On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 15:27, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Yesterday, I got an iMac (NewWorld) to play with at work, and decided to > install woody on it. It has no floppy drive, so the only bootable woody > installation media that I could find were ISO images at: > > http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/ > > which I burned onto CD-R.
If you have another machine on the local network, netbooting is the best option, in my opinion. http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/doc/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-install-tftp > I couldn't figure out how to tag a partition as swap, this being my first > PowerPC installation. the mac-fdisk help was not helpful). I continued > without one, and have since learned (from > http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/doc/mac-fdisk-basics.shtml linked from > the release notes) that it should be named 'swap'. I assume this would have > worked; if so, it should be mentioned directly in the release notes. The entire mac-fdisk-basics document is really required reading for installing on PowerPC. > Also, how can I help to test future PowerPC boot-floppies? Is there some > way to network-boot this beast, or do I have to continue to use CD-Rs? We definitely need more testers for the PowerPC boot-floppies! If you have trouble netbooting, someone is almost always on openprojects.net #debianppc (I'm "walters" on IRC). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]