Re: Where do I find Woody?

[anonymous@mcw.edu]

On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Bert Knabe wrote:

> I think I've been to every US ftp site, and I haven't found Woody for
> PPC. I see that there are people on this list running it, so I know it
> exists. Where can I find it? I don't currently have Debian installed so
> I'd like to find the ISO images.

You have a few options:

- The link

    http://www.debian.org/CD/

  gives somes idea of how to go about downloading CD images, or buying
  them.

- Failing that,

    http://www.linuxiso.org

  has Debian 3.0 images.  I did get 2.2r5 disks from that site and those
  worked well for me, but I haven't tried the 3.0 disks.

- If you have enough bandwidth to download a CD image, you might want to
  check the debian installation manual at:

    http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/install.en.html

  Section 4 tells about the various installation methods, and you should
  be able to download a few relatively small files, boot with those and
  do an FTP- or HTTP-based installation.  Last week, I was able to use
  a ramdisk and kernel to install 3.0 on my 8500 via the network install
  method.  The one problem I did have was the kernel supplied with the
  installer did not work on my 8500.  I recompiled a kernel from my old
  installation to do the Woody install, but it went pretty smoothly
  after that.

cheers
vinai