> Don't be so sure about that. After I installed MacOS 9.1 on the box, I
> was able to mount those floppies and take a look at them. But when I
> wanted to write to them, within MacOS I just got an error message
> saying, that it won't work. Cool, eh?
> If you still have MacOS on your drive you can
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 05:11:40PM +0100, Patrick Bachmann wrote:
> Another weird thing is, that the machine was able to boot from the
> MacOS-Disk.
> What is different about the Debian Install CDs? There should be some way to
> make them bootable on an OldWorld-Machine.
It's pretty messy to ma
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Patrick Bachmann wrote:
Don't be so sure about that. After I installed MacOS 9.1 on the box, I
was able to mount those floppies and take a look at them. But when I
wanted to write to them, within MacOS I just got an error message
saying, that it won't work. Cool, eh?
If you
Hello vinai
On Friday 25 February 2005 03:38 pm, vinai wrote:
> And I
> don't think it's a problem with the floppy drive itself - I put in the
> floppies in MacOS 9, and they showed up on the desktop and I was able to
> see the kernel file on the disk.
Don't be so sure about that. After I install
On Thursday 24 February 2005 08:29 pm, Rick_Thomas wrote:
> Old floppy drives, especially if infrequently used, get really dusty
> inside. This interferes with reading.
Thanks, you got a point there. I always thought the other way round, that my
own floppy drives didn't do what they were suppose
Hello Holger,
On Thursday 24 February 2005 11:12 am, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > That's how I did it for all floppies. cmp can't find any difference. But
> > the images just don't get recognized by the Macintosh to be bootable.
>
> might be, that you mac drive has some problems reading floppies writt
Hey Folks,
No luck booting from a floppy or making it through the installer. Here
is what I did, and hopefully, folks can point me in the right direction.
I went to http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ and the first
thing I tried was the "floppy" set of powerpc images. However, my 850
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 20:47, Patrick Bachmann wrote:
> Hi Holger,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:36 pm, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > Hmmm... this is the woody floppy and it should work, I guess this might by
> > a floppy media issue -> try another floppy.
> Well, I we
Hi Patrick,
On Thursday 24 February 2005 02:47, Patrick Bachmann wrote:
> Well, I went to Staples and got me a new set of floppies that even have a
> two year guarantee on them, but it still didn't work.
well, you might use brand new floppies, but the problem could also be your old
floppy drive.
Hello Felipe,
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 05:08 pm, Felipe Fonseca wrote:
> I managed to install woody on a 8600 using BootX on MacOS 8.
Sorry to tell you, but I can't go the BootX way. I don't have a MacOS version
which works on that maschine, and I'm not really into filesharing and stuff.
Hi Holger,
Thanks for your reply.
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:36 pm, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hmmm... this is the woody floppy and it should work, I guess this might by
> a floppy media issue -> try another floppy.
Well, I went to Staples and got me a new set of floppies that even have a two
Hi,
I managed to install woody on a 8600 using BootX on MacOS 8. I'm not
using it anymore, because I have some weird hardware problem that
gives me segfault in many different programs, but after a lot of work
I had X running E16 and other cute things.
f
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:36:34 +0100, Holge
Hi Patrick,
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 18:02, Patrick Bachmann wrote:
> This OldWorld-maschine doesn't want to boot the floppies, I'm trying to
> feed it with.
> There are various floppies I have tried, e.g. the woody and sarge boot
> floppies and the floppies of the rc2 of the debian installer.
Hi folks,
This OldWorld-maschine doesn't want to boot the floppies, I'm trying to feed
it with.
There are various floppies I have tried, e.g. the woody and sarge boot
floppies and the floppies of the rc2 of the debian installer.
The only floppy, that gives me some kind of feedback is the
boot-
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