Hello Nathan, It worked! The Debian installer started as you said it would do. But, when it comes to the section: "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules", the dbootstrap is unable to mount the Rescue Floppy. The error message I get is:
Mount /dev/loop0 (type ext2) on /floppy: wrong filesystem type, or bad superblock on/dev/loop0 Unable to mount the Rescue Floppy. It seems like the dbootstrap program assume that the Rescue Floppy has an ext2 filesystem. I tried to mount the resc1440.bin file with: mount -o loop resc1440.bin /instmnt and, the Rescue Floppy was mounted as msdos filesystem. Is this correct? However, to go on with the installation I will try to convert the Rescue Floppy to ext2 filesystem, as dbootstrap wants to have it that way. Has anyone any better idea? BTW, it's a Power Macintosh 8600/250. Please answer me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I'm not currently subscriber of this mailing list!) CH At 23:00 1999-11-08 -0800, you wrote: >Hey Christian, > >I myself am currently working my way through the installation process with >my iMac. You didn't specify your system, but you might find the following >page helpful: > >http://www.debian.org/~wmono/powerpc/ > >By the way, on older PMacs, you probably can use root1440.bin to get into >the Debian installer directly. Rename root1440.bin "ramdisk.image.gz" and >place it in your system folder. Put BootX in with your control panels and >the BootX extension in your extensions folder. Get >ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/imaclinux/boot/vmlinux.gz and >place the uncompressed vmlinux file in the "Kernals" folder that comes with >BootX and put that in your system folder too. > >Reboot. When BootX comes up, check the boxes "ramdisk" and "no video >driver" and write "ramdisk_size=8192 panic=20" in the "kernal arguments" >line. Select Linux. > >You may or may not get the Linux dbootstrap installer to work. If you >don't, you can always boot into the bash shell by adding "init=/bin/sh" to >your kernal arguments in BootX. Visit the link at the top of this message >if dbootstrap doesn't work. > >Good luck. > > >Nathan Olsen >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >"It is our nature to put all knowledge into context in order to tell >a story, and to re-create the world by this means." > > --Edward O. Wilson, _Consilience_
