In an attempt to clean things up from my last attempt at iMac debian, I decided to try a clean install. I wiped both LinuxPPC and debian and started anew. Everything went well, I thought, and the instructions seemed to have improved enormously. One minor problem came during my first root login when it asked for the List's of packages to install and no matter what I chose it complained about having to select them first. This was right before it dumped me into dselect. Strange.
Another problem is that, at the moment, dselect seems to not want to scroll beyond the ldso package. But my real problem is that I can't boot very well anymore. When I soft reset the machine, it hangs. When I try a hard reset, it gives me an image of a floppy with a blinking question mark. I can boot using the restore CD, use Drive Setup to mount the drives, and then use BootX to get into Linux, but I can't load the extensions so I can't use most of the existing MacOS stuff. This occured after I booted Debian for the first time. The only thing that I can think of is that quik somehow broke the boot sequence, since it ran at this point. If anyone has heard of or encountered this problem before, I'd really appreciate any advice you might be able to give me. Matt -- Matthew J. Kraai Senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Freedom is not free.
