> > (make sure the file is not gzipped, as there is no decompression > > utility onboard at the moment).
oops -- i was mistaken about the gzip. after double-checking the ramdisk i found gzip hiding in there.... > Aha, well, I'm glad I didn't do the LinuxPPC installation for nothing, > then. :> I wouldn't have been able to do this on my system. IIRC, HFS+ > is not supported, so I wouldn't have had anything mountable that I could > have gotten the base tarball from! another alternative assuming you've got an ethernet card and another machine you can talk to is to do: ifconfig 192.168.23.17 netmask 255.255.255.0 up (or whatever your IP/NETMASK combo is) and then: mount -t nfs 192.168.23.23:/mirrors/debian /mnt/debian just put the base2_1 tarball some place you can NFS mount and you're set-- in my case i went a little modem-crazy and did an entire mirror of the i386 and powerpc arms of potato on my i386 box. :) -aaron p.s. i'm cc'ing this to the list, cause it could be useful to whoever might be following this thread if they also have that HFS+ issue...
