Re: wrong CD!!!
Quoting dkphoto (dkphoto@cyber-wire.com):
> Found a great looking book at the bookstore that had the added bonus of
> containing a Debian CD so I wouldn't have to spend the next 10 years
> downloading. Only one problem... it only has platform specific files on
> it for Wintel boxes. I have a 68K Mac.
> Now I assume that I can just use a handful of downloaded files along with
> this CD for an install (I hope), but need to know which files to put
> where to start, and if the setup will pull the files it wants off the CD.
The installation procedure would pull the right files off the CD except
they won't be there because the architecture is wrong. The few files
that would work are those which contain just documentation as they are
architecture-independant (they will be links in the m68k tree on the ftp
site).
Cheers,
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