Re: Reinstalling Debian Woody

2002-04-23 Thread Lars D. Noodén
Sure, a link from the install notes to the CD FAQ would be good. A short paragraph with the highlights plus a link would be even better. Keep in mind that (at least 3 years ago) your average web page has 20 links. So the likelihood that a new person will 'click their way forth' to the right pag

Re: Reinstalling Debian Woody

2002-04-22 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 09:55:18AM +0200, Lars D. Nood?n wrote: > Ok. Here are some more concrete suggestions regarding the installation > guide. The are probably many other people without floppies or with only > non-booting USB floppies. > > http://www.uk.debian.org/releases/woody/powerpc/inst

Re: Reinstalling Debian Woody

2002-04-22 Thread Lars D. Noodén
Ok. Here are some more concrete suggestions regarding the installation guide. The are probably many other people without floppies or with only non-booting USB floppies. http://www.uk.debian.org/releases/woody/powerpc/install For me, the hard part was finding which ISO image to use *and* which

Re: Reinstalling Debian Woody

2002-04-22 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 07:29:14AM +0200, Lars D. Nood?n wrote: > > Floppyless installs should have more focus in the install guide. Many > (most?) new macintoshes do not have a floppy drive. At my site we have > about 50 macintoshes (G3/G4) but I've only seen two where a 3.5" drive has > bee

Re: Reinstalling Debian Woody

2002-04-22 Thread Lars D. Noodén
Floppyless installs should have more focus in the install guide. Many (most?) new macintoshes do not have a floppy drive. At my site we have about 50 macintoshes (G3/G4) but I've only seen two where a 3.5" drive has been added. A few have zip disks. -Lars On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Chris Tillm

Re: Reinstalling Debian Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 08:51:46PM -0400, Haroon Dar wrote: > I have a PowerComputing PowerCenter 132 "oldworld" and i got Debian installed > with the boot-floppy-hfs.img, driver-1, ""-2, rescue and root floppy > disks. I want to reinstall Debian over and i can't get the same disks boot > th

Reinstalling Debian Woody

2002-04-20 Thread Haroon Dar
I have a PowerComputing PowerCenter 132 "oldworld" and i got Debian installed with the boot-floppy-hfs.img, driver-1, "    "-2, rescue and root floppy disks. I want to reinstall Debian over and i can't get the same disks boot the installation. Do you what the problem is?