Re: Powermac 9500 won't recognize rescue floppy

2002-07-06 Thread Colin Foran
> > BTW, if the floppy is not the problem; you can work around it temporarily > by not choosing a keyboard map. > > -- > yeah, thats what ive been doing, its working great. ill dedicate the rest of the night to the installation, just didnt want to proceed untill i had heard from someone on the key

Re: Powermac 9500 won't recognize rescue floppy

2002-07-06 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 09:56:46PM -0400, Colin Foran wrote: > ok, this just keeps getting better > the woody image did work, and i managed to make it to the installer, but after > picking my keyboard type, no keys register. > ... > i chose both extended and standard, no dice. > Any ideas with this

Re: Powermac 9500 won't recognize rescue floppy

2002-07-06 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 09:56:46PM -0400, Colin Foran wrote: > ok, this just keeps getting better > the woody image did work, and i managed to make it to the installer, but after > picking my keyboard type, no keys register. > ... > i chose both extended and standard, no dice. > Any ideas with this

Re: Powermac 9500 won't recognize rescue floppy

2002-07-06 Thread Colin Foran
ok, this just keeps getting better the woody image did work, and i managed to make it to the installer, but after picking my keyboard type, no keys register. ... i chose both extended and standard, no dice. Any ideas with this one? and again, thanks for your patience everyone -cheers -- To UNSUB

Re: Powermac 9500 won't recognize rescue floppy

2002-07-06 Thread Colin Foran
> > Ah. Are you using boot images from potato? They don't have video=ofonly > in the boot arguments, which you might need. Try the woody images instead, > if these are from the potato archive. > yeah, i am using the potatoe images. ill give the woody images a shot now -cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Powermac 9500 won't recognize rescue floppy

2002-07-06 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 12:33:02PM -0400, Colin Foran wrote: > > > > I've tried using a different set of floppies, still no dice. So far ive tried > 6 > different disks, still not getting anywhere. > But just for the hell of it after the hfs boot image floppy was ejected, I > threw > the rescue.

Re: Powermac 9500 won't recognize rescue floppy

2002-07-06 Thread Colin Foran
> > > What kind of video card are you using? I seem to recall a few > problems with some of the earlier ATI cards. > I'm using the old 4mb ATI Mach64 card that came with it. New hardware wont go in until ive got Debian up and running -Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Powermac 9500 won't recognize rescue floppy

2002-07-06 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 12:33:02PM -0400, Colin Foran wrote: > all. This mean anything to anyone? It seems as though the computer hasnt > died, im > just not getting any video. What kind of video card are you using? I seem to recall a few problems with some of the earlier ATI cards. Brad

Re: Powermac 9500 won't recognize rescue floppy

2002-07-06 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 11:45:19PM -0400, Colin Foran wrote: > Thanks for setting me straight Chris. But after booting with the > hfs-boot-floppy.img inserted, i still dont get anywhere. You can hear the > drive > being accessed, and the tux/mac computer icon comes up, but then my screen > goes

Re: Powermac 9500 won't recognize rescue floppy

2002-07-06 Thread Colin Foran
> I've tried using a different set of floppies, still no dice. So far ive tried 6 different disks, still not getting anywhere. But just for the hell of it after the hfs boot image floppy was ejected, I threw the rescue.bin disk in and it was being accessed for a good minute and a half. I rebooted

Re: Powermac 9500 won't recognize rescue floppy

2002-07-05 Thread Colin Foran
Thanks for setting me straight Chris. But after booting with the hfs-boot-floppy.img inserted, i still dont get anywhere. You can hear the drive being accessed, and the tux/mac computer icon comes up, but then my screen goes black and the floppy is spit out, without a request for root.bin in sight

Re: Powermac 9500 won't recognize rescue floppy

2002-07-05 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 12:21:10PM -0400, Colin Foran wrote: > Hey guys. I've downloaded all of the floppy images for booting my 9500 > into the installer, but whenever I boot with the rescue disk in the > floppy drive, it simply gets spit out. If I insert the disk into the > system while running M

Re: Powermac 9500 won't recognize rescue floppy

2002-07-05 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 12:21:10PM -0400, Colin Foran wrote: > Hey guys. I've downloaded all of the floppy images for booting my 9500 > into the installer, but whenever I boot with the rescue disk in the > floppy drive, it simply gets spit out. If I insert the disk into the > system while running M

Powermac 9500 won't recognize rescue floppy

2002-07-05 Thread Colin Foran
Hey guys. I've downloaded all of the floppy images for booting my 9500 into the installer, but whenever I boot with the rescue disk in the floppy drive, it simply gets spit out. If I insert the disk into the system while running MacOS 9.1, it gives me a "Filesystem not recongnized, would you like t