Re: Potato Installation guide
Russell Hires wrote:
>
> >> what with people that only have 1.44M floppy sneakernet going to their
> >> Mac? Will we have to split the .tgz like the base files?
> >That is left as an exersize to the interested reader. Or they buy a CD, but
> >wait, if they don't have a CD-Rom? Do we have to split all debs in 1.44M
> >pieces? I think some day even Mac users have to learn how to use toilet
> >paper...
> >
>
> Hmmm...I think that most macs (even the very earliest ones) have a scsi
> adapter on them. I guess people will have to invest in an external hard
> drive or scsi cd-rom...(OTOH, I don't know what's wrong with doing an
> install from the mac partition of a single hard drive. I did my install that
> way, by getting the files, putting them on the mac partition, booting into
> the linux/debian installer, and remembering where I put the files on the mac
> partition.) Besides, if someone has a 68k mac without a cd-rom, more than
> likely they also have another mac that does have a cd-rom, and they can put
> whatever files they want on the cd-less mac via appletalk from the one that
> does have a cd...whew!
>
> Russell
Well none of my 6 macs have a CD-ROM, but all have ethernet and I just
download the kernel, root.bin and Penguin and do the rest of the install
using http through my DSL link. Works great.
Ray Knight
audilvr@speakeasy.org
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