Martin Breidung wrote: > > >Ethan Benson > >http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ > > >woody boot-floppies take care of all these steps for you with its > >make system bootable step, they are only required on potato, another > >reason not to use potato bootfloppies, unless you really want to run > >potato (i only know of 2 or 3 people that do). > > yes i think i have to get a set of woody cd-images, but i can't poll them > with my poorly 64kbit ISDN.. so i look for a distibutor.. most of them have > only potato-images... > > booting a floppy isn't possible because g4-400pci neither have a floppy > build-in nor a controller onboard and i don't have any external fdd's for > it... > > i think a possibility would be to install a nfs-server on one of my > linux-pc's, download base-system and other needed from potato and woody and > install it after booting potato-cd via nfs to compare the image i got from > cd and the results under woody-basesystem... > > the errors in libc.so.6 after booting the installed basesystem doesn't seem > to be a known problem, so either my cd-set is broken or there's something > wrong with my hardware. i'm using linux for nearly 3 years on pc, but i > don't know this problem there..
It would be easier to just start with potato (hey, I run potato, it works fine) and read the docs and do those steps yourself than to go through all those other hassles. Maybe someone on the list can make you a set of woody CDs and snail them to you. Someone in Germany, hopefully ~:^) a
