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.
Yes, indeed he did, sorry I missed the 5 word sentence in the second message.
I found very little trouble following the deb instructions to install on either 68k or ppc from memory requiring the use of HDSC setup. You could do this from floppy once you translate the AUX rubbish. OS9's Drive setup also works well.
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/install
A lot of reading, a fair bit about how unreliable a floppy install is and how the cd is not bootable on a oldworld mac with or without the "c" key and a work around.
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.
pdisk compared to a gui Macintosh tool? mac-fdisk is mentioned in the docs.
Have we got past the need for a macos partition for the bootloader on oldworld macs or is there enough room on a floppy to hold the kernel now. On my last deb install there was still no option to create a boot floppy.
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