Re: Questions about install procedure

2000-02-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, Feb 7, 2000, John Murden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having the same difficulties trying to install on an iBook running OS 8.6. And I'm using BootX 1.2b3. On the ibook, you should use yaboot.

Re: Questions about install procedure

2000-02-07 Thread Hahn Rossman
I'm attempting install on a Beige G3 desktop with an xrl8 466mhz cpu. It has an IDE drive, a scsi-2 drive, and a ultra2W on a pci controller. I've been trying to use BootX, which cant find the livefilesysytem and then drops me into the Redhat installer which can't find the packages to install. I

Re: Questions about install procedure

2000-02-07 Thread John Murden
I've been trying to use BootX, which can't find the livefilesysytem and then drops me into the Redhat installer which can't find the packages to install. I'm having the same difficulties trying to install on an iBook running OS 8.6. And I'm using BootX 1.2b3.

Re: Questions about install procedure

2000-02-07 Thread Nelson Abramson
Jefferson Provost wrote: What version of BootX are you running? I had the same problem on a G3 Powerbook running MacOS 9. The nearest I can figure, BootX 1.1.3 is incompatible with MacOS 9 and/or systems w/ ATA/IDE disks. I got BootX 1.2b3 and things worked fine. The issue, AFAIK is

Questions about install procedure

2000-02-06 Thread Hahn Rossman
Hello all- I'm having difficulty with the terse instructions for installing the ppc port of debian. That I found at http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac Is there a more detailed set of instructions for the PPC install somewhere else?!? My specific problem with the above is when

Re: Questions about install procedure

2000-02-06 Thread Doug Dawson
At 8:39 AM -0800 2/6/00, Hahn Rossman wrote: I'm having difficulty with the terse instructions for installing the ppc port of debian. That I found at http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac Is there a more detailed set of instructions for the PPC install somewhere else?!? My specific

Re: Questions about install procedure

2000-02-06 Thread Logan Hall
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Hahn Rossman wrote: Hello all- I'm having difficulty with the terse instructions for installing the ppc port of debian. That I found at http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac Is there a more detailed set of instructions for the PPC install somewhere else?!?