Bug#122407: boot-floppies: [ppc] iBook instructions should be install manual
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 3.0.17
Severity: normal
[I'm not sure if this is the right package to report against but
apt-cache doesn't seem to be giving me any better ideas right now]
Having just installed on a Cube coming from a "little PPC experience" I
have to agree with this. Branden's iBook page would make a very good
addition to the installation manual - there's a bunch of stuff I
wouldn't have picked up from the manual as it stands in there (in
general, I find the install manual doesn't cover "how do I boot this
?@!* machine into the installer" questions at all well).
The page:
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux damiel 2.4.16-ben0 #6 Thu Dec 27 23:26:51 GMT 2001 ppc
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB
Versions of packages boot-floppies depends on:
ii ash 0.3.8-32 NetBSD /bin/sh
ii bf-utf-source 0.01 Source for fonts needed to build b
ii bison 1:1.28-8.1 A parser generator that is compati
ii build-essential 5 Informational list of build-essent
ii busybox 1:0.60.2-1 Tiny utilities for small and embed
ii debhelper 3.0.51 helper programs for debian/rules
ii debiandoc-sgml 1.1.52 DebianDoc SGML DTD and formatting
ii debootstrap 0.1.15.8 Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii dosfstools 2.8-1 Utilities to create and check MS-D
ii dpkg-awk 1.0.1 Gawk script to parse /var/lib/dpkg
ii file 3.37-3 Determines file type using "magic"
ii flex 2.5.4a-14 A fast lexical analyzer generator.
ii gawk 1:3.1.0-1 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
ii gettext 0.10.40-1 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii libbogl-dev 0.1.7-1 Ben's Own Graphics Library - devel
ii libc6-pic [glibc-pic] 2.2.4-6.0.1 GNU C Library: PIC archive library
ii libgd-dev 1.8.4-7 GD Graphics Library (development v
ii libi18n-langtags-perl 0.26-1 Perl module for dealing with RFC30
ii libnewt-dev 0.50.17-7.3 Developer's toolkit for newt windo
ii libnewt-pic 0.50.17-7.3 Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit, shar
ii libpaperg 1.1.1 Library for handling paper charact
ii libpopt-dev 1.6.2-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libwww-perl 5.53-2 WWW client/server library for Perl
ii m4 1.4-14 a macro processing language
ii man-db 2.3.20-11 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [perl5] 5.6.1-5 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii pointerize 0.5 Internationalization utilities, ba
ii python-dev 2.1.1-4 Header files and a static library
ii python-xml 0.6.6-5 XML tools for Python [dummy packag
ii recode 3.6-3 Character set conversion utility.
ii slang1-pic 1.4.4-5 The S-Lang programming library, sh
ii tetex-extra 1.0.2+20011128-1 extra teTeX library files
ii zlib-bin 1:1.1.3-18 compression library - sample progr
ii zlib1g-dev 1:1.1.3-18 compression library - development
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