Installing Debian 2.2r2 on a Tibook : help needed !

2001-04-12 Thread franck routier
Hello, First of all, I noticed that '=' is often replaced by 't' on this list, when viewed from the html archive. For example, I had a hard time figuring out that 'videotofonly' was in fact 'video=ofonly'... A few P appear as well on the end of the lines. Is it a side effect of using Linux on a

Re: Installing Debian 2.2r2 on a Tibook : help needed !

2001-04-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 02:45:17PM +0200, franck routier wrote: I went thru the installation process (first partition the hard drive, with a Apple_Bootstrap partition first), and before 'Make system bootable', I opened a terminal (apple+right arrow) and installed yaboot (anyway I thought I was

Re: Installing Debian 2.2r2 on a Tibook : help needed !

2001-04-12 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
Hi there, I went thru the installation process (first partition the hard drive, with a Apple_Bootstrap partition first), and before 'Make system bootable', I opened a terminal (apple+right arrow) and installed yaboot (anyway I thought I was installing yaboot) : mkofboot -b /dev/hda9 -m

Re: Installing Debian 2.2r2 on a Tibook : help needed !

2001-04-12 Thread Peter Cordes
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 02:45:17PM +0200, franck routier wrote: Hello, First of all, I noticed that '=' is often replaced by 't' on this list, when viewed from the html archive. For example, I had a hard time figuring out that 'videotofonly' was in fact 'video=ofonly'... A few P appear as

Re: Installing Debian 2.2r2 on a Tibook : help needed !

2001-04-12 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
I have tried to type in the full path to my kernel at the yaboot prompt as well (boot : hd:11,/target/boot/vmlinux-2.2.18pre21), but with no more success... is the full path to your kernel really .../target/boot/... If you are booted into the installer, and your hd11 partition is mounted on

Re: Installing Debian 2.2r2 on a Tibook : help needed !

2001-04-12 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
My boot line in yaboot was originally: hd:11,/boot/vmlinux-2.2.18pre21 oops, I meant of course image line. I wouldn't want to incur Ethan's wrath ;) -raf

Re: Installing Debian 2.2r2 on a Tibook : help needed !

2001-04-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 05:07:30PM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: I had the *exact* same problem with my Pismo installing r2.2. It seems that yaboot has a problem with the symlinked kernel. Therefore, you should add the no it doesn't. you need to set --partition correctly.

Re: Installing Debian 2.2r2 on a Tibook : help needed !

2001-04-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 09:18:02PM +0200, franck routier wrote: --image=/target/boot/vmlinux-2.2.18pre21 (or whatever it is) That worked for me. It didn't work for me :-( im sure it didn't because that --image line is totally bogus and will never work. I have tried to type in

Re: Installing Debian 2.2r2 on a Tibook : help needed !

2001-04-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 04:05:08PM -0700, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: My boot line in yaboot was originally: hd:11,/boot/vmlinux-2.2.18pre21 oops, I meant of course image line. I wouldn't want to incur Ethan's wrath ;) its really not that hard: device=hd: partition=11 image=/vmlinux