Installation woes

[Kulwant B. <kul...@bt...>]

Hello all,

I am still having trouble installing the 2.4 kernel. Everything I have tried
so far, results in a problem one way or the other. 

I can boot (using boothack bh010623) an installer with bootstrap --apus -k linux.bin -r root.bin root=/dev/ram 60nsram nobats video=pm2fb:mode:1024x768-75

and can subsequently mount the hda1 root and hda3 swap partitions and even an Amiga FFS
partition. I can initialise the network connection (Broadband via PCMCIA ethernet). 

If I try to use the menu command for "Base System Installtion" and choose

1. network as the source, it gets as far as extracting the various files (after validating)
and the progress bar gets all the way to the right with the last file being
extracted being
/target/var/cache/apt/archives/whiptail_0.50.17-9.6_powerpc.deb...

and then I get an error message: 
    debootsrap exited with an error (return value 1)
    <continue>


I have copied the contents of the kernel-image-apus_2.4.20-1.lha from
sourceforge.net to sda2 which I mount as /user or /home. 

2. If I choose the /home or /user as source, then it says that it could not
find a directory containing rescue.bin or apus/drivers.tgz even though I put
them there and I know they are there! 

If I try to "install kernel & driver modules" by using the http source, then I
get a file not found error for apus/images-1.44/rescue.bin and
apus/drivers.tgz. 

I remember seeing a message about not being able to find basedebs.tar at one
point too, but cannot remember how I got that. 

What am I doing wrong? 

Kind regards,

Kulwant