Hello everybody, I am new to Linux on the powerPC architecture, but I have considerable experience with Debian on i386. I thought installation should be more or less the same as on i386, but I was wrong. It seems to be essentail to know the mac to get started. I failed already in the first step: booting with the Debian boot disk on a powermac 9500.
The system has a working MacOS (I think version 8) but I want to replace it by Debian Linux. The manual says "[The power macintoshes] can boot Linux either directly from Open Firmware (via Quik), directly from the MacOS ROM (via miBoot), or from within MacOS (via BootX)" Since the powermac did not boot from the rescue disk (but ejected it!) I downloaded BootX_1.2.2.sit. When I wanted to start it, a program called stuffit came up and complained that the archive is not in stuffit format (I downloaded it several times using fetch in binary mode). So could anybody tell me how to boot Debian on my powermac (or tell me where this is documented). I think this should also go into the install instructions. Thanks. Rainer. -- Rainer Dorsch Abt. Rechnerarchitektur e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Uni Stuttgart Tel.: 0711-7816-215
