If you are using BootX, I downloaded the ramdisk from the ftp site and put it in the system folder. Then in BootX, I clicked on options and made it use the ramdisk. then you can boot off of the ramdisk and install off of the CD.
on 00.12.31 20:48, Garry Roseman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 21:20 -0600 12/9/00, Garry Roseman wrote: >> I installed the Debian Potato release w/ dmasound onto a PowerMac >> 7600/G3 some weeks ago. I've been going up the learning curve >> fairly smoothly. Now that I have the fundamentals working > ... > > I'm celebrating on New Year's Eve by installing Debian Linux on my > "other" computer. Happy New Year to all gracious Linux folk! > > I bought the new official Potato CD set, 2.2r2, and tried installing > Debian ppc on my PowerMac clone, a PowerComputing PowerWave 150 (it's > an Old World PCI Mac, like a 7600). > > First, the CD is not bootable on that computer or on my PowerMac > 7600. Huh? The Linuxppc 2000 CD boots just fine on these computers. > <snort> [Could I make a bootable installation CD on my already > functioning Debian PowerMac 7600? It has a Plextor CD writer and dual > boots Debian Potato 2.2 and MacOS 9.] > > Second, the install floppies can't be used for installing. The first > image, the boot floppy, which I created on my functioning Debian > Linux box using dd, does boot the PowerComputing machine and then > asks for the root disk. When I insert the root disk and hit return > nothing happens. There is no response, as if the keyboard is dead. > I tried this with the Apple adb keyboard that is standard equipment > on that computer and also with a Microsoft USB keyboard that is > attached to a USB board on the PCI bus. Of course, I tried making a > new root disk but that doesn't help. I tried disconnecting one or > the other of the keyboards but that doesn't help either. (The > PowerComputing machine had been successfully running Linuxppc 2000 > and both keyboards were working fine with that older kernel.) > > I checked the list archive and Ethan's web site; it didn't help me. > > There is something I don't know --- how to install Potato 2.2r2 onto > an old world Mac. Thank you kindly for advice.
