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Re: Okay, where is it?



On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 11:45:43PM -0500, Chris Ivanovich wrote:
> At 7:16 PM -0400 9/18/00, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 02:49:44PM -0500, Chris Ivanovich wrote:
> >>  I checked out the file paths in the docs, and made allowances for the
> >>  fact that the LSL CD has different directories than the docs list.
> >>  But no matter what I type in this step, when I hit "OK" the cursor
> >>  pops back up the the line where I specify the file path.  And what's
> >>  with the second field on the screen with the <....> in it?  I don't
> >>  find it mentioned in the documentation.
> >
> >Different directories?  How different, and did they call the CDs
> >official?  That's not ok.  The files should be in
> >dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/ somewhere...
> 
> Yes, I believe that these are "official" disks.  And there is _no_ 
> "current" directory!  I've been checking out 
> dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/2.2.16-2000-07-26/powermac/<directory 
> with 9 files and a directory with 4 disk images>.

Is there a symlink "current" in that dir (disks-powerpc)?  There
certainly should be!

Otherwise, you're looking in the right directory, I think.  You want
the rescue.bin in powermac/images-1.44 and the base2_2.tgz in
2.2.16*/ or /common/ or something like that.

> Well, I couldn't get it to actually _do_ anything when it was 
> selected and I hit <enter> so I wondered what the function was...

I might just be wrong :)

Dan

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