[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I managed to get a debian system installed on my new G4 533 dual. I have > only limited experience with debian. Please forgive my ignorance.
No worries, welcome Fred! :) > I could not used the debian ramdisk image for some reason so > I used the linuxPPC Q4 ramdisk. (The debian ramdisk would not go past the > release notes and machine check screen.) > > So I had to moved the unconfigured.sh out of the way and do some > configuring by hand. Better use dpkg-reconfigure base-config . > Can some one give me an example on how to install a major package like > X11, off a cdrom using Apt? Apt always wants to go to the internet > instead of the cdrom. This might be because I have no cdrom entry in my > fstab. That would probably have to be fixed first, and if you haven't chosen to get packages from CD in the base config, you must run apt-cdrom when the CD is inserted to add it to /etc/apt/sources.list . > The system will not let me edit fstab even though I am "root" and > the disk is read/right. Has anyone ever heard of this? No, please give more information. > I managed to install many packages using dpkg but this is definitely the > hard way, right? Yes... > Using Apt how does one construct an install command from the package name. > i.e. if I have package foo-1.4.4.deb how do I get the package to install > from cdrom using apt? It doesn't work with the debs directly, apt-cdrom and then apt-get install <package name> . > Also, lastly, is there an X server that works with the GForce2 video in my > new G4? 4.x (in testing or unstable) has the nv driver, but I wouldn't expect that to work on PPC yet. You'll most likely have to use an fbdev server. Does rivafb work? -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
