I've rescently downloaded the unstable version of debian(potato) for PPC(by download i mean everything in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac and ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/disks-powerpc/current/common/
) for reference: system: mac 8500 hd: 2 gigs ram: 16 megs I formated my hard drive using apple's drive setup(3 partitions, 1st 600m, 2nd 1.3 gigs, 3rd 64m) did the minimu instlation of Mac OS 8.0 of 1st partition. I put the linux kernel(renamed vmlinux) into the system folder along with root1440.bin(renamed ramdisk.image.gz). I ran the bootx 1.1.3 application, boots into installer just fine. 1st problem: couldn't see any of the drives i partitioned. I allowed it to redo the partition table putting the drives at the end of /dev/sda. I did one logical drive(/dev/sda5) of 64 megs at the end of the drive. another 1 gig(primaryO at the end of the drive(/dev/sda2) and a final(primary) 250m(/dev/sda3) what happened /dev/sda1? Anyway i ignored this and wnet through the instlation process. Luckilly it didn't effect the 1st partition created with apple's drive setup and MacOS boots fine without any file loss 2nd problem: I run the installer go through the steps and get stuck on the Instal Kernel and base modules stage. I reformated disks and created all the *.bin i downloaded off oa a friend's linux box(which i no longer have access to). The floppy didn't work(resc1440.bin) So i figured i'd skip this stage and move on to install base system. It does give me an ioctl fdflush failed (not fatal): Unknown error 515 but reads just fine for the first floppy. I don't know how to eject the floppy other then force eject, which evidently doens't work because whatever the first floppy i stuck in there was, it thinks all the other floppies are the same. anyway, these are the two problems i'm having, anyone who can help me with this at all it would be much apreciated. Clay Ginsburg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
