Hello Stephen On 01-Feb-09, you wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Stephen R Marenka <[email protected]> ----- > > From: Stephen R Marenka <[email protected]> > To: Thomas Sjölin <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Installation > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 04:20:44PM +0100, Thomas Sjölin wrote: >> Hi. >> >> I've been away from the Amiga and m68k world for a while but just got a >> new drive to play around with debian. >> >> Since I've had a go at NetBSD in between I had removed my previous woody >> installation and now that I tried to install it again I found that I >> couldn't get any packages through netinstall. > > Well woody has certainly been migrated to http://archive.debian.org/. Ah, there it was. Strange, I thought I checked there but apparently I didn't. I just need to configure an ftp to point there in tasksel then. How about non-us, those packages doesn't seem to be there? >> So, my question is this. Is it at all possible to do or do I have to >> download and burn the cd images and install that way? Netinst would be >> preferable but is there any ftp server where the complete dist is still >> avaliable? >> >> An alternative is of course to test a newer dist but I can't seem to >> find >> any info on how to install either sarge or etch and not where to find >> the >> files needed to start installing it, again the preferred way is netinst. > > I'd expect the sarge installer to just work, but it's also at archive now > so who knows. The etch installer got broken when etch got renamed to > etch-m68k. I was using the lenny installer (dailies) to installer > etch-m68k, but the mirror choosing code seems to be broken last time I > tried. > > My notes are at <http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/M68k>. > > Hmmmm. Looks like I did something to kill the daily buildds. I better go > fix that. Well, now I'm good to go and I'll start with woody and then see if I can dist-upgrade to sarge. As long as I get woody working I'll be happy enough. >> Would appreciate any suggestions. I just need to find either what I need >> to get the newer distst started or an ftp server where woody is still >> avaliable. > > hth, > > Stephen Thanks! Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
