I started writing a howto on installing and running Debian on G3 PowerBooks. It's located at http://scw.ucsd.edu/~bigj/pbg3linux.html and is in need of reviews. It summarizes many emails and faqs and faq-o-matics but it needs to be re-read by people. This might help this current question and if anyone has time to read through and comment/thrash me it will be nice. regardz
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, William Ono wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 08:00:30PM +1000, David Fong wrote: > > > > Having had heaps of trouble trying to install new Debian packages on > > > top of base2_1 (Debian slink), I am having a go at installing base2_2 > > > (Debian potato). > > > > > > Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a boot-up script in the tgz > > > file. > > David, > > I just ran across this same problem when trying to make Debian run on my > iMac. This message in the archives had the information I needed: > > http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-powerpc-9902/msg00100.html > > To summarize that mail, you need to create a few important files then > reboot, then tell init to enter runlevel S. After that, run dselect and > configure the pre-installed packages. > > You should also read > > ... /debian-powerpc-9905/msg00005.html and > ... /debian-powerpc-9905/msg00010.html > > for information on how to avoid breaking your system. After some > experimentation (and much reformatting and reinstalling) I have discovered > that the following, to be done immediately after the pre-installed > packages are configured, will solve those problems: > > - Install new libc6: apt-get install libc6 > - Unpack the new bash .deb, but not on top of the old one. Don't install > it yet. Copy the bash binary somewhere safe, maybe /bash-new. (I used > alien on another machine for this, then ftp'd the binary to my iMac.) > - apt-get install bash .. and expect maintainer scripts to break. > - mv /bin/bash /bin/bash-old > - mv /bash-new /bin/bash > - apt-get install bash .. and hopefully this time it'll work. > > (By the way, if anyone knows a better procedure for this, I would be > delighted to hear it!) > > I hope this helps. > > -- > William Ono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP key: > 0x93BA6AFD > fingerprint = E3 64 C5 43 3E B3 2D A6 C6 D7 E3 45 90 24 78 DE = fingerprint > PGP-encrypted mail welcome! "640k ought to be enough for everybody." > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Jambi. --This message was never sent. http://scw.ucsd.edu/~bigj
