If everyone has this problem using floppies, why use floppies or why are there floppies and no documentation on the media you have or website of the distro which is still unnamed making what you call a firmware problem and what I call a inherent lacking in the oldworld macs when it comes to booting anything but the macos. I guess its a rom problem which is not open-anything.
He did say he was trying Debian, not a choice with a easy installer ;)
There is only documentation on the Debian port site for New World Macs, a strong indication that Old World Macs are poorly supported (if at all) by the PPC port of Debian. Note also it is a port, not a "standard" part of the Debian distribution.
I would recommend you repartition your drive with pdisk. If it is a OpenFirmware issue, OF might be confused by the non-standard (to its eyes) partition table created by fdisk. It is possible the way fdisk writes a partition table is similar to pdisk, but not completely compatible, causing error messages that don't point directly to the partition table.
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