booting from CD on Ti PowerBook

2001-03-26 Thread Colin Walters
Hello, I just got my Ti PowerBook, and I'm trying to install Debian on it, having no use for the proprietary software that came with it. I've made a CD of the non-us 2.2r2 image using the pseudo-image kit and cdrecord. So, I get into OpenFirmware, and then I try using "boot cd:", but that fails

Re: booting from CD on Ti PowerBook

2001-03-26 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> I just got my Ti PowerBook, and I'm trying to install Debian on it, > having no use for the proprietary software that came with it. I've > made a CD of the non-us 2.2r2 image using the pseudo-image kit and > cdrecord. I was just doing this last night > So, I get into OpenFirmware, and then I t

Re: booting from CD on Ti PowerBook

2001-03-26 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
> On my system, after writing out the partition table, the installer > consistently segfaulted, but the partition table did get written, and I > just had to reboot into OF and restart the installer as above. For the wise who understand such things, I misspoke. It's not a segfault I get after savi

Re: booting from CD on Ti PowerBook

2001-03-26 Thread Colin Walters
[ no need to CC me; I am subscribed to the list ] Wilhelm Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So, I get into OpenFirmware, and then I try using "boot cd:", but > > that fails with: > > boot cd:\\yaboot Maybe a note about how to boot from CD using OF could be added to the installation gu

Re: booting from CD on Ti PowerBook

2001-03-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 06:14:22PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > [ no need to CC me; I am subscribed to the list ] > > Wilhelm Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > So, I get into OpenFirmware, and then I try using "boot cd:", but > > > that fails with: > > > > boot cd:\\yaboot > > Ma

Re: booting from CD on Ti PowerBook

2001-03-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 12:35:50PM -0800, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > > mkofboot -b /dev/hdaXX -C /target/etc/yaboot.conf one nit here, this is OK (so long as you edit /target/etc/yaboot.conf first) but if your editing that config you should just change the boot=unconfigured to boot=/dev/hdaXX w