On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:21:03PM -0500, Garry Roseman wrote: > At 21:33 -0400 9/6/00, John R. MacPhail wrote: > >Have you tried BootX? Try pointing BootX at ramdisk.image.gz (as a > >RAM disk image, no decompression needed). If that runs, then you are > >rolling. > > That will work, as long as I have a MacOS partition (which I do). > Actually I have a whole darned Linuxppc2000 installation on the > computer. Now I'm trying to learn about and compare Debian. I like > the Debian thinking. My question was partly theoretical; I'd like to > know how I could install the Debian system on a hypothetical client's > PowerMac computer using only a floppy drive. I already know that I > can do such an install from the Linuxppc2000 CD-ROM. Installing the > Debian distrib onto a PowerMac from floppy only is impossible because > I find no tool for making a floppy on MacOS from the Debian binary > floppy image.
As said (many times today actually) on this list, use Disk Copy. You have to exercise some woogy magic on file types and creators first, though. > > So far the right way to install onto a PowerMac (e.g. 7600 or > PowerCenter etc.) appears to be to allocate a partition to MacOS, put > bootx on it and the ramdisk compressed image, and boot into the > Debian installer. I haven't done that yet and my next task is to > discover what tools are available in that ramdisk kernel for > completing the installation. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
