Problems during Woody install connected to x-surf

[Andreas <an...@po...>]

Hi

Today I wanted to do a Woody installation from the scratch, so I got all the
files needed from the debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/apus/
directory. Well, first boot resulted in a guru, after which I remembered the
get-the-latest-boothack thingy (hmm, shouldn't it be also in the debian
apus directory then?).

The installation afterwards has been quite straight forward, but I got stuck in the
configure network section. The install system complained about that the kernel
did not recognise any network interface at all.

Well, you may think whats the deal, the guy can do
that later too, but this one is quite an important bit for me, because I have
to do installation trough network (connection set up by dhcp, btw. does this
work at all in a that early state?).

It seems as the kernel wouldn't support my x-surf NIC. But I couldn't figure
out which kernel version has been used for this installation (ok, I should have
run dmesg maybe). Is it not possible to use a kernel which supports my x-surf?

I also tried to boot with a 2.4.6 kernel (which supports x-surf), but bootstrap just
complained aobut the ELF header (n.b. this kernel worked toghether with this
bootstrap two weeks ago). Should I have raised stack memory maybe before
running bootstrap?

Well, if don't have a chance to install this way, should I go back to woody
and install using the basedebs on a mounted affs partition? Or should I mirror
the woody tree (well, how many gigs??).

It would be nice if someone could enlighten this situation to me a bit,
because I don't want to go back to SuSE once again (talking about it now for
over a year..).


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Kind regards and all the best (you see I am being dual today),
Andi