How do I use those PowerMac images-1.44?

[Garry Roseman]

I am exploring the possibility of planting the Debian GNU/Linux 
potatoe on my PowerWave 150, PowerMac clone computer.  Booting from 
CD is a problem because it is a non-Apple CD-ROM drive and typical 
CD's, burned with the Apple CD/DVD Driver as the driver in the driver 
partition(s), will not boot this machine.  I could re-burn the CD 
myself and (probably) make it bootable on this machine using my own 
edited copy of the Apple CD/DVD Driver, but I was trying instead to 
make the boot floppy.  I'd like to have a Linux boot floppy in any 
case.  I got the rescue 1.44-image named "rescue.bin" from the 
<potatoe>/PowerMac/images-1.44 directory using macbinary ftp transfer 
mode, but I can't do anything with this "image".  I can't do anything 
with any of these images.  They are not decoded by Stuffit Expander 
and are not recognizable by Disk Copy as MacOS disk images.  How do I 
make a rescue disk from the binary image?

I read the ppc installation guide and didn't find any mention of this problem.
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  Garry Roseman  <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>