Re: Request proof-reading: installing Debian over LinuxPPC
> > (make sure the file is not gzipped, as there is no decompression
> > utility onboard at the moment).
oops -- i was mistaken about the gzip. after double-checking the
ramdisk i found gzip hiding in there....
> Aha, well, I'm glad I didn't do the LinuxPPC installation for nothing,
> then. :> I wouldn't have been able to do this on my system. IIRC, HFS+
> is not supported, so I wouldn't have had anything mountable that I could
> have gotten the base tarball from!
another alternative assuming you've got an ethernet card and another
machine you can talk to is to do:
ifconfig 192.168.23.17 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
(or whatever your IP/NETMASK combo is)
and then:
mount -t nfs 192.168.23.23:/mirrors/debian /mnt/debian
just put the base2_1 tarball some place you can NFS mount and you're
set-- in my case i went a little modem-crazy and did an entire mirror
of the i386 and powerpc arms of potato on my i386 box. :)
-aaron
p.s. i'm cc'ing this to the list, cause it could be useful to whoever
might be following this thread if they also have that HFS+ issue...
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