Re: Please Help

["Russell Hires" <rhires@earthlink.net>]

You can skip that part. At least, in the installer. There ends up being a
kernel on the root partition in any case. My problem has been compiling a
new kernel. I discovered that I didn't even have "make" as part of my
software. I've been upgrading all the packages (or adding them) necessary to
compile. I was almost there, when I made a major mistake, trying to replace
libc.so.6. Oops! I still have been unable to find this "little" library so
important to a functioning system anywhere! 

Good luck to you.

Russell
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>From: Ginsburg <guss@insync.net>
>To: "Russell Hires" <rhires@earthlink.net>
>Cc: Debian <debian-68k@lists.debian.org>
>Subject: Re: Please Help
>Date: Sun, Mar 19, 2000, 23:01
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>when it comes to the install kernel and modules stage tho, it doesn't work.
>I know this stage isn't critical, but it is useful
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>>Hey! Exactly what I have! (Okay, almost. I have a Quadra 610--same machine,
>>different name, as far as I know)
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>>I've discovered you don't need to make a floppy with ms-dos on it. You need
>>to set up the Penguin booter to look for your root.bin and ramdisk
>>(/dev/ram) directly on a mac partition. I have mine set up with a 1G HD,
>>with Mac-OS taking up about 300 MB (for Mac OS 8 and such) and the rest
>>devoted to Linux. When the booter/install comes up, you can choose to
>>install/reformat the Linux part however you want. You then want to mount
>>your root partition, then you want to mount your Mac HFS partition, which is
>>"mount a previously initialized partition." The Mac part then becomes /usr
>>or whatever you want to call it. I called mine /mnt. So the root partition
>>is /target and the mac partition is /target/mnt. Then you simply tell the
>>installer where you've got your install file (base2_1.tgz isn't it, for
>>slink?)  When you're done there...continue on your Linux adventure!
>>
>>
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