Re: resque.bin problem

2000-11-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 08:38:28PM -0800, hansen wrote: I copied rescue.bin onto a floppy using dd on a unix machine. It also failed to be recognized by my Mac G3. Is it corrupted? you cannot boot rescue.bin on a powerpc, instead you need boot-hfs.img or something close to that. and that is

Re: resque.bin problem

2000-11-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 06:07:08PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folloving giving instruction I formatted floppy disk using usual format command on my PC then I writed image of resque.bin using rawrite into this disk then I inserted this disk into MAC IIsi and powered it up MAC

Re: resque.bin problem

2000-11-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 28, Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I copied rescue.bin onto a floppy using dd on a unix machine. It also failed to be recognized by my Mac G3. Is it corrupted? you cannot boot rescue.bin on a powerpc, instead you need boot-hfs.img or something close to that. and that is

Re: resque.bin problem

2000-11-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:25:18PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Nov 28, Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I copied rescue.bin onto a floppy using dd on a unix machine. It also failed to be recognized by my Mac G3. Is it corrupted? you cannot boot rescue.bin on a powerpc,

resque.bin problem

2000-11-27 Thread Oleg Kokorin
Hello folloving giving instruction I formatted floppy disk using usual format command on my PC then I writed image of resque.bin using rawrite into this disk then I inserted this disk into MAC IIsi and powered it up MAC ejects my disk out and want not to boot from it. please help where I was

Re: resque.bin problem

2000-11-27 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello Oleg, I think you might find a lot more help for your specific hardware here: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe go WAY down that page until you see the check box for: debian-powerpc I know that macs boot in a completely different way and I don't own one so I can't really

Re: resque.bin problem

2000-11-27 Thread hansen
I copied rescue.bin onto a floppy using dd on a unix machine. It also failed to be recognized by my Mac G3. Is it corrupted? What did work was using BootX 1.2.2 which is a Mac program that launches linux. You need the kernel, ie the file called 'linux', and root.bin That will launch the debian