Hi Alex, On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 20:31, Alex Thurgood wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've finally managed to get my copy of 8.2 PPC sent to me after 4 months > wait, you can tell things are bad at Mandrakesoft eh ? Now I need to try > and install it, but the only problem is, I don't have a CDROM drive (and > can't get one). I presume it must be possible to install it some other > way on my 3400C Mac ? FTP, Boot diskette then FTP ? > Although I've installed various flavours of Mandrake on x86 > architectures, I have absolutely no experience with Macs whatsoever, so > please don't flame me for asking any dumb questions that might seem > obvious. I see from the current discussions that people are > experimenting with the latest 9.1 cooker, but I'd like to try my hand at > 8.2 first. > > Any hints ? >
Can you copy the contents of the CD to a local FTP server? If so, you can install using bootX (is 3400 an old-world Mac?, read the instructions on the CD, in the doc-dir) and an FTP-connection (that's how I do it, I don't even burn CD's but mount the ISO-files on an FTP-server) > > BTW, the MAC only has 48 MB RAM and 1.9 Gb disk space free. Will that be > sufficient to install a workstation and network client access, a > graphical desktop or two etc, etc ? > No problem, could be a little slow, but would work. > TIA, > > > Alex THurgood > > > Good luck, Bob
