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Hello guys, Yesterday I could (at last!) install Debian base system on my PowerBook2400/180 helped by various information from this mailing list. What I did to get base system installed is as follow: 1. Installed BootX 1.1.3 in my MacOS. 2. Put linux kernel image from disks- powerpc/current/powermac in "Linux Kernel" folder in my system folder. 3. Renamed root1440.bin as "ramdisk.image.gz" and put it in system folder. 4. Copied all necessary files under disks-powerpc onto external scsi HFS volume. 5. Boot into linux using BootX with ramdisk check. 6. Just followed installer with hard disk installation option except "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules" stage. When I tried to install Operationg System Kernel and Modules (of course, used new resc1440.bin image from Porter), I got "No such device: /dev/loop" message. It doesn't matter at all 'cause I prefer BootX method rather than quik. But just for mental health, I made rescue floppy under debian using dd and executed installation script. That's all. I'm very happy to be able to get into Debian world on my PowerBook for the first time. So far I have had an experience to use only LinuxPPC on my mac. But for intel machine, I have installed Debian and some RedHat distributions. Among them, I liked Debian the best. Now I'm ftp'ing Debian binary tree night by night through PPP. Maybe it will take about a week. But it's very happy time for me. Takayuki Hatada Mito, Japan Geocrawler.com - The Knowledge Archive
