Re: My own comments re: debian 3.0 powerpc release
Chris,
Thanks for the detailed response.
> Could you suggest a change to the install manual (link in my .sig) which
> could make this more clear? (Assuming the cd based install worked and your
> ethernet card works in Linux now).
I'll try, but I don't know squat about hardware. The ethernet card works
now and I used the Woody beta netinstall minimal.
> I'm not sure where this is. Was it asking for paths like /dev/input/mice, or
> devices like PS/2, or something else?
It was asking to choose from a list of paths, but none that I could
identify with USB. Once I got SSHD running, I stopped worrying about the
mouse and started worrying about the popping / buzzing noise the CRT is
making (sony).
> (There's a link on the main home page, did you miss it?)
No. I've even found the official install instructions on various mirror
sites -- it's on the side bar, but not on the purple nav bar. It assumes
a pretty good familiarity with current Macintosh hardware. I haven't used
a macintosh for more than 6 years so I needed more of a recipe -- many
small things, like the role of OpenFirmware, are glossed over.
> I've never heard of apt-get failing to install a needed dependency. Do
> you have specifics? For apache, just type
>
> apt-get install apache
As long as I stick to stuff on the mirror sites, apt-get works fine. In
the case I was thinking of, I couldn't get beyond the dependencies in
Apache 2.0. I read the man pages, but I'll have to read up on the apt-get
web page.
> The nicest way, I think, to see what packages are available and choose them
> for installation is aptitude. Use
>
> apt-get install aptitude
>
> to install it.
"apt-get install aptitude" This seems to hang, it hasn't moved from 99%
for about 9 hours.
Cheers,
-Lars
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Lars Noodén
Lektor
Institutt for dokumentasjonsvitenskap
HUM-FAK, Universitetet i Tromsø
Breivika, N-9037 Tromsoe, Norway
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