Greetings: I've been attempting to get Debian-PPC installed on this machine for several days now, without much luck.
I've searched for an install 'how-to' and settled on the "G3-Beige" how to on the Debian Wiki. There is a lot of conflicting advice on installing on these old world machines in the wild, and it's quite confusing. Some say not to use Boot-X and to use quik instead for example. Which way is the debian way ? The instructions on the wiki aren't very relative to moi as I don't have any scsi drives in the box and don't have any to install. I do have an external scsi CD burner though. I have MacOS 9 installed in a 600 MB portion of the HDrive (12 GB), with the remaining formatted as Linux f/s by Apple's Disk Utility. I would appreciate if the experts here could help me out -- Here's what I've tried so far; Using the Debian-Etch-PPC net install CD, I booted up with my MacOS 9 CD. However when booted with system CD, it can't see the Debian Net install cd if I put it in the scsi CD drive. If I reverse this, and put the MacOS 9 in the scsi CD player, it boots fine, but sill doesn't see the Debian net install cd, in the onboard ata CD Drive. So, I can't start the install. I don't have a Linux workstation available to make boot floppies; Can these boot floppies be made in MacOS ? If so how ? All the instructions I've been able to grep assume that one has a Linux box handy to make boot floppies. Do I need to go the boot floppy route, or should I be able to boot with the MacOS system CD, and then mount the Debian net install on the other drive ? Suggestions/help welcome. Thanks ! -- Regards, S.D.Allen - Toronto GPG Key fingerprint: 7E6D 855D 8C03 15E4 1B12 2418 A71C 96CD 6843 1C91 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]