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Post #52,767
by rickmoen
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9/23/02 12:05:43 AM
9/23/02 12:32:31 AM
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New Re: Installing Gentoo PPC
I'll expand it and dump it to a floppy. Ooops, none of my Macs have floppy drives.

I realise you've already worked around the problem, by this point, but:

Got an x86 with a floppy drive? Got Linux on it? Install the hfsutils package, and you'll be able to copy the Macbinary-encoded download file onto a Mac-formatted 2MB floppy from there. (There's even a tk/tcl graphical front-end thing for that package.)

More than one way to remove that feline dermal layer.


If you lived here, you'd be $HOME already.
Expand Edited by rickmoen Sept. 23, 2002, 12:15:56 AM EDT
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Post #52,770
by tjsinclair
9/23/02 12:28:38 AM
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New Good idea

I guess I was trying to avoid floppies all-together and since CD-R blanks don't cost all that much I just went for it.

Update:
I've got the system built now, but I must have futzed up /etc/fstab since it's looking for a ReiserFS root partition and I'm using ext3.

Oh, well, it's fun to geek out from time to time....

Tom Sinclair

"Everybody is someone else's weirdo."
- E. Dijkstra
     Installing Gentoo PPC - (tjsinclair) - (2) - Sept. 19, 2002, 12:45:41 PM EDT
         Re: Installing Gentoo PPC - (rickmoen) - (1) - Sept. 23, 2002, 12:32:31 AM EDT
             Good idea - (tjsinclair) - Sept. 23, 2002, 12:28:38 AM EDT

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