At 13:45 +0100 2/27/01, Marco d'Itri wrote: >On Feb 27, Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >There are two floppy images in the powerpc dist that might be > >mentioned. One is called rescue.bin, the other boot-floppy-hfs.img, > >and hence a newbie might easily think that the former is the rescue > >floppy mentioned often in the docs, but is not bootable on old world > >macs, it is an ext2 file system, actually. Maybe not bootable on > >any macs since people keep saying that newworld macs don't have > >floppy. Maybe they work on some other powerpc platforms, I don't > >know. >It does not work on IBM machines, and I can't see why it should work on >any other platform, since no open firmware version I know about >understands ext2. > >The only way to install debian on a CHRP machine is to extract the >kernel from the ext2 floppy and copy it on a raw or FAT-formatted disk. >And then you discover the kernel has no serial console support, so you >have to find a PCI video card and put it in the machine. After doing >that you can finally boot the system, at least if the kernel is not too >old for your machine and dies with some weird error message. >
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