Re: Debian-ppc and G3-Lombard

2000-01-12 Thread Matt Knopp
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 03:41:34PM +, Sergio Brandano wrote: > > There is a new home page for installing Debian. > See http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac Right, but its not actually that useful. The directions there assume that the boot disk (root1440.bin) actually works. Given

Re: Debian-ppc and G3-Lombard

2000-01-12 Thread Sergio Brandano
There is a new home page for installing Debian. See http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac Sergio

Re: Debian-ppc and G3-Lombard

2000-01-11 Thread Matt Knopp
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 05:21:44PM -0600, Kevin Puetz wrote: > The system works fine, what 'unsupported' is the install floppy. You'll have > to start with tar -xzvpf base_2_2.tgz, and proceed from there (hope you've > done debian before). Ah, okay. I assume I can use the rescue floppy as a ramd

Debian-ppc and G3-Lombard

2000-01-11 Thread me
I was trying to install -current on my lombard; all and all nothing was all that complicated to get going. You must boot with no video driver or the kernel will hang. Unfortuantly it got as far as the Installer, which promptly told me that my PPC Arch was unsupported at this time. I'm a littl