Re: Potato Installation guide-Mac
> > Go for it. Count me out if you switch to SGML though. I'd rather learn XML
> > or TeX :-)
> _Learn_ TeX ??? How did you write your thesis?
ROTFL. I wrote my thesis using Signum on my Falcon. No need for TeX.
Seeing the TeX nuts around here labor over subtle formatting issues I
guess even using Word would have been faster.
> Whats xml? sgml seems not to be too difficult though, at least not for what
> I need, I just want conditional processing, so that in the master document
xml is a metaformat describing all sorts of compound documents or data
from what I gather. Sounds like SGML blown way out of proportion.
I get the idea of conditional processing, but the sheer horror from
fighting SGML for the slink boot floppies won't go away.
> -Debian distributions are known by various names. This version, 2.2 is
> +Debian distributions are known by various names. This version, 2.2, is
I'm not an expert on punctuation in english. That change would be correct
for german spelling but what's the proper english spelling?
> If you chose to install from the floppy images, create a new folder named
> -"install". Move the base2_2.tgz, resc1440.bin,drv1440.bin and Pengiun files
> -into this folder. Do not rename any files.
> +"install". Move the base2_2.tgz, resc1440.bin,drv1440.bin and Penguin files
> +into this folder. Do not rename any files.
> +(FIXME: whats this? You need the floppy images anyway, they are called
> +rescue.bin, driver.bin and _have_ to live in images-1.44, right? Ok to
> +delete this paragraph?)
I must have missed part of that. We need to create that directory
structure if installing off the hard disk (floppies are not an option with
potato).
> +(FIXME: install from floppies? On a Mac? I thought you can only install from
> +HDD or CD-Rom?)
Yep. You could try to boot from the rescue.bin image in case the booter is
on that image, unpacked. But you would need to load the ramdisk from a
second floppy.
> yourself. It must begin with a "/", followed by the directory components
> leading to the files (e.g. "/tmp/newstuff/install" if the files reside in
> the directory/tmp/newstuff/install/ on that partition).
> -
> +(FIXME: I do not think this is true. On Amiga the partition you selected is
> +mounted under /instmnt, you have to give a path relative to this. Also, if
Nope. The instmnt is prepended by the installer, you only need to give it
the path on the actual filesystem. On the CD that would be /install, why
not use the same name on the HD?
> +Is it really different on a Mac?)
Yes, it will find three locations (install/.finderinfo, install/.resource,
install/), only the last one is useful.
Michael
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