Re: G5 powermac installer queries

2005-11-11 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote: you can use the netinst cd, which will allow you to install a base system without network access, not really goodly named, contrary to businesscard and plain netboot, or the miniiso. Once there, you can download by some other media (other box, mac os, wha

Re: G5 powermac installer queries

2005-11-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 09:49:52PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > >You could try with firewire networking ? > > > No firewire devices here, and no firewire on my other desktops. > > > >Mmm, no X should be used, but i guess this means you didn't get the

Re: G5 powermac installer queries

2005-11-11 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote: You could try with firewire networking ? No firewire devices here, and no firewire on my other desktops. Mmm, no X should be used, but i guess this means you didn't get the language question, right ? Right. Whizzed through the framebuffer, then th

Re: G5 powermac installer queries

2005-11-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 07:04:34PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > > >On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:48:43AM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > >> Hi, me again. > >> > >>I won't have a network connection with kernels < 2.6.14 (I need that to > >>get sungem support for my P

Re: G5 powermac installer queries

2005-11-11 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:48:43AM +, Ken Moffat wrote: Hi, me again. I won't have a network connection with kernels < 2.6.14 (I need that to get sungem support for my PHY), so I'm trying to install from the weekly d-i binary CD 1. This seems to go

Re: G5 powermac installer queries

2005-11-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:48:43AM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > Hi, me again. > > I won't have a network connection with kernels < 2.6.14 (I need that to > get sungem support for my PHY), so I'm trying to install from the weekly > d-i binary CD 1. This seems to go ok until it gets to installing

G5 powermac installer queries

2005-11-10 Thread Ken Moffat
Hi, me again. I won't have a network connection with kernels < 2.6.14 (I need that to get sungem support for my PHY), so I'm trying to install from the weekly d-i binary CD 1. This seems to go ok until it gets to installing yaboot, then it fails with the following messages (sorry about the l