On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:48:37AM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote: > Note: If you want to use woody boot-floppies as Ethan suggests, you can > get them at your local mirror in /debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc . > There's no CD image, so instead you'll have use MacOS and Open Firmware to > set up yaboot and the ramdisk image. Once you boot the woody install > disks, I think you can use your potato CD as the source medium (Ethan, > will this work?).
no, we removed all support for installing anything but woody from boot-floppies. because it never worked in the first place. > See "6.3 Booting from a Hard Disk" in this document: > http://www.debian.org/releases/2.2/powerpc/ch-rescue-boot.en.html > > Before you try this, it's probably worth trying a few simple things to fix > your mostly-complete potato install: if you install woody all of this is unecessary, simply don't ignore the demands that you create an 800K Apple_Bootstrap partition and run the `Make System Bootable' step at the end of the installation process. you can't do that with potato. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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