Hei paul! hei everybody!
...and burned boot.iso from the dir "mac". The boot cd booted but it found no network device.
This can happen as the device isn't visible in PCI without being active IIRC.
If you manually select sungem from the driver list does it work?
sungem is not the prob. automatic detection works on the ibook (built 2001), i can have a network connection there. It finds my nfs tree and loades stage 2 but then suddenly doesn't go further.
but at the PowerMacG3 -- which should work with the bmac driver -- there I don't i cannot get the network connection to work even when i mannually select the driver. The automatic detection doesn't work at all.
but with the bmac driver. alt Alt+F4 it says: <7> divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 <6> eth0: BMAC+ at 00:05:02:61:a3:51 so i guess anaconda could load the driver. but it doesn't go further then. It just keeps me asking to select a driver...
Ah ok this is a bug, I've not been able to track down yet.
Can i SOMEHOW help you to find this crazy bug??? you see i'd do nearly EVERYTHING to get FC3 running on this mac. (It would be like heaven for the jouth house i want to do it... !!!) but i am no programmer. i mean i was, but only on windows and that's jears ago. but i have still have some basic understanding... Si if thetre is anything i can do PLEASE TELL ME!!!
If i burn the FC3 PPC development tree on an DVD, boot with a CD and select "CD-ROM" as Installation method, anaconda tells me that it didn't find >
a FC CD that fits to my boot CD. That's allready a bit more than i got
with my first try (DVD without ".disc-info", without "SRPMS" and named other than "FC-3 ppc"). There it said that it didn'T find a FC CD. my second DVD should be OK, the only dir that didn't fit onto the dvd was "debug" but i read in the howto, that i don't need it. so what's wrong?
This happens if the .discinfo timestamp does not match the stage 2 image - are you sure it's from the same tree - the boot.iso needs to match the stage2.
No, i guess the tree is under steady development, they change something nearly every day. I tried to be up-to-date by comparing all the directories with my ftp-prog (gFTP) but maybe something went wrong. I will do a complete new download all in one day...
Mac is not a "supported" release yet - so you'll have to be prepared to take the rough with the smooth.
Any idea when fedora will have the ressources to make ppc an offical releas? I mean, if there are to less people: I could participate by testing...
thankx so far and ciao, nico.
ps. at the moment i am in the czech republik. this is 1000 km far away from the macs i spoke of. but in 2 weeks i will be there again (in austria) and then i will work a lot on this topic. so please be patient for 2 weeks.