Re: Debian 3.0 on an Amiga PPC 603e

[Andreas <aw...@sw...>]

Hi Siegfried

Am Sonntag, 15-Jun-03 um 22:02:43 schrieb Siegfried Podesser:

> I'm a writer for the amiga Magazine amigaFututre (www.amigafuture.de)
> and i had to write an linux installation article for my magazine.
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> So here is my problem i had downloaded the actually stuff from apus
> sourceforge for the installation and the linux installation boots from
> my amiga. the first part of the installation works fine but when he
> checks the debain

Umm, I thinks it's deb*ia*n.. ;)

> cdrom (that works also fine, he finds the files he
> need) the he tried to make the boot disks. This happend in an error
> where he writes he could't make the disks and after that he says he
> would install the main files for the debian linux system on my amiga

Hmm, I think you should really skip the boot disk step. I don't even
know if this would produce something sensible if it would work, since
you basically need to have some amiga stuff to boot into AmigaOS, and
from there you can go on starting the linux kernel via boothack.

I heavily doubt that the debian installer is going to provide all the
Amiga utilities to boot. I guess this step is basically made for powerpc
machines capable of booting the linux kernel directly from OpenFirmware
or some other entity, using yaboot or quick/miboot.

> ... and than he says he couldn't "unmount" (in german aush=E4ngen) the
> "/instmnt" partition and therefore he goes back in the installation
> prozess to the point where i can decide from with source i would
> install.

As said above, skip the boot disks step by navigating down through the
list of the available installation steps (via scroll down, i.e. "pfeil
nacht unten Taste"), and go to the next sensible step after the make boot
disk step!!

> can anybody help me please to solve this problem... thanks a lot!
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> bye siegfried

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Best wishes,
Andi