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What's up with Sarge? no install

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Name: dominicus
Date: March 14, 2007 at 15:08:41 Pacific
OS: none yet
CPU/Ram: 450Mhz 1Gig RAM
Product: Apple
Comment:

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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