On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 12:12:57PM +0100, Markus Nicolussi wrote:
Hello!
i sucked the ppc-devel-tree to my hd, set up a NFS server for the downloaded files 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?
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.
That's what happens to me if i try to install on the PowerMacG3 (350MHz), 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.
Does anybody have experience with this topic and could give me a hint? Or can anybody tell me what to do or where it's documented how i can install FC-3 on Macs? I have a PowerMac G3 (350MHz) and it's really important that i install fedora there...
Mac is not a "supported" release yet - so you'll have to be prepared to take the rough with the smooth.
Paul