>> OK, I've figured out (at least partially) what is going on. dselect is >> working just fine and so is everything else, except the actual CD. I gave >> up on dselect and rebooted, then mounted the debian CD and discovered >> that my system sees all the folders on it as just plain text files. >> That's why it can't find the directories when I direct it to them. >> This is probably my fault, though I'm not exactly sure why. I downloaded >> the cd image from the debian ftp site and made a CD. I was sure to make >> it 9660 format and can see all the files and folders on it with my Mac, I >> just can't get to them with the Linux box. >> >> Has anyone made a CD for 68K Mac from this image before? Is so, what is >> the secret. I tried making another disk at only 2x speed and that didn't >> work either. I know I have a complete valid CD image, I just can't copy >> it. >> >What command did you use to make the cd? You need to use a byte for byte >duplicator in order to make the cd from the image. Did you use Linux to make >the cd with dd if=[/file/cd/image] of=[/device/name/of/cdwriter] or did you >use a mac utility? A byte for byte duplicator will put the filesystem on >the >cd for you as it is contained in the image.
I found the problem and made another CD last night (the third!). It works just fine. Now all I have to do is wrestle with dselect's intransigent march to the sea! Thanks. David Kachel
