Re: help with dselect (on m68k)
>> OK, I've figured out (at least partially) what is going on. dselect is
>> working just fine and so is everything else, except the actual CD. I gave
>> up on dselect and rebooted, then mounted the debian CD and discovered
>> that my system sees all the folders on it as just plain text files.
>> That's why it can't find the directories when I direct it to them.
>> This is probably my fault, though I'm not exactly sure why. I downloaded
>> the cd image from the debian ftp site and made a CD. I was sure to make
>> it 9660 format and can see all the files and folders on it with my Mac, I
>> just can't get to them with the Linux box.
>>
>> Has anyone made a CD for 68K Mac from this image before? Is so, what is
>> the secret. I tried making another disk at only 2x speed and that didn't
>> work either. I know I have a complete valid CD image, I just can't copy
>> it.
>>
>What command did you use to make the cd? You need to use a byte for byte
>duplicator in order to make the cd from the image. Did you use Linux to make
>the cd with dd if=[/file/cd/image] of=[/device/name/of/cdwriter] or did you
>use a mac utility? A byte for byte duplicator will put the filesystem on
>the
>cd for you as it is contained in the image.
I found the problem and made another CD last night (the third!). It works
just fine. Now all I have to do is wrestle with dselect's intransigent
march to the sea!
Thanks.
David Kachel
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