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.
hi chris,
have you tried to specify the _whole_ path (including the
drive/partition)? since you copied the cd to an HFS partition, maybe
your path needs to start with something like this (assuming that your
HFS partition is hda4 - you can find out using the pdisk utitilty for
the mac): /dev/hda4/......
you could also try to make a RAM disk unter mac os, and start up from
the RAM disk, so you don't need your floppy drive and you can use the
cds.
randy
