On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:12:58AM +0300, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > Do we still use the base .tar.gz of the bare bones system? I remember > fetching that into my macos partition and doing the base install using it - > it contains dpkg and a functional base system so you should be able to > install everything else after that?
no as i have said over and over again there is NO base tarball. the bootfloppies run a program called `debootstrap' which downloads all the packages that used to be installed in the base tarball and forcably installs them into /target. that means you must install base over network or cdrom, it sucks and its probably not going to be fixed, its not boot-floppies fault its debootstrap's fault, bug its maintainer. (don't expect anything to come from it). > In my case I even had problems booting with the floppy images (since Pismo > has no floppy drive, and there was no bootable CD for ppc at the time I > could find) - So I just untarred the base .tgz into a new partition, removed > /sbin/unconfigured.sh and off I went booting from that. Needless to say I > did a LOT of "stuff breaks and you fix it" -work... Not recommended. :-P that is not possible anymore > Is it possible for you to burn a bootable CD somewhere? That could be > another option as well. (Do those work on oldworlds?) get the cvs version of debian-cd, i beleive i have fixed it to make bootable (only on newworld powermacs) CDs of woody (and maybe sid). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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