(Answer) (Category) Linux on PowerPC FAQ-O-Matic : (Category) Installation :
No CD-ROM, not much disk space, http installation
On a PPC 6100, I have only the stock 500 MB hard drive plus a 1GB that I added for the sole purpose of installing MkLinux. Not enough room to mirror the whole CD...
Luckily the "http" installation does appear to work, with a few weird quirks: 1) It uses http 1.0, so that virtual servers don't work (this breaks most mirrors) 2) Although it has entries for proxy servers, it appears not to use them at all
3) Put the web site, without http:// into the "web site" box
4) It looks for a file called ./RedHat/base/stage2.img -- put the distribution path, without leading slash, into the "path" dialog. In my case, I used "pub/Linux/distributions/mklinux/ppc."
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In my case, I really didn't feel like mirroring the entire distribution on one of my web servers, and I couldn't find a mirror capable of dealing with http 1.0, so I used a feature of Apache to proxy to the correct server.
Under my DEFAULT server (this is important when using virtual servers, as they will be ignored) I added these two lines:
ProxyPass /pub/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/ ProxyPassReverse /pub/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/
This sends every request starting with "pub" over to ibiblio's server (formerly known as metalab.unc.edu in NC.) Pointing the installer at my web server yielded properly formulated requests through Apache to their server, and the whole installation worked fine over the Internet.
mstowe@chicago.us.mensa.org
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