On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 07:45:43PM -0400, John S. J. Anderson wrote: > > I have a bastard 7500 (it's running a 166 604e card out of an 8600) > that I'm trying to get Debian installed on. This machine has run > PowerPC Linux and SUSE in the past, so I know it's possible, and I've > been running Debian on x86s for several years now, so I'm generally > familiar with Debian installs. > > But I can't seem to boot into the damn installer. > > I downloaded the 2.2r7 powerpc binary #1 disk (about 2 hours before > the 3.0 release announcement... 8^/=) and burned a CD. I can't boot > from that, even though I can mount it under both Linux and MacOS.
OldWorlds can't boot from a Debian CD > I grabbed rescue.bin and root.bin and made floppies. I can't boot from > rescue.bin -- the system just spits the disk back out and continues on > with the boot process. > > Can anybody give me any insight on how to get this thing into the > installer? I think I'll be okay after that... Instead of rescue.bin, you need hfs-boot-floppy.img. It's all in the manual. > Other information that might affect what advice you give me: > > Disk space is pretty limited on this box, so the MacOS install is > very, very small -- it's basically a minimal system folder and > BootX. So, a solution that didn't involve lots of mucking about under > MacOS would be better. If you have BootX, then just load linux.bin for the kernel and the ram disk with root.bin, you're set. No need to burn floppies. -- *------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 | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
