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, Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > The only floppy, that gives me some kind of feedback is the > > boot-floppy-hfs.img. After being read, an icon of a floppy with tux on it, > > apears. But nothing else happens. > > Hmmm... this is the woody floppy and it should work, I guess this might by a > floppy media issue -> try another floppy. > > Always write floppies with "dd" and compare them with "cmp" after writing. > > Because of unresolved legal problems with miboot, the official builds of the > new debian-installer cannot contain working (boot-) floppies images. But they > are available at > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy-2.4/ > > (Be "warned" that these are unstable builds of d-i which install Debian sid. > When rc3 is is available, we'll make sure that there will be unofficial > rc3-builds with miboot, which then can be used to install sarge.) > > You could also try ../floppy/ which contains floppy images with 2.6 kernel - > if you have success with those please report it. (I never had.) > > > Can someone please give me a pointer at what to do? I really want to > > resolve this issue, it has been occupiing me for a while. > > Feel free to ask again, if needed... > > regards, > Holger > > > -- FelipeFonseca http://felipe.hipercortex.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
