Sorry its me again.....

A total linux newbie I bought the v2 image
installer DVD and so far havent been able to
get even one version of linux up and running.


The debian Sarge that i got with my PEGII
dies 2/3 of the way thru installing..

Yep i did follow the quickstart guide, but
i think it needs updating cos it only talks about
pegasos 1 and debian woody not Pegasos II
and debian sarge...

I downloaded YDL 4 and that copies the image
of ydl to hd and just hangs doing nothing

I also downloaded the gentoo live cd
which mistakenly i thought was going to
boot into a graphical installer - but is all text and as a linux complete newb i cant face it.

Is there any EASY install of linux which loads
a bootloader on the same partition as the one that holds boot.img for MOS????

Can anyone help me out ???

I am just dying with these failed linux installs.

Ive just downloaded Mandrake Linux 10.1 ppc
but just worked out there is no bootloader for
it.

And whats with the image installer guys
documentation .... it doesnt tie up with
stuff on the dvd..

All In all Linux PPC seems like a Black Art..


If I had enough of it I would be tearing my hair out.......

Regards

Niteman1969

Hi Niteman1969
The easyest Linux to install on a Pegasos II is Debian netinstall.
If you have a broadband connection, download this installer.
http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/daily/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-chrp.initrd
Put vmlinuz-chrp-initrd in your boot partition.
And type in OF
boot hd:0 vmlinuz-chrp-initrd

nels

Niteman, this may help you :)

http://www.ppczone.org/modules/xoopsfaq/index.php?cat_id=1#1

niteman1969...how can you managed to do that?
I found YDL the easiest way to install Linux from CD.
And personally Debian is the best and easiest OS to install by Network....

@nels664868: vmlinuz-chrp.initrd seems to be buggy: it "runs" in the
sense that the prompt made its anim (-/|\-...) but after, - and
nothing happens... :(

No Debian netinstall for now! :((

@ Elric : The installer that I pointed to was a daily build.
The last that I used was from Oct 3 2004 and that one worked fine.

nels

PS the Linux site for Pegasos is 'www.ppczone.org'.

Hello,

I tried to install the YDL distrib I fetched on Terrasoftsolutions web site and it did not work ))

So I booted the Pegasos on the CD-rom by typing the following command line (as explained in the YDL install guide found with the ISO image on terrasoftsolutions web site):

boot /pci/ide/cdrom@1,0 ydl-install root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk=22000 rw

The CD-Rom is activated, some text is displayed - RAM addresses I guess, along with the mention 'CD-ROM' and 'LINUX'.

And then it hangs up (no feedback on keyboard entries and the CD-ROM is released)...

The guide reads 'The image will be loaded off the CD into memory, and boot into the installer'. Does it take a long time to do that? (maybe I reset too quickly thoug hI waited for about one minute I guess - I decided to reset because the CD-ROM wasn't in activity anymore).

Here is my config:

Pegasos II G4 - 512 Mbytes RAM - Voodoo 3

Is there somebody who succeeded in installing YDL on a similar config? (Peg II +G4+512 Mbytes RAM)

Other question:

YDL requires three partitions:

- Boot partition
- Swap partition
- YDL partition

I have prepared two partitions for linux but what about the boot partition? Later in the guide they tak about a SmartOF boot menu (p. 12) created during the installation. In case there was a previous installation, the SmartOF boot menu is updated.

I have MorphOS 1.4.2 already installed. Do I have to prepare a third partition for YDL installation or will it add a new entry to the current boot partition?

[ Edited by Taerwin on 2004/11/2 16:14 ]

Taerwin ===>>>> www.ppczone.org

Whole section on YDL install...

R&B

@ bbrv

Could not find the YDL tutorial on ppczone.org...Aren't you refering to the one on amipeglin.de.vu? It is targeted at Pegasos I and I want to install the YDL on my Pegasos II...

@Taerwin: The Boot partition is of course the one you already have for
Morphos... :)

On my side, waiting for Computer City to permise my download of the
Image_InstallerV2's images that should be on the DVD i bought since
three weeks, I attempt to download for now and install probably
tomorrow, the sarge-pegasos1-netinst-2004.10.25.iso (?thanks
nels664868 for the piece of link! ;) ?)...

Veni, vidi, ....???!

Little update for the compete link:
http://people.debian.org/~luther/pegasos/


[ Edited by Elric on 2004/11/2 21:13 ]

Thanks for all your help but ultimatley I am downloading the latest version of debian sarge
all 14 cd's worth (all the packages you could ever need)

The link is here ........

http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/cd-images/debian-weekly/powerpc/


The Reason for this is the netinstall is broken and will not install any packages for me...

but at least the netinstaller left me with
a working linux version - but without kde or gnome - is useless for me.

The advantage is that I will have a full distro
on these cd's to install any package that i like.

Will let you know in a couple of days how this
went......

I am sure its got the vmlinuz-chrp.initrd on the 1st disc so all i have to do is download, burn
and install....

BTW the debian disk i got with my brand new
Pegasos II seems like a very old version
compared to the netinstall version.

The CD set I am downloading is for the 25/10
so much newer.

I am confident this will give me the install I want.


Regards

Niteman1969

[ Edited by niteman1969 on 2004/11/3 8:32 ]

@ Elric: thank you; wasn't sure about this

I gave it another try yesterday evening with the same result: computer loads from CD-ROM a bit, outputs some text and then hangs up...

I noted down the text output but forgot the paper at home Anyway I remember it is mentionned that about 49000 bytes of heap are consumed and that there are about 40000 bytes available. What does it mean? Could it be an indication of the problem?

The last line reads like 'start at 0x00800000' -but obviously nothing starts

An other possibility: should I change the DVD-ROM position in the IDE chain?

Hi!
It seems the one I tryed, (sarge-pegasos1-netinst-2004.10.25.iso)
won't works: the installation seems to be ok, but at the end, the
installer stops with a blue empty screen, when it had (in theory), to
reboot...
Rebooting finaly by hand after a while, trying to boot at the OF
prompt with the righ command does nothing...

Then I restart under Morphos goes in the boot partition and saw...:
nothing new!!!! Trying to copy directly a boot flie (as vmlinux) does
nothing again.... :(((

Exept if someone had a good idea on that, I'm begining to download the
sarge-powerpc-1.iso again 5**mo..and a day+night. :{{{

Ciao!

Yep ... Problems problems ........

This is why I have decided to Download the 14cd set because although the netinstall
actually worked for me the apt could not
download additional packages.

This way I will get a complete distro that will
Include many more packages than I probably
need, but at least I can get what I want....

The only problem is that on my 512k adsl connection 9gb worth of files is gonna take
a long time to download......

Regards

Niteman1969

Why don't you buy a recent (weekly updated)Debian Distribution from a dealer ? I got mine on 2 DVDs for just 18 EUR (incl.postage).