I finally went out and bought linuxppc (AUS$15) and yellowdog (AUS$15) disks so I can boot into Linux. I don't plan on installing either, I just wanted a boot disk so I could untar the debian base2_2.tgz file and then use apt.
I downloaded ybin (0.11), yaboot (0.5) and hfsutils and managed to install them on a 800K HFS bootstrap partition (yes it is the first partition, well 2nd partition after the partition table itself). I get an error message saying "can't read config file" so I can't load linux. I can't press tab as the config file was not read. I have tried putting in commands manually at the boot: prompt. eg. "boot: hd:4,/boot/vmlinux ro" but I get the following error "Image not found...... try again" What am I doing wrong ? How can I get debian to boot ? I can't even get the LinuxPPC installation to boot of the hard disk. Thanks, Brendan Simon.
