Hi, Brendan J Simon writes:
> I've just purchased a powerbook 17". I've tried (unsuccessfully) > installing debian using various howtos on the Net. I managed to get > the machine to boot and run the installer using the recent > "boot-floppies" in the woody distro, [...] Since you are having problem with boot-floppies anyway, and have access to a second box, you may want to try the new debian-installer from <URL:http://www.soziologie.ch/users/steinlin/d-i/>. In any case, I am sure that feedback would be very much appreciated (BTW, the instructions from the site above worked very well for a new 12" PowerBook). > For some reason I can't nfs mount an intel box to copy my backup fs to > my new partitions. wget fails too. I think this is because the .tgz > file is 3.1GB and the busybox version of wget is not so capable. In principle, with a second box you can forget about installers and netboot the whole thing with a kernel that supports nfsroot. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je p�zqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!
