Okay, I'm going to try my question again, in the hopes that someone
on this list has already experienced what I'm going through and can
shed some light... I posted this once before, but the only response
I got was from Dan (Thanks, Dan!) who said that everything seems to
be right...
I'm trying to load Debian Potato on my Powerbook G3. I believe that
this is a system with the Old World ROM. I also trying to use the
CDs I purchased through Linux System Labs (LSL) which are advertised
to be "official" disks.
I started by reformatting my 12 GB drive allocating half of it to
MacOS 9 formatted HFS+, a CD sized partition formatted HFS, and the
remainder to Linux with root, swap, /home, and /usr partitions (all
of this was done through Apple's latest Disk Tools utility).
I then copied the entire contents of the Binaries Disk 1 CD onto the
HFS partition because I can't have both the CD and a floppy drive at
the same time (they are in the same bay and hot swappable).
I've been able to boot both through floppies I created from disk
images found on the CD, and through BootX. Both launch me into the
Linux installer where I have formatted the Linux partitions, mounted
them, and mounted the HFS partition.
Then I come to my problem. I'm at the point where it's time to
install the operating system kernel and modules. I'm given a choice
of a number of different ways to do it. I've tried off of a mounted
volume (the HFS partition) and the CD - both with exactly the same
results:
I'm asked to choose the path where the Debian archive resides. I
have no idea which archive it's asking for, but when I leave the
default choice of /instmnt and select "OK" I get an error message
stating that this path doesn't contain the directory
/powermac/images-1.44/rescue.bin. So I assume that I'm looking for
rescue.bin. (By the way, that file is in
"dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/2.2.16-2000-07-26/powermac/images-1.44/")
So I specify the path to that file (which I've verified under MacOS
by actually going there). However, when I tell it to "Continue" in
the Linux installer, the cursor jumps to the end of the line where
I'm supposed to input the path. I've tried specifying the path
element by element, both with and without the "/" at the end of each
element, and get exactly the same results.
So what am I doing wrong?
I've been a Mac guy for 15 years, so I'm pretty sure that my Mac
knowledge is up to snuff. I've installed and am currently running
Debian 2.2 on an Intel box here, as well. It went on pretty
painlessly (if you discount NIC problems that I eventually resolved).
There is _nothing_ in the docs about this, and nobody as mentioned
anything similar in the few weeks that I've been reading this list.
I can't find anything similar in the UseNet newsgroup archives, and
my first attempt at asking here netted nothing. I can't be the first
and only person to be attempting this.
So where do I go from here? Does anyone out there have an idea? I'd
love to make this work, and after spending more than a dozen hours
reading docs and trying various things, I'm starting to view this as
a quest...
Thanks,
Chris
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The plan was simple. Unfortunately, so was Bullwinkle.
