Re: New: installation on g4
Martin Breidung wrote:
>
> >Ethan Benson
> >http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
>
> >woody boot-floppies take care of all these steps for you with its
> >make system bootable step, they are only required on potato, another
> >reason not to use potato bootfloppies, unless you really want to run
> >potato (i only know of 2 or 3 people that do).
>
> yes i think i have to get a set of woody cd-images, but i can't poll them
> with my poorly 64kbit ISDN.. so i look for a distibutor.. most of them have
> only potato-images...
>
> booting a floppy isn't possible because g4-400pci neither have a floppy
> build-in nor a controller onboard and i don't have any external fdd's for
> it...
>
> i think a possibility would be to install a nfs-server on one of my
> linux-pc's, download base-system and other needed from potato and woody and
> install it after booting potato-cd via nfs to compare the image i got from
> cd and the results under woody-basesystem...
>
> the errors in libc.so.6 after booting the installed basesystem doesn't seem
> to be a known problem, so either my cd-set is broken or there's something
> wrong with my hardware. i'm using linux for nearly 3 years on pc, but i
> don't know this problem there..
It would be easier to just start with potato (hey, I run potato, it
works fine) and read the docs and do those steps yourself than to go
through all those other hassles. Maybe someone on the list can make
you a set of woody CDs and snail them to you. Someone in Germany,
hopefully ~:^)
a
Reply to: