Hi I have a Blue&White G3 (Server) and I was trying to install debian on it.
My OF version says Apple PowerMac1,1 1.1f4 BootROM built on 04/09/99 OF version 3.1.1 I tried everything I could imagine, everything that I could find online... This is the story... let's see if someone can help me. It's not a CD problem: I already used it to install debian on my laptop with no problems. If I boot off the cd, I get to the booting screen, and when I hit enter, it goes to a white screen with some quiesce-something message. Then it freezes. If I try to boot to OF and then type "boot cd:\\yaboot" I end up on the same booting screen as the step before, and end up frozen again. If I try downloading the files (as indicated on the how-to in debian.org) I get the same kind of problem. I tried adding the 'video=ofonly' with no success. Yaboot says welcome to yaboot version 0.9. Then it says wrong partition 1 signature, and after I (hit enter/type debian/type install)(<-- depending on the installation type) it spits the white screen that says STARTOFOUTPUT ------------------------------ ... ok copying OF device tree...done Calling quiesce ... DO-QUIESCE finishedbooting... ----------------------------- ENDOFOUTPUT I don't understand what's wrong... I thought it might be the fact that I had 2 video cards. I took the second one out, leaving the original one in, reset PRAM just in case (3 or 4 times) and nothing. Things that might affect (maybe, I'm not sure): I have 1 IDE drive (where I want to install debian) and 2 scsi drives (that are not going to become part of the install). The IDE drive shows up as /dev/hdc or /dev/ata1.0 for pdisc... Any help will be greatly appreciated. Benja