On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 07:02:41PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 1999, Bruce Ide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Has anyone come up with a BootX compatable boot disk for Debian PPC? I > >have a PowerMac G3 that I'd love to install Debian PPC on, but I have no > >way to bootstrap the initial file system up there at this time. > > I have the same question ;-) > > I would like to try out debian on one of my machines, but I didn't manage > to install it yet (I didn't try very hard and I'm definitely not very > good at doing userland things on linux, my domain is the kernel ;-) > > So where can I find an up-to-date base filesystem, and is there an > installer boot-disk (I can floppy boot if necessary) that works (the last > time I tried one, it failed in lots of horrible ways) ? Or can someone > explain me how to change a manually un-tared base filesystem into a > working installation without the installer ?
Well, the only bright light for an installer right now is Joel's new machine - which doesn't want to boot. I am afraid that I don't have the resources or time to work on an installer right now, and the current one is messy. I may try to rebuild the base tarball, though. Installing without the installer is ... messy. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| CMU, CS class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Part-Time Systems Programmer | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
