Re: More on Powerbook G3 install
Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
> assuming the linuxppc ramdisk has tar and gzip all you would really
> have to do is boot it, switch to VC two to get a shell and use
> mke2fs on all your partitions then mount them into place (say
> /tmp/root /tmp/root/usr etc) and then cd into /tmp/root and untar
> the base system, once you do that you manually configure a few
> things, such as creating the timezone links, writing a network
> script and maybe one or two others.. that should do it.
I fogot how I did this on another G3 laptop months ago, but it was
something like this. However, I don't think I had to do a lot of that
by hand. I think after I untarred the base files I either chrooted to
the debian tree or used "dpkg --root=" to install several of the
important base packages manually and their install scripts picked up
the slack. I'm not positive of that though. It's been a while. I
might also have just rebooted and let the one-shot install script run,
then set up things like the networking manually.
No matter what, make sure you have /tmp/root/etc/fstab set up
correctly before you reboot...
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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930
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