Re: failed to install a debian netinst (etch) on an old G4 (400mhz)

2005-12-08 Thread Nicolas Hognon
Charles Plessy wrote: > In my case, I had a similar problem and I actually reformatted the partition 2 in hfs+ format using the osX installation disk. Actually, as the partition tables did not look exactly the same, I re-partitionned the whole drive, to be on the safe side (this means re-install

Re: failed to install a debian netinst (etch) on an old G4 (400mhz)

2005-12-07 Thread Nicolas Hognon
> I think that you have to tell partman that the partition #2 is a neworld bootstrap partition. Just select its as if you wanted to put a filesystem on it, bootstrap is in the list. Partman will then format it, and yaboot should cease to complain. ok ... it seems a good solution bu if I sele

failed to install a debian netinst (etch) on an old G4 (400mhz)

2005-12-07 Thread Nicolas Hognon
Hello, I already succeed to install a debian netinst on my pc. Recently I get an old power mac G4 with mac os 9 ... so I try to install a debian netinst from a bootable cd on it. But it failed during installation of yaboot. I not familiar with mac and their partition system ... perhpas the probl