my sarge nightmare Downloaded sarge distro recently, both the net install and the full one... After placing the appropriate files from the cd in the 'linux kernels' foolder, and installing BootX, and setting it up properly..I boot into debian.. Almost immediately, after the preliminaries, i get... 'please select the directory containing the file powermac/ images-1.44/rescue.bin that you will use to install the kernel and module" cant find it on the cd because.... no such file or directory on cd so i point it to http instead, it gives a default address of "http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/" disks-powerpc/current/powermac/images-1.44/ rescue.bin" no such file or directory (the server returned 440) i enter an address that has worked before (archive debian org) and get up to installing the base system..unfortunately it now tells me that it can't find 'woody' on the cd... exact message ..failed getting release file 'file/instmnt/ dists/woody/release No sh*t..but it's a sarge installer? and a sarge cd.. I reboot and wade thru the murky instructions until 40 pages into the 'install procedure' chapter it finally starts talking about the actual install procedure..but it keeps talking about woody, not sarge. I go back and check my drive that I did in fact burn the right cd, and not some earlier one I might possibly have had on my system..no it's indeed 31r5. So upon reaching that point again I switch to 'net install' despite having a full cd of sarge in my drive.. after over 30 different ftp and http sites tried tho, i get 'no release file available'. even with the very same urls that worked previously.. this is all using the official sarge distro, using the supplied ramdisk.gz and linux kernel ON the cd. is this a joke? Anyone?
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