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Debian Installer for Wii
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 8:43 am
by farter
Installation Guide
Download Installers:
FileServe,
Hotfile
Download Pre-Installed Images:
FileServe,
Hotfile
Re: Debian Installer for Wii
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 8:04 am
by jrios
Hello (sorry for my english)
I have download Pre-installed images from FileServe (d4wii_Squeeze.img.bz2)
I have got a Usb pen drive (16GB)
I have got a d4wii_Squeeze.img and I execute md5sum on the img file
md5sum d4wii_Squeeze.img
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f0fd31f0be1b5fa5590e3c1cf6286c0c d4wii_Squeeze.img
I use dd comand to put the img file in my USB
I execute fdisk comand and these are the results
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Disco /dev/sdb: 16.0 GB, 16001036288 bytes
255 cabezas, 63 sectores/pista, 1945 cilindros
Unidades = cilindros de 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico / físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Identificador de disco: 0x00079499
Disposit. Inicio Comienzo Fin Bloques Id Sistema
/dev/sdb1 1 131 1052226 6 FAT16
/dev/sdb2 132 473 2747115 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 474 486 104422+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
I have got a Wii with homebrew channel
I connect a usb in my wii
When I execute HBC, I have a kernel panic and the last message is rebottong in 180 seconds.
Do you have any idea to install debian in my wii?
Best regards
Re: Debian Installer for Wii
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 4:37 am
by farter
Sorry for the late reply.
If I understand correctly, you dd'ed the pre-installed img onto a usb flash disk and tried to run Debian from it directly?
Well, you can't do that. Not without some modification anyway. That's because the pre-installed img is from a front SD card installation, and the kernel is set up to find root file system there, not on your USB disk.
You have to manually hex-edit the boot.elf file, change the "root=" argument in kernel commandline parameters to something like "root=/dev/sda2" etc.
Re: Debian Installer for Wii
Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 10:24 am
by wall
Hi, I tried to follow your tutorial but the setup can't find the iso file. I've tried on a USB HDD, USB MicroSD reader as well as the front SD slot on the Wii. And another thing different from your tutorial is after selecting the b43 wifi adapter it ask if I want to load something which I can't remember know, I'll try again and report the error(s). BTW, just to be sure, is this files structure correct?
Wii's SD Slot:
root/cube.tar.bz2
root/modules.tar.bz2
root/apps/Debian/boot.elf
icon.png
meta.xml
root/apps/Debian Installer/boot.elf
icon.png
meta.xml
root/bootmii/armboot.bin
bootmii.ini
d.576i(PAL).elf
d-i.576i(PAL).elf
ppcboot.elf
Re: Debian Installer for Wii
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:49 am
by farter
Hi,
The filesystem structure seems to be ok. Are you using the ISO image bundled with the installer? Put it in the root of your front SD card and retry.