Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > I am new to Linux on the powerPC architecture, but I have considerable > experience with Debian on i386. I thought installation should be more > or less the same as on i386, but I was wrong. It seems to be essentail > to know the mac to get started. I failed already in the first step: > booting with the Debian boot disk on a powermac 9500. <snip> > Since the powermac did not boot from the rescue disk (but ejected it!) > I downloaded BootX_1.2.2.sit. When I wanted to start it, a program > called stuffit came up and complained that the archive is not in > stuffit format (I downloaded it several times using fetch in binary > mode).
Nonetheless, both these things suggest that your boot disk and the BootX Stuffit archive are corrupt. Is there another Mac around you can try your boot disk with? Stephen
