On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:22:43AM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote: > On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 10:48, Bertram Bourdrez wrote: > > I have some problems booting my beige G3. It currently runs MacOS 9, which > > fails to recognise the RealTek 8139 I've put into it (I can't use the > > onboard NIC as my hub only understands 100 Mbit). So I tried booting off a > > floppy, and failed miserably. Sometimes the boot process just ignores the > > floppy, at other times it ejects it. Using OpenFirmware to boot the floppy > > results in similar failures. Anyone any idea how to get a network-less G3 > > running? > > IIRC you wont be able to boot from floppy, or CD. This is the price we > Beige G3 users pay for having old hardware :/ As another respondant > mentioned, you will need to use BootX. You install this off the Debian > CD into MacOS then use it to boot off the CD and you can begin your > Debian installation. > > Unless you want to do some messy hacking, I recommend keeping MacOS, > preferrably on a seperate disk or on a partition >= 100M and using > BootX to load Debian on boot.
Ah, thanks. I still have a few questions remaining... will I need to download the entire Debian CD or can I get away with getting some files into MacOS through sneakernet? Second, my first intent was to dual-boot OS X with Debian, is this somehow feasible or do I have to keep OS 9 around? I'm still somewhat unclear on the boot-through-BootX thing. Ideally I'd like to eliminate the need for OS 9 entirely. Bertram -- Bertram Bourdrez (bertram at debian dot mbit dot nl) -- ICQ# 32236129
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