Install woes

[Francois P. <fp...@pr...>]

Guys,

Once again I'm attemtping to install APUS onto my Amiga PPC system and am
running into problems. Hardware is as follows

Amiga 4000
Elbox 7 slot zorro bus board (with DMA mod to slot 7)
4091 controller
Cybervision 64/3D
AriadneII
CyberStormPPC 604/233
Quantum Viking II 9 gig drive attached to the 4091 via HD cables and
addapters.
No CD-ROM
96megs ram

Software (From APUS site)

2.4.9 Kernel
LinuxPPC 2000 Ramdisk Image
Boothack 629


Ok - Drive is partitioned into 4 seperate partitions under HDtoolbox
swap, /, and /usr, final partition is a 600meg FFS partition.

Attempting to install Linux PPC CD from from the Compendium CD (LinuxPPC
1999) CD. I have managed to install with this combination before but can
be damned if I can get it to install now.

Steps for install as follows

1) Partition disks and ensure they have correct ID's (swap, ext2 etc)
2) Copy contents of Linux PPC CD to ffs partition (/dev/sda4)
3) Change resolution to 800x600-70 as this is all that will work with BS
4) Install LinuxPPC (selcting /dev/sda4 as the source of Software)
5) Bombs out with error as follows

 	"Error unpacking archive"

Boothack command is as follows

Bootstrap --apus -k vmlinux -r ramdisk.image.gz -root=/dev/ram
-video=cyber3d:800x600-70 nobats


Ok - anyone have any bright ideas. Other questions I have

. Can I do an FTP install of the latest LinuxPPC (I just get errors
regarding the lack of /base/hdlist) Obviously I can't get the folks at
LinuxPPC to add this to all their mirrors. But this seems to be the only
way.

. I gave up attempting to install (my prefered) Debian PPC install due to
the rescue.bin disk image. How do you get around this. yes, I've read the
documentation and damned If i can get it to work. I just get error
messages when trying to mount the image.

. Is there any plans to be able to install either YellowDog or Mandrake.

. Ok - if I do manage to get this LinuxPPC installed, it is really out of
date. Is there a way to do a bulk RPM update to bring me into the 21st
Century :)

Any and all help appreciated

re

Francois