but still, that would not explain that error. it should say something else, like "corrupt partition table", not what it says...
It took me a while to figure out it was the partition table was causing my problem. I don't remember the exact error messages I saw, it was several years ago I ran into the problem. If I remember correctly, I had to partition/format with DriveSetup first to remove all traces of the fdisk created partitions, and then use pdisk.
i no longer have any kind of macos on the hdd
Beige macs need a bootable Mac OS to bootstrap Linux, in my experience. New World Macs use yaboot or similar.
http://penguinppc.org/projects/hw/pmac.shtml, which was linked from http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/
I was never able to get miboot or quik to work satisfactorily on my Linux-on-Mac installs.
You or others may have other experiences.
I have no specific experience installing Debian on PPC, only MkLinux, LinuxPPC, YellowDog, Mandrake, SuSE, and NetBSD
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