My first debian install was potato on my G4/450/AGP, and that went relatively smoothly, but unfortunately, that's my work box, and I need to be running MacOS 95% of the time on it, so I had to switch back after a few days of playing with it...However, I've got an old Power Computing Powerwave 132 that I've been trying to install debian on, without a whole lot of success. I knew about the OF output to serial port issue beforehand, and picked up a Griffin G4port serial port for my G4 so I could set up the Zterm terminal app to talk to my Powerwave and tell it to send the output to the video card and keyboard (since System Disk gave an error saying it didn't work with my machine). I followed all the steps in both Apple's Open Firmware Technote and NetBSD's MacPPC FAQ but have not been able to get the output to display in Zterm despite trying every combination of settings I could find, and even trying plugging into the printer serial port instead of the modem port (purely out of desperation), to no avail. The Powerwave stops booting in just the right place when I use the OF key combo, but nothing shows up in the terminal. I'm totally stumped and haven't been able to find any help anywhere else, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Brian McCain
