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List:       linux-mac68k
Subject:    Re: [linux-mac68k] Problem with installing Debian Potato
From:       david howe <david () ptvproductions ! com ! au>
Date:       2003-09-18 7:35:16
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Total agreement here...

I recently setup a quadra 700, the first install from potato was a bitch 
compared with the subsequent full net install of Woody.

david

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 04:21 pm, Ray Knight wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 10:23, Johan K=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=FC?=tt wrote:
> > When I try to install it on my 68k Performa 475, the installer at one
> > place asks me for the location of extracted macinstall.tgz. The problem
> > is that I can't find it from anywhere. All other files are downloadable
> > (or atleast were) from this site, but right now I couldn't find the file
> > with google. All debian sites have changed their structure and google
> > gives me only the old locations of the requested file.
> >
> > Johan
> > _______________________________________________
>
> Unless you have some special reason to use potato your much better off
> installing woody.  Woody (Debian 3.0) has a much improved kernel for the
> Macintosh and you'll get applications that are closer to the current
> versions.  After installing you'll probably want to get the 2.2.25
> kernel from http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-mac68k/

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