Re: installer won't boot on Mac IIcx

2000-10-05 Thread Andre Berger
Richard Jeantheau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My apologies if this has been covered -- I'm brand new to the list and to Debian. I am attempting to install potato on a Mac IIcx. Go to debian-68k@lists.debian.org, you'll find the right kind of people there :) (But of course also stay subscribed

Re: installer won't boot on Mac IIcx

2000-10-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:56:26AM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: Installation on a Mac is usually hard -- the folks who complain in articles on Linux installations on PeeCees should try _other platforms_ before. But don't be discouraged, if your hardware supports Linux (PMMU, FPU and so on),

Re: installer won't boot on Mac IIcx

2000-10-05 Thread Christian Pernegger
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:15:13AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: folks who complain about GNU/Linux installations should try and install Windows (on a blank unpartitioned disk). In my experience that's the only thing that more or less works? Try an older disk with a few badblocks - uaarg!

Re: installer won't boot on Mac IIcx

2000-10-05 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:17:15PM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote: On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:15:13AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: folks who complain about GNU/Linux installations should try and install Windows (on a blank unpartitioned disk). In my experience that's the only thing that

installer won't boot on Mac IIcx

2000-10-04 Thread Richard Jeantheau
My apologies if this has been covered -- I'm brand new to the list and to Debian. I am attempting to install potato on a Mac IIcx. Following the Mac install instructions to the letter --I set up Penguin(18) with linux as the kernel and root.bin as the ramdisk -- hit boot now in Penguin -- Finder