> Well, the only bright light for an installer right now is Joel's new > machine - which doesn't want to boot. I am afraid that I don't have > the resources or time to work on an installer right now, and the > current one is messy. I may try to rebuild the base tarball, though. > > Installing without the installer is ... messy. >
I'm somewhat curious as to how you can have all those packages in potato and no boot/install disks. Have you guys really done that many on the 4 or 5 machines you have up? I'm assuming the stuff in Potato will work on my Mac G3 (It's symlinked to sid/*-powerpc) Please let me know if this is not the case. I tried mounting the RAMDISK on my intel system and tweaking it so that it would boot to a command prompt where I could partition and format the drives, mount them up, and detar the base tar. I assume dselect/dpkg/apt works reasonably well and so I should be home free at that point. However, when I try to boot my modified RAMDISK, it gripes that no init was found. I thougt init was supposed to live in /sbin, so I'm not sure what's up there. I copied the init from the base tarball in potato. Does this sound like a reasonable line of attack? Once I get the system up, I'd be happy to try to build a ramdisk people could boot that has the installer on it. *shrug* -Bruce
