base system woes on ibook2 (not 12 hours old)
first caveat, this is my initial foray into mac hardware, w/exp. on i386
w/linux.
ibook2 brand spanking new. followed several online guides
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html
http://www.xiph.org/~jack/ibook/instnotes.html
and have os9 and osx installed already. have booted into the debian installer
through OpenFirmware after copying linux.bin, yaboot, yaboot.conf and
root.bin to osx's root directory, then starting with a boot hd:9,\yaboot or
some other apple magic...
so the installer starts and i get the kernel and driver modules off the net
at
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/...
when it comes time to install the base system, i'm having much trouble. i
have no iso cdrom. i've been trying to do this over the network, which is
working. i can ping from another box the laptop, and in tty2 i can ping my
router from the ibook. and the installer went and dloaded the drivers.tgz
from the above URL...
the error i receive is:
Release Check Failed:
The Server was unavailable or contained no Release file.
#######
Google hasn't helped me, or i'm getting cross-eyed from this and missed it.
is the installer expecting a 'release' file? i have seen the URL pointers for
potato having a different makeup than what i see available for woody.
END OF EXPLANATION
question? if i dload and burn an iso for my powerbook, which one should i
get? what arthritic ninja hand move do i have to do to boot from the cd? the
open-apple+option+O+F? if so, then when in OF, what do i type to get to the
cd?
I hope someone's still awake, or waking up...
ken
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