Hi, I've recently come into possession of a Power Macintosh G3 in beige case. I understand this to be oldworld mac. It has a 6GB IDE disk, a 4.3 GB SCSI disk and 320 MB RAM.
stable/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/images-1.44/boot-floppy-hfs.img was booted however after about 20 seconds the penguin in the middle of the screen gets covered by a red X and the floppy is no longer being read. I then tried the BootX installer (?) from stable/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/BootX_1.2.2.sit and was able to boot into the installer from MacOS (8.5). I have 10 years+ of Linux experience and 6+ years Debian experience but I am confused and scared when it comes to this MAC :-( I have no idea how to partition the disk, if I wipe out MacOS will I have any way of booting into the installer again? Now I am unsure how to proceed. Is d-i for oldworld ppc ready yet, should I be looking at d-i rather than the woody installer? Certainly from a hardware detection point of view I prefer the idea of using d-i. I'm not finding the woody install manual too enlightening at the moment but maybe it's the late hour. Any advice appreciated. -- Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.wehave.net/ Georgetown, Ontario, Canada Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
