Ok. Here are some more concrete suggestions regarding the installation guide. The are probably many other people without floppies or with only non-booting USB floppies.
http://www.uk.debian.org/releases/woody/powerpc/install For me, the hard part was finding which ISO image to use *and* which CD burner to ask the support staff for. In this case it was the rescue CD and Roxio Toast (which had to be dug out of storage and installed). Section 4.2.3, "Where to Find Installation Files", seems to focus only on floppy images. Section 4.1 mentions the official bootable cds[1]. After that there is no (obvious) mention in section 4 of CDs or common Macintosh software for burning ISO images. The next sections are "4.3 Creating Floppies from Disk Images", "4.4 Preparing Files for Hard Disk Booting", and "4.5 Preparing Files for TFTP Net Booting" These are great. [2] Here is the place to have a short section there about preparing for using ISO images and also a link to the vendor page. BTW normally, I burn CDs using linux on an Intel machine: mkisofs -v -r -T -J -V "Debian" -o /tmp/woody.img . su - # test image mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 /tmp/woody.img /mnt/cdrom/ ls /mnt/cdrom/ umount /mnt/cdrom/ # find a SCSI target cdrecord -scanbus # write target cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 /tmp/woody.img eject && exit Cheers, -Lars [1] I have been trying for 2 weeks to order the official CDs via the local student book shop. At this pace it will take more weeks, so I may eventually go straight to a vendor. [2] I had started with the instructions in section 4.4, which were very clear, but had to abort. By that time I had repartitioned the hard drive and could not boot from the hard drive. Not only that, but the Mac OS 9 install CD does not recognize the partitions nor seem to allow restoring/changing the partitions, so I had to find another method. Not having access to any floppy drive, the next choice is bootable CD. On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 07:29:14AM +0200, Lars D. Nood?n wrote: > > > > Floppyless installs should have more focus in the install guide. Many > > (most?) new macintoshes do not have a floppy drive. At my site we have > > about 50 macintoshes (G3/G4) but I've only seen two where a 3.5" drive has > > been added. A few have zip disks. > > > > Oh, yes, usb floppies won't work. That's mentioned in there too. > > Ummm, please give some concrete suggestions on how it could be more > focused. It's covered in a fair amount of detail. > > -- Lars Noodén Lektor Institutt for dokumentasjonsvitenskap HUM-FAK, Universitetet i Tromsø Breivika, N-9037 Tromsoe, Norway -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]