On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:50:25PM +0200, CK wrote: > hi, > > I recently snapped up a beige g3 (233MHz,of2.0f1,160Mb Ram, no hd) > for 50EUR and found an unused 800Mb ide drive I try to install debian > (3.0.23) on. I read all the docs and archives I could find (hell I > even dug up my forth reference...) but > > I can't get it to boot from the HD so I have a couple of questions: > (I should mention that I applied the of patches from apples sytem > disk) > > is it possible to boot this machine using quik at all ? > (if not something less ambigous should be in the docs) > > Does anyone on this list have this machine booting from internal > hd (/ide/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:n) and is willing to share config & of settings ?
We have one person (Michel Lanners if memory serves?) on the list who boots his beige G3 using quik - but it's from a scsi drive. Most people with beige G3s use BootX. > > Is there a document describing how to make a hsf floppy on linux > to boot it with a rescue kernel (the hsf install disk won't let > me choose an alternate root file system) ? http://cvs.debian.org/powerpc-specials/miBoot/patch-floppy-image.pl -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual> | | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To Have, Give All to All (ACIM) | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
