Re: help installing Debian using LinuxPPC June '99..

[Andreas Tobler <toa@pop.agri.ch>]

'Dread Pirate' Nick Rusnov wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I was wondering if it is still possible to somehow do a "manual" install from
> base2_2.tgz using an existing Linux/PPC installation? I tried to follow the
> minihowto thing, but wasn't terribly sucessful (that is, base2_2.tgz from
> potato-current) -
> 

Take an older base (from feb99), the actual one seems to broken.

> * dselect wasn't able to configure everything in the base packages due to missing
>   helper programs (update-rc.d and install-info); I tried simply commenting those
>   out of the postinst scripts, and everything configured, but when I booted
>   I got an "enter runlevel:" prompt..
> 
enter runlevel: is correct, here you have to type S. Then follow here:  http://www.debian.org/~wmono/powerpc/

Andreas