On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 06:39:29PM -0500, Ron Murray wrote: > I've been having lots of problems getting woody installed on a Power > Mac G3 minitower (300MHz processor, 128M RAM). Being an oldworld box, I > can't boot it from CD. I tried installing from floppies, but that tended > to mostly crash just after checking disk partitions on initial kernel > load. I eventually downloaded the boot files and saved them on one of > the two hard drives in an HFS partition, and managed to get the > installer running using BootX.
You may also want to give the debian-installer on oldworld pmac a try. It needs testing and miboot is still problematic from a legal point of view, but Jeremie Koenig built floppy sets based on the beta3 of the debian installer, which should mostly allow you to install debian/sarge on old world. I don't remember the URL out of hand though, and it is not (yet) available from the official debian-installer web pages. Friendly, Sven Luther
