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Re: boot-floppies 3.0.7 for powermac



On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 04:18:43PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:

> > cd /usr/sbin
> > mv debootstrap debootstrap.real
> > cat <<EOF
> > #!/bin/sh
> > exec debootstrap.real --boot-floppies --arch powerpc --unpack-tarball \
> >  /target/basedebs.tgz woody /target null:
> > EOF
> > chmod 755 debootstrap
> >
> 
> This step failed, because we moved debootstrap to debootstrap.real.
> Should that have been a copy?

your not paying attention:

> > cat <<EOF
> > #!/bin/sh
> > exec debootstrap.real --boot-floppies --arch powerpc --unpack-tarball \
> >  /target/basedebs.tgz woody /target null:
> > EOF

that CREATES a small debootstrap shell script, all it does is call the
real debootstrap.  

> I went ahead and tried this, but the please wait ... screen just never left.

it worked for me, probably because you didn't follow my directions

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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