On Wed, March 5, 2008 11:46, jesse stjohn wrote: > i dont have a computer on the network that i can > use to do a network boot or anything boot off the cdrom and, as long as the installer pkgtools run, you can attach a usb/firewire drive[1] with slackintosh pacakges on it (I'd rsync our repository, adrian's hw is damn fast ;-) ) and installpkg --reinstall --root=/your_mounted_ibook_root $the_packages if you've slackintosh isos handy and don't want to mirror, you could also just copy them to that disk and loop-mounting the images. > btw what is the best way to burn the iso for slackintosh i heard it ahs to > be burned really slow(the cdrom on the ibook is picky? apparently) I burn all my cds/dvds at full speed :| but, yes, I haven't an ibook nor a picky drive so far. In that case I'd go slower, it's a good rule of thumb. hth, ciao [1] just a little note: firewire drives won't be recognized until you modprobe the right modules (ieee1394 and ieee1394_sbp2 IIRC), I can't remember for the usb ones. In each case, all needed .ko are avalaible. -- Marco Bonetti Slackintosh Linux Project Developer: http://workaround.ch/ Linux-live for powerpc: http://workaround.ch/pub/rsync/mb/linux-live/ My webstuff: http://sidbox.homelinux.org/ My GnuPG key id: 0x86A91047