Re: boot-floppies 3.0.7 for powermac
>>
>> since it seems powerpc boot-floppies 3.0.7 were never built i have
>> uploaded a cvs snapshot build for powermac only (sorry uploading 33MB
>> over dialup is not my idea of ammusing).
>>
>> its available at:
>> http://penguinppc.org/~eb/debian/powerpc/bf-cvs-snapshot-2001.07.07/
>>
> ...
>>
>> when you get to the `install base system' step switch to VC2 and do
>> the following:
>>
>> 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?
>
I realized you were just intending to create a wrapper script named
debootstrap to call debootstrap.real, so I made it in nano-tiny.
>> then switch back to VC1 and select `Install Base System' tell it to
>> install via the network with default/fake/bogus network settings
>> (since they will be ignored by our wrapper). it will run the wrapper
>> which calls debootstrap with the args we want, dbootstrap will be none
>> the wiser and configures the base correctly after debootstrap exits.
>>
>
This time, this succeeded to a point... it said
dists/woody/Release was not pre-downloaded.
Where is it looking for Release? Where should I find the unzipped base
packages?
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