On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 08:22:46PM -0800, Forrest L Norvell wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 04:24:03PM -0800, Matthew Richardson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to get Debian 3.0r1 running as the only OS on a beige G3. So > > far, I've gotten through the install process and rebooted....and > > nothing. On the first reboot, I get an Open Firmware-type screen with > > the message "Can't open device". Subsequent reboots get the dread > > floppy-with-question-mark on the screen. I'm pretty sure that it is a > > problem with Open Firmware and Quik, but not sure how to solve it. I > > tried the OF patch in the System Disk download to no avail. Also, I > > found the Quik patch quik-first.b-g3, but am not sure how to apply that > > patch. If anyone can help a newbie, I'd appreciate it. > > Not to be a party pooper, but I don't know of anyone who's > successfully gotten Debian working with Quik on a beige G3. I tried > earnestly for about a month a year and a half ago and got nowhere, and > I've seen several other unsuccessful attempts cross this list since. I > think you're best off with a small MacOS partition and BootX. Unless > somebody else has come up with some wizardry since then.
We finally figured out on the list a couple months ago (actually I think Michel _remembered_) that quik couldn't handle G3, but that a patch was available. Michel provided the patched quik module that Forrest mentioned. -- "The way the Romans made sure their bridges worked is what we should do with software engineers. They put the designer under the bridge, and then they marched over it." -- Lawrence Bernstein, Discover, Feb 2003