On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 05:15:34PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > Hi there boot people. I have a simple question: I am soon (Tuesday) going to be > doing an install of Debian on an Apple G4. (Of course, this has no floppy > drive, so I'd have to boot off of a CD-ROM.) Should I use a potato CD and then > upgrade to woody or sid over the available T1-speed DSL connection, or would > it be better to roll my own woody CDs? If so, what settings, packages, etc. > would you recommend using? Do I need to put any packages on it, or can I > download everything over the DSL? Since -boot is responsible for debian-cd and > boot-floppies, I am asking here. Thanks for any and all replies. If this is > off-topic, just tell me where to ask and I'll humbly apologize for being OT and > then go ask somewhere else. if you want to try out woody boot-floppies have a current (as of yesterday afternoon) cvs build up at http://penguinppc.org/~eb/files/b-f-cvs/ to make an ad-hoc bootable CD drop all those files into a directory, say master along with a yaboot binary (http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/yaboot) and a yaboot.conf like this: device=cd: partition=2 image=linux label=install initrd=root.bin initrd-size=8192 and run: mkhybrid -part -hfs -map maps -no-desktop -hfs-volid Debian -r -o cdimage.raw master it won't be a totally bootable CD, you will have to boot into OpenFirmware and enter the command: boot cd:,\yaboot some people have trouble installing the kernel and drivers unless its in a specific directory structure, i never have to do this but... make copies of the files you got from my b-f-cvs directory and put them in: master/install/powermac/images-1.44/ there is no base.tgz, you install base over http now. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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