I have been trying to - and I think suceeding in - installing the potato distribution on my PowerMac at home. I am downloading the software onto zip disks and then taking it home. I managed to do the base install by copying the software to my Mac Hard Drive. I seemed to have the basic command line interface come up and I'm not having any problems, except for some pieces I thought would get installed didn't. (i.e. the man command and the man pages for the utilities I already their that I need to finish the install.)
I can't load the IBM formatted zip disks. I have tried mount /dev/sda4 /zip moutn -t dos /dev/sda4 /zip The first tells me that the file system is not recognized, the second tells me it is not supported by the Kernel. I assume either I downloaded an old kernel, the wrong kernel, or I need to compile a new kernel in order to get something that works. When I go to where I have a PC running I can't even use the web pages that would let me know about the dependencies for downloading because they detect that I'm on a PC and point me to the i386 archive. (Perhaps I'm giving them too much credit and the http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages web site). My best guess is to make a slow ppp connection on my Mac and use that to generate the package list and then retrieve that and download the actually packages on my PC. [I am pretty confident I can figure this much out.] But I believe I will then be stuck with the problem of having to figure out how to piecemeal copy the files over to the Mac, at least until I can copy enough so I can rebuild and replace the kernel with one that will read the zips. I only have about 50M of space, because I decided to use most of my disk space for debian, on the Mac at the moment, so my life would be a lot easier if I could just read the PC format zips. If the Potato gets onto a CD I can buy from Cheap Bytes or LinuxMall before I figure this out, I hope someone tells me. -- Josh Kuperman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
