Re: Desperately need some help installing Debian 2.2 on a PowerBook G3
> have you tried to specify the _whole_ path (including the
> drive/partition)? since you copied the cd to an HFS partition, maybe
> your path needs to start with something like this (assuming that your
> HFS partition is hda4 - you can find out using the pdisk utitilty for
> the mac): /dev/hda4/......
Linux doesn't work that way. His HFS drive should be mounted on /instmnt/
so if the files are in DebianBoot on that drive, /instmnt/DebianBoot/
should be the right path (just an example). /dev/hda4 is not a directory
where the disk could possbly be mounted on.
Just using /instmnt/ in that dialog should make the installer search for
the files on the whole drive (though it will expect to find them in the
same directories as on the CD - copying the whole install/ directory
over should preserve the directory structure just fine).
If you tell the installer to locate the files in a nonstandard directory
for you, there might be additional choices (for path/rescue.bin, there
would also be path/.resource/rescue.bin and path/.finderinfo/rescue.bin)
due to the way a HFS filesystem is represented in Linux. Don't select
these .resource or .finderinfo files, they are fakes.
Michael
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