideas to try out, ill post my results either later tonight or
early tomarrow. Ive got a sneaking suspicion that ive miss something painfully
obvious, im going to check it out now.
I cant thank you enough for sticking with this though, tha
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> With BootX which kernel should I boot from to install. The 'vmlinux' kernel
> or the 'vmlinux-2.4' kernel. What is the difference?
As far as i can tell, it's preference. try them both, you should be able to pick
one or the other at the bootx prompt.
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> In my install I get as far as ins
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