Hi - I'm in the somewhat frustrating situation of having to install Debian on a Powerbook 1400cs, which is a Nubus machine (and therefore not yet supported by Debian). To make things worse, it does not have a cdrom drive, just a serial connection to a Debian-PPC oldworld G3. I have found that there is a project going on to make monolithic Linux work with Nubus machines (nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net), and their patches already support the type of machine I'm using (without pcmcia and floppy though). At the same time, I found several floppy images on my Debian CD set, and tested them: the image named boot-floppy-hfs.img boots successfully on the desktop G3 but crashes the notebook, as expected. What I would like to do is help out with the Debian-boot/powerpc project here to have a floppy that boots the kernel from nubus-pmac and starts the Debian install process. The problem is that I'm a bit lost: For example, I tried to find out which Debian package contains boot-floppy-hfs.img. The package searcher on debian.org gave no answer but I finally stumbled about boot-floppies and grabbed the package using apt-get source. Now I still have no idea where exactly boot-floppy-hfs.img came from as the compile aborted:
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/crashcut/my.cvs/cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies'sudo ./rootdisk.sh "" /archive/debian/download 3700 2.3 "apus" C "" Password: I: ld.so on this architecture is ld.so.1 I: single locale mode (USE_LANGUAGE_CHOOSER = false) I: downloading required packages from files /home/crashcut/my.cvs/cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/EXTRACT_LIST_all /home/crashcut/my.cvs/cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk/EXTRACT_LIST_powerpc_apus E: Couldn't find package debootstrap can't find package 'ash' can't find package 'base-passwd' can't find package 'busybox' can't find package 'debootstrap' can't find package 'e2fsprogs' can't find package 'libnewt0' can't find package 'libpopt0' can't find package 'makedev' can't find package 'modutils' can't find package 'nano-tiny' can't find package 'netbase' can't find package 'net-tools' can't find package 'pump' can't find package 'slang1' can't find package 'whiptail' can't find package 'amiga-fdisk-bf' can't find package 'util-linux' can't find package 'powerpc-utils' can't find package 'eject' E: ./rootdisk.sh abort make[1]: *** [rootapus.bin] Error 255 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/crashcut/my.cvs/cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies' make: *** [build] Error 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (~/my.cvs/cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies)> Could someone explain what is going on, and how I can create boot-floppy-hfs.img? I can set aside a few hours daily to work on it; I have skills in C programming but never done anything close to the kernel. A hint would be highly appreciated, as well as a pointer to 'holy books' that I might need. Thanks, Fritz
