Hi Ethan Thanks for all your time so far.
For anyone else who is coming in on this thread, I'm trying to install Debian on a Lombard. The potato installers set quik as the boot system. I need yaboot, which should work in woody. Using the woody installers, I get to the base-install stage of the install and then get stuck as the system tries to find a 'Release' or 'basedebs.tgz' file over http. I'm really stuck. On 11/10/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ethan Benson) wrote: > get woody boot-floppies: > ftp.kernel.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac I downloaded these and the install went fine, again, until I hit the base install stage. > > Where is woody base? > > there is no woody base tarball. base tarballs are obsolete. Still, woody tries to find a 'Release' or 'basedebs.tgz' file over http. In my case the installer reported, after several attempts over a half meg connection, that the Release file was 'malformed'. I also downloaded the Release file at http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-powerpc/Release onto an nfs share, but that didn't work either, exiting with the 'malformed' message. Ow! My potato CDs don't work and the potato imac.sit file installer doesn't work (because they both revert to quik). I'd be grateful for help! Rory
