HOWTO [was Re: Installing Debian base2_2.tgz]
I started writing a howto on installing and running Debian on G3
PowerBooks. It's located at http://scw.ucsd.edu/~bigj/pbg3linux.html and
is in need of reviews. It summarizes many emails and faqs and
faq-o-matics but it needs to be re-read by people. This might help this
current question and if anyone has time to read through and comment/thrash
me it will be nice.
regardz
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, William Ono wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 08:00:30PM +1000, David Fong wrote:
>
> > > Having had heaps of trouble trying to install new Debian packages on
> > > top of base2_1 (Debian slink), I am having a go at installing base2_2
> > > (Debian potato).
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a boot-up script in the tgz
> > > file.
>
> David,
>
> I just ran across this same problem when trying to make Debian run on my
> iMac. This message in the archives had the information I needed:
>
> http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-powerpc-9902/msg00100.html
>
> To summarize that mail, you need to create a few important files then
> reboot, then tell init to enter runlevel S. After that, run dselect and
> configure the pre-installed packages.
>
> You should also read
>
> ... /debian-powerpc-9905/msg00005.html and
> ... /debian-powerpc-9905/msg00010.html
>
> for information on how to avoid breaking your system. After some
> experimentation (and much reformatting and reinstalling) I have discovered
> that the following, to be done immediately after the pre-installed
> packages are configured, will solve those problems:
>
> - Install new libc6: apt-get install libc6
> - Unpack the new bash .deb, but not on top of the old one. Don't install
> it yet. Copy the bash binary somewhere safe, maybe /bash-new. (I used
> alien on another machine for this, then ftp'd the binary to my iMac.)
> - apt-get install bash .. and expect maintainer scripts to break.
> - mv /bin/bash /bin/bash-old
> - mv /bash-new /bin/bash
> - apt-get install bash .. and hopefully this time it'll work.
>
> (By the way, if anyone knows a better procedure for this, I would be
> delighted to hear it!)
>
> I hope this helps.
>
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