This is my question and Bob Hilliard's response. Unfortunately, neither of
his suggestions worked. Is 'instmnt' a literal string or just a placeholder?
Can anyone help me with this. Many thanks.

> Ok. Next stupid question:
>
> I'm hung up on the following step in the debian dbootsrap process. I'm
> installing from a local disk. Mac68k.
>
> Partition table:
> ...
> /dev/sda2     no      driver 4.3
> /dev/sda3     yes     linux swap
> /dev/sda4     yes     linux native    /target
> /dev/sda5     yes     linux native    /target/usr
> /dev/sda6     yes     linux native    /target/home
> /dev/sda7     no      free
>
> /dev/sdb1     no      hfs (debian archive is here)
> /dev/sdb2     no      partition map
> /dev/sdb3     no      driver 4.3
> /dev/sdb4     no      free
>
> I get to the screen where I'm supposed to give it the path to the debian
> archive. No matter what I enter, nothing happpens. Are the following
literal
> strings? I'm not offered "choices" as the help file suggests. The screen
> pops up with '/debian' as the default path.
>
> /instmnt/debian/.finderinfo
>
> /instmnt/debian/.resource
>
> /instmnt/debian
>
> Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Then again, maybe I'll
> answer my own question again.

     I haven't made a new installation in years (my last installation
was for bo), and don't know anything about the current boot disks, so
my guess may not be helpful.  I would try `/instmnt/debian/dev/sdb1'
or `/instmnt/dev/sdb1'.  If neither of those work, try the same without
the `/instmnt'.

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