I managed to get a debian system installed on my new G4 533 dual. I have only limited experience with debian. Please forgive my ignorance.
I could not used the debian ramdisk image for some reason so I used the linuxPPC Q4 ramdisk. (The debian ramdisk would not go past the release notes and machine check screen.) So I had to moved the unconfigured.sh out of the way and do some configuring by hand. As a result I have a few problems that someone might be able to help me with. Can some one give me an example on how to install a major package like X11, off a cdrom using Apt? Apt always wants to go to the internet instead of the cdrom. This might be because I have no cdrom entry in my fstab. The system will not let me edit fstab even though I am "root" and the disk is read/right. Has anyone ever heard of this? I managed to install many packages using dpkg but this is definitely the hard way, right? Using Apt how does one construct an install command from the package name. i.e. if I have package foo-1.4.4.deb how do I get the package to install from cdrom using apt? Is the system configuration tool that is on the ramdisk image available separately? If you say use linuxconf, I will cry because I do not like it. Also, lastly, is there an X server that works with the GForce2 video in my new G4? Fred
