Thanks to your timely mini-howto, I managed to install debian on the iMac with the flakey cdrom/cdrom-drive problem I posted about last night. There was only one thing that definately needs to be corrected in the document: where you suggest looking at /var/log/daemon.log to get the MAC address, we need to show how to make bootpd provide this debugging output (it's silent by default): by adding "-d 1" to the /etc/inetd.conf entry like this:
bootps dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/bootpd bootpd -i \ -t 120 -d 1
