I am following the instructions for "hard disk installer booting for NewWorld Macs" to install debian linux for powerpc on an iMac G3.
The 4 files ( yaboot, yaboot.conf, root.bin, linux.bin ) have been copied to the root level of the hard drive. boot the iMac to the open firmware prompt run the command: boot hd:0,yaboot and I get an error: not supported load size = 0 .... load size is too small any ideas? I dont have pdisk so I am not sure what partitions are on this system. When I try to boot from a different partition number the error says partition not found. Would that mean I only have a partition 0? ran "printenv". it displayed something about "partition : common" I also have not created a separate partition for debian on this iMac. I would like to replace the MAC OS with Debian. thanks, -Steve
