acutally i figured it out :-) I had SCSI voodoo. Amazing how those little jumpers make a difference... The installer worked and booted. But I still think "woody" has bugs in it. The installer just loops when after I finish setting up the password info; it should ask about PPP, but never does. I do rememeber seeing kernel errors on booting (live not floppy) about PPP/serial modules missing. So i am trying different various of modules during the install. I may have to go to the stable which i think is potato. We'll see :-) -J --- Josh Huber <huber@alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
Jeremy <mcotis@yahoo.com> writes:
They are ext2 fs. Are there different flavors of ext2? or of even partition maps?
Well, no there aren't different flavors of ext2 -- unless your original installation is SO old that it was from the days when powerpc ext2 was stored in big-endian format on disk.
As for the partition table, yes there are different types of partition tables, but if you were using MacOS with that computer successfully, you were probably using an Apple partition table.
What kind of output do you see? Any messages in the kernel log? How about /proc/partitions?
What kind of output do you see in the dmesg about the Partition check:
Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [mac] p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7 p8
is what I see...
What distribution are you trying?
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