I thought I'd be clever. Hah! Boot into MacOS. Delete 'debian' directory from sdc--I still have it on sdb. Run penguin from sdb. Mount sdc1. Mkdir 'debian' on sdc1. That worked. Reboot into MacOS. Copy contents of sdb/debian into sdc/debian--which I know I can see in linux. Only problem is, I can't see 'debian' directory created in linux when booted in MacOS. I obviously have a lot to learn about file systems. I thought maybe linux would be able to create the directory such that it is readable in MacOS. Of course the root of my problem seems to be that MacOS doesn't create a directory readable in linux. What's a fella to do short of going out and buying the cd? That would be too easy. ;-)
-----Original Message----- From: Roger Weinheimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 10:08 PM To: Matthew Dalton Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: "install operating system kernel and modules" problem Ok. I tried manually mounting the /dev/sdb1 (which is hfs), and here's what I see (# ls -al instmnt): d... . d... .. -rwx... Desktop DB -rwx... Desktop DF -rwx... Finder -r-x... System -rwx... Where_have_all_my_files_gone? (literally) -rw-... .rootinfo dr-x... .finderinfo dr-x... .resource Drilling down into .finderinfo and .resource, I see the same directory structure, only .finderinfo and .resource are not directories. I don't see the debian directory that I created and exists in MacOS 8.1. If I can't see my debian directory, I'm not surprised dbootstrap doesn't either. Is there a trick I'm missing? At this point, I have a debian source directory on two different macos drives (sdb1 and sdc1). These are the only hard drives connected to the system other than the target (sda). Back to the docs... -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Dalton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 5:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: "install operating system kernel and modules" problem Is /dev/sdb1 mounted? What is the output of mount (with no arguments)? You probably have to Alt-F2 to a new vt and mount /dev/sdb1 somewhere, then specify the path to the debian archive from there. This is how I installed the base system on my PC. In my case, the base_21.tgz file was on a dos partition, which I had to mount manually first. Matthew Roger Weinheimer wrote: > > This is my question and Bob Hilliard's response. Unfortunately, neither of > his suggestions worked. Is 'instmnt' a literal string or just a placeholder? > Can anyone help me with this. Many thanks. > > > Ok. Next stupid question: > > > > I'm hung up on the following step in the debian dbootsrap process. I'm > > installing from a local disk. Mac68k. > > > > Partition table: > > ... > > /dev/sda2 no driver 4.3 > > /dev/sda3 yes linux swap > > /dev/sda4 yes linux native /target > > /dev/sda5 yes linux native /target/usr > > /dev/sda6 yes linux native /target/home > > /dev/sda7 no free > > > > /dev/sdb1 no hfs (debian archive is here) > > /dev/sdb2 no partition map > > /dev/sdb3 no driver 4.3 > > /dev/sdb4 no free > > > > I get to the screen where I'm supposed to give it the path to the debian > > archive. No matter what I enter, nothing happpens. Are the following > literal > > strings? I'm not offered "choices" as the help file suggests. The screen > > pops up with '/debian' as the default path. > > > > /instmnt/debian/.finderinfo > > > > /instmnt/debian/.resource > > > > /instmnt/debian > > > > Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Then again, maybe I'll > > answer my own question again. > > I haven't made a new installation in years (my last installation > was for bo), and don't know anything about the current boot disks, so > my guess may not be helpful. I would try `/instmnt/debian/dev/sdb1' > or `/instmnt/dev/sdb1'. If neither of those work, try the same without > the `/instmnt'. > > If these don't help, the best place to get help is the the > mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. To subscribe to the > list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the > subject `subscribe'. > > Bob > -- > _ > |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USA PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
