Re: Problems installing Debian

[John L. <lor...@uk...>]

Hi there

On 26-Feb-02, Bartosz Soko=B3owski wrote:


> Didn't help :-(( Tell me what versions of Debian, bootstrap etc. have
> you got. How large is your hard drive? How are your partitions
> organized? Next strange behavior is when I use mke2fs -c /dev/hda4,
> preparing the filesystem starts but after a whiele (5-10 sec.) I get
> kernel panic :-( Can anyone who have the PowerFlyer describe to me in
> private how he has done the Debian installation?

bootstrap and ppcboot_pup from the bh000629.lha archive, Kernel 2.4.4, =



*To setup a new installation I use the following boot commands:*

cd os2linux:2.4.4/

*The next 2 lines are all on 1 command line:*
bootstrap --apus -k vmapus-2.4.4 -r root.bin root=3D/dev/ram
video=3Dpm2fb:mode:1024x768-70 noscsi 60nsram


I only set up partition size and file system on the miggy side, then the
format, setup etc was done automatically when doing the install from
the cd's. My =

10 Gig hd is set up as follows:

        DH0:    150Meg    PFS\03        Miggy boot

        LX0:    1.8Gig    Identifier  0x4C4E5800    Mask 0x7FFFFFFF
                          MaxTransfer 0x00FFFFFF    block size 1024
                      ** This is the main Linux drive / **

        SW0:    216.5M    Identifier  0x53575000    Mask 0x7FFFFFFF
                          MaxTransfer 0x00FFFFFF    block size 1024
                      ** This is the Swap partition **

        AL0:    500Meg    FFS           Miggy/Linux partition (Can be
see on both systems, so can be used to transfer files, and is mounted
in Linux as /dev/hda4 /mnt/amiga


        DH2:    1.2Gig    PFS\03        Miggy

Plus others not important to linux.

This is using a Power Flyer i/f and only having access to Primary and
Slave on the 1st i/f.        =



If I have missed something ask and I'll see if I can help.


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