Re: Location of root tar file?

1998-08-12 Thread Alex Romosan
it is in Incoming. there must be a list of sites that mirror Incoming somewhere. actually try: ftp://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian/Incoming/base-powerpc.tar.gz. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneousl

Location of root tar file?

1998-08-12 Thread Josh Huber
Ok, sorry if this is redundant, but I've checked the slink directory under binary-powerpc and also the mailing lists, but I can't seem to find the location of this mystery tarball that people seem to be trying out.. :) I've got a redhat system up and running, and could switch fairly easily. Is it

Re: debian/slink base tarball ...

1998-08-12 Thread Alex Romosan
i started with the redhat based ppc distribution, i installed just the base set + ftp so i could get the tarball over. for this i made a partition of 100M, but it easily fits in 50, i think. installed the tarball on the other partition, installed the new kernel (2.1.115 at that time), installed the

Re: debian/slink base tarball ...

1998-08-12 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> i was not able to install the base tarball, since i don't have a working > ramdisk with tar and gzip and other such useful stuff. > > where can i get something similar ? i think standard debian and redhat > ramdisk (or root images or whatever the name is for those things) don't use > tar and gzi

debian/slink base tarball ...

1998-08-12 Thread LUTHER Sven
Hello, i was not able to install the base tarball, since i don't have a working ramdisk with tar and gzip and other such useful stuff. where can i get something similar ? i think standard debian and redhat ramdisk (or root images or whatever the name is for those things) don't use tar and gzip bu