Re: Problem installing WOODY

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

Hello DAINOTTO

Am 05-Sep-02 schrieb DAINOTTO Brothers:

> Hello all !
> 
> I'm a Linux newbie and I'm trying to install a Debian Woody on my
> machine.
> 
> I don't know if it is the appropriate list for a newbie, so, please, forgive
> me if I bother you with my (stupids) questions. Just tell me and I will
> stop posting.

You are absolutely on the right list.

> My config : A1200+BlizzardPPC 603e/240 060/50+BVision+64 Mo ram.
> 1.4 Go IDE disk, SCSI CD-Rom drive, Whippet.

Fine! Maybe kind of small harddisk? ;)

> Now my problem :
> 
> When I try to launch the Debian installer (bootstrap --apus -k linux.bin -r
> root.bin root=/dev/ram
> video=pm2fb:mode:800x600-60)
> 
> I get this message :
> 
> "The kernel will be located at 0x46000000
> Kernel is compressed
> Uncompressing kernel image......................
> 
> Compressed image is too large ! Aborting
> 
> crc errorDecompression error --aborting"

Where did you get the installer from and which kernel are you trying to launch
(I guess you're working with the stuff from taken from the debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/apus/
directory from debian?)? I don't know which bootstrap version is shipped
within this directory (but I guess it's the newest one..). What I did: I took
all the newest stuff directly from the APUS website on sourceforge, say, bootstrap
(aka boothack)
and kernel. Kernel: if you're working with the debian stuff, you're going with
2.2.10. I suggest taking the 2.4.17 or 2.4.18-1 kernel directly from the APUS
website (2.4.18-2 has the cyberstormppc scsi driver built in, but as you are
not needing it anyway and since it's still experimental I would recommend to
first stick with 2.4.18-1 to be "on the save side").

> I have "manualy" uncompressed LINUX.BIN, and then I can launch the
> installer, choose my language, and the machine freeze at the "release
> notes" page (the page is half displayed, no more heartbeat...).
> 
> Does anybody know what is going on ?

Try with the above mentioned stuff: latest bootstrap (boothack) and latest
kernel (2.4.17 or 2.4.18-1).

> Thanks in advance for ANY help.

Good luck!

-- 
Kind regards,
Andi