Re: Status of Debian on the PowerMacs?

["Hartmut Koptein" <koptein@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de>]

> The easiest way will be if he has a free partition.  Untar the base
> tarball which is probably lying in incoming somewhere onto that
> partition, set it as root (Use nvsetenv boot-file 'whereverkernelis
> root=/dev/sdxx').  Then mount the partition with the .debs, or fetch
> them by hand - is ftp in the tarball?  Should be fairly clean.  Kinda.

Yup, thats the reason for having ppp in the tarball. All selections
from dselect should be possible (nfs, cdrom, mounted and also ftp).

But this need then a kernel with ppp & serial support. 

MfG,

   Hartmut