On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Matt Kraai wrote:
> Hello, > > I have been trying to install Debian on an iMac, and I have reached a > sticking point. Here is a summary of what I have done thus far. If anyone > could help me to finish, I would appreciate it. > sounds like the permissions are messed up which happens when untarring from linuxppc. My fix was to reinstall everything from the base directory and let the basefile*.deb and makedev packages set most things to rights. I used the same 2.2.1 kernel I got from linuxppc for both when I boot one or the other with bootx and the 2.2.1 module package from the same place. Then pppconfig worked modem is /dev/ttyS0 gpm is happy with -t bm \ -m /dev/mouse cdrom is /dev/hdc and with xmodmap this makes the delete key work like a backspace as it does on the console:
