Adrian McMenamin wrote:
When I mentioned this problem before people were kind enough to point me in the direction of rescue disks that allow me to boot the box, but they don't really help me install Linux at all.
Have you tried making a small mac partition and copying the contents of the floppy accross to that partition.
I believe this should work to boot the machine? It does here although I get a warning saying the system folder is from a floppy before the desktop loads, once bootx is installed you dont need to get that far. :)
If so you may need to make a extensions folder and control panels folder in the system folder you copied, then install the Bootx bits and kernel into these.
This is currently working on this mac using the disktools disk for os8.5, I guess it should work for you also with whichever disktools vrsion that boots your mac.
The problem then would be getting the bootx and kernel files required off the cd. I'm sure someone would help you there
I have also bought (via ebay) a Mac OS 8 cd (which I simply cannot install or boot) and a set of Mac OS X disks (which were advertised on ebay rather badly and so I didn't realise they were for a powerbook) - trying to boot this results in a sign of a torn up folder.
Unless your old beige G3 is one of the last it should boot from the os8 cd by holding the "c" key during startup? Did you get a boot disk image to work, if so what os was that for?
Is there anything I can do other than pay through the nose for an operating system I don't want?
All you should require is the boot floppy's system folder.
Good luck again
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