Welcome to the powerpc boot floppy fiasco. The rescue floppy will only work on New World macs, and yours is an old world. The boot-floppy-hfs.img file is the image of a bootable floppy for the old world macs for install purposes, but it has a keyboard issue and doesn't work without some modifications, and then only if you have quick hands! See the list archives at http://lists.debian.org for more info on that. The best way to go is if you have MacOS on the machine, and use the `BootX' option, which is documented enough in the install docs for the powerpc port.
a Geert Stappers wrote: > > Hallo Kenney, > > The boot-floppies are indeed for all architectures. > But for this question, debian-powerpc is a better place to ask. > ( there CC-ed ) > > At 20:25 +0100 2/26/01, Kenney Mark wrote: > >All, > > > >I want to install Debian on a Mac, and can get my Power Macintosh 8500/120 > >to the Open Firmware boot prompt, but cannot find any documentation that > >tells me how to boot the "rescue floppy" from the boot prompt to start my > >Debian 2.2 installation. I'm guessing it's something like "boot fd:0"? > >Your help would be greatly appreciated... > > > >Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > Groet Geert Stappers > --------------------- > Hit the right key to continue > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
