Alright, I'm a knucklehead. And I need some basic help...
I've installed and am running Debian Potato on a PC (it's doing the
IP Masquerading and acting as the firewall for my home network), and
I thought that I'd load Potato on my G3 PowerBook, as well.
But then, depression set in. I can't boot off of the CDs (purchased
from LSL) since I don't have the New World ROMs.
So I created the Boot and Root floppies, which work just fine. Since
this will be a dual boot system, I have a couple of Mac partitions,
too - one is the main 6 GB HFS+, and then another CD-sized partition
formatted HFS so both OS's can see it. I've loaded the Potato
Binaries Disk 1 onto it. The remaining space (around 5.5 GB) is
devoted to Linux (100 MB /, 128 MB swap, 200 MB /home, and the
remainder /usr).
And off we go. I have the partitions formatted and mounted,
including the HFS partition with the Debian Binaries 1 disk.
Everything goes fine until section 7.9 of the docs where I have to
point to the install files.
I can't find them.
I checked out the file paths in the docs, and made allowances for the
fact that the LSL CD has different directories than the docs list.
But no matter what I type in this step, when I hit "OK" the cursor
pops back up the the line where I specify the file path. And what's
with the second field on the screen with the <....> in it? I don't
find it mentioned in the documentation.
So that's where I sit. There's probably some simple way out of this,
but I'm not seeing it from the documentation. I happily accept any
suggestions.
Thanks,
Chris
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The plan was simple. Unfortunately, so was Bullwinkle.
