I have a 500 MHz Cube and a 2.2r2 CD. I burned the CD myself, and it is readable when I boot Mac OS 9.04. MD5 checksums are OK. I got the image at ftp://debian.uchicago.edu/debian-cd/stable/official/2.2_rev2/powerpc/, selecting NONUS.iso (652080 Kb Fri Dec 8 06:49:00 2000).
Under OS 9, I used Drive Setup to create 3 partitions: 1. 1 MB (smallest allowed) 2. 5 gig HFS+ (for dual booting) 3. remaing ~15 gig HFS standard The notes I found suggested the inital partition needed to be of type Apple_Bootstrap, but that is not an option from Drive Setup. I tried both HFS standard and HFS+. I reinstalled OS 9 on the 5 gig partition. I am unable to boot from the cd by either (1) holding down c or (2) invoking apple-alt-o-f and then entering either (1) boot cd:\\yaboot or (2) boot cd:\install\powermac\yaboot or (3) those two commands with a comma after the colon. (I've seen both forms suggested on the list.) OF gives me the following: Apple PwerMac 5, 1 3.2f1 BootROM built on 07/10/00 at 17:11:57 With either of the yaboot commands, Debian tries to boot but I get the message "wrong partition 1 signature" and then the screen flashes a couple of times, there is another message I can't quite read, then the system hangs (monitor goes blank). Scanning the list archive, I found another post with a similar question, but no answer. I also couldn't find the answer in any documentation, in a search of DejaNews, or on a web page. If I do solve the problem, I'll add it to my detailed mini HOW-TO install on a Cube (not very far along at the moment: http://neath.org/Debian.html) (I've used debian for about 3 years as my exclusive OS, but only on x86 boxes; I stopped using Macs after System 7.) -- Ian Neath, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
