Re: installing debian via nfs

["Erik C.J. Laan" <ecjlaan@hetnet.nl>]

tob wrote:
> hi folks!
> i installed the base system of debian m68k on a modified Macintosh Centris
> 610 ( upgradet with a 68040 proc) so far it works without a problem, now
> i downloaded the complete binary-m68k directory from ftp. uni-mainz.de
> to my intel linux machine, now i tried to install the packages via nfs.
> dselect found the right server and directory. now the problem:
> Dselect asks for the distribution top level , so i wrote binary-m68k the answer
> is: binary-m68k/main/binary-m68k does not exists
> 
> what is wrong, any hints?

The standard directory-structure should be:
/dists/potato/main/binary-m68k
Assuming:  1) the distributions your trying to install is 'potato'
2) you've downloaded everything keeping the standard directory-structure
of the server.
The distribution-toplevel directory would the become /dists/potato. The
solution is this to copy everything from binary-m68k and down into a
directory 'main' somewhere, and pointing the install program to the
directory just above this 'main' diorectory.

Others please correct me if I'm wrong.
Hope this helps, Erik Laan.
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