Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > assuming the linuxppc ramdisk has tar and gzip all you would really > have to do is boot it, switch to VC two to get a shell and use > mke2fs on all your partitions then mount them into place (say > /tmp/root /tmp/root/usr etc) and then cd into /tmp/root and untar > the base system, once you do that you manually configure a few > things, such as creating the timezone links, writing a network > script and maybe one or two others.. that should do it.
I fogot how I did this on another G3 laptop months ago, but it was something like this. However, I don't think I had to do a lot of that by hand. I think after I untarred the base files I either chrooted to the debian tree or used "dpkg --root=" to install several of the important base packages manually and their install scripts picked up the slack. I'm not positive of that though. It's been a while. I might also have just rebooted and let the one-shot install script run, then set up things like the networking manually. No matter what, make sure you have /tmp/root/etc/fstab set up correctly before you reboot... -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930
