Hi, I have a PowerMac 6500/250 that I would like to put Debian on. I made a floppy of the hfs boot disk containing the miboot loader from 06072000 and attempted to boot my 6500. The floppy drive attempts to read the disk but then ejects it and continues booting from the hard drive. I replaced the floppy drive but the same thing happened. I tried the floppy disk in an 8500/180 machine I have and it drops right into the boot loader and the kernel loads and I'm prompted for the root fs disk. The only thing that I know to try yet is to use the floppy drive from my 8500 in the 6500, since maybe I have two slightly bad floppy drives. Are there any other things I should be looking for or variables that need to be altered in Open Firmware?
I would like to make this machine sans MacOS but could I use BootX to bootstrap the initial installation and then hope that later bootstrappers that don't rely on MacOS work? I am assuming that once the kernel is resident in memory after being loaded from BootX that its fine to scrap the entire parition that MacOS was on, since Linux wouldn't be access it for anything right? Thanks for any help. Kevin -- Kevin M. Myer Systems Administrator Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 (717)-560-6140
