Installing Debian on PPC Mac

From a previous discussion – attached below…

Given that the error can be hunted down and corrected, what is a person to do with a computer that apparently won’t boot from HDD, floppy or CD?

It seems I’m stuck here with a failed installation!

Help!!

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On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:05:02PM -0400, Max Blanco wrote:

> hello,

> I am experiencing trouble with my ppc installation.

> I got to the step of re-booting my ppc under linux.

> Then I did re-boot.  Trouble is, I get the message

>  can't open /pci/mac-io/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

> repeating endlessly.  I can't access my cd rom drive, nor my floppy.

> Nothing seems to work.

> Please help me!!!

> max.

Perhaps you mis-typed it here in the mail, but boot-device should end

with 0:0 , not 0.0 . You can check after getting the error with

printenv

and looking at boot-device.

I'm assuming this is an oldworld model? If you need to reset that, type

setenv boot-device /pci/mac-io/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0

You might also be able to shorten it with an alias, try devalias to see

what it says.

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*------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------*

|      <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual>      |

|   debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net>   |

|            Chris Tillman        [EMAIL PROTECTED]          |

|                   May the Source be with you                   |

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