Geez, I would first try booting from the CD and doing an install the real way. It's about a billion times easier than all this. If you boot off the CD, the kernel chokes when trying to mount the ramdisk? I certainly hope not. I drool at the thought of a dual G4.
a Michel D�nzer wrote: > > [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 > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
