OpenFirmware trouble

Hi all, I'm trying to test the new debian-installer CD, but I'm stuck in OF. Last time I played with my G4, I left it in a state where I need to go through OF to boot (meens no automatic booting). I would appreciate if someone could tell me either : - how to boot from OF on d-i cdrom (yaboot i

Re: OpenFirmware trouble

Fabrice Lorrain (home) a écrit : I would appreciate if someone could tell me either : ... - or get back to autobooting the G4 (setenv auto-boot true didn't do the trick). Replying to myself : 0 > setenv auto-boot? true 0 > reset-all as explain in [1] bring back autobooting.

[Fwd: failed install : bf 3.0.17 ppc (powermac)]

Hi, I didn't get much answer in d-boot so I'm forwarding it here. Any idea ? Fab [no CC, thanks] Hi, I tried to install woody (bf 3.0.17) on a G4 this weekend. harware : G4, 400Mhz, 1Go RAM, 2 ide harddrives First try: using an USB floppy drive... Doesn't seem to be supported. Might

Re: [Fwd: failed install : bf 3.0.17 ppc (powermac)]

Chris Tillman wrote: > ... > > > > First try: using an USB floppy drive... > > Doesn't seem to be supported. Might be nice if it were > > written in the "woody install manual". > > > > Nobody's tried it before, AFAIK. I'm not too surprised, those floppies > don't work very well even with MacOS, t

Did anybody succed in installing bf-3.0.17 on a newworld ?

Hi, I'm still trying to install woody, using bf-3.0.17, on my G4 (400Mhz) and it doesn't really work :-( The first stage install (debootstrap) is going ok, but after the first reboot, the system seems to be in a pretty bad shape : - S20modutils: line 11: 32 Segmentation fault depmod -a > /dev/