"Wicher W.O. Deddens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to install Debian on a PPC 8500/150, 96 Mb, 2 Gb HD for > Webserving and Mailserving purposes. I downloaded CD1 for PowerPC, wrote > it to a bootable disk
What do you mean you wrote the CD to a bootable disk? Do you mean a hard drive, or a Zip drive, or something else? > (which is bootable on a G4 with Yaboot, but not on the 8500), made a > boot floppy and a root.bin floppy, made partitions according the > example in the manual: a 500 mb other system (MacOS 8.1, but not > installed yet), a 32 Mb Swap and the rest as a Linux partition. > After booting the system on the floppies I get the Installation Main > Menu (text oriented), but CD1 doesn't mount and I don't get any > further. Hmmm. What was the error message? Did the kernel even detect your CDROM drive (you probably wouldn't have been offered the choice to use a CD if it didn't)? Did it say the CD was invalid? Something else?
