I installed debian on my 8500/180 by burning the debian cds. I am sure if this really helps, but I guess you could try booting off the cds.
- David Zhou [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim: Lightstatic On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, jan wrote: > dear list, > > I have two 8500/180 PowerPC machine ;) > One machine has netbsd on it which was very easy to install. > Now I want debian on the other one. I downloaded the iso-image and tried > out to make the floppy boot images with dd (on another linux machine) > because the CD is not a bootable one. > I took rescue.bin / root.bin / boot.bin , put the floppydisk in the > drive and then : > > boot unrecognized client program format or just : can't boot from device > > I also tried to netboot the whole thing but it seems that the bf: file > is still the wrong one... > (tftp, bootp stuff is working correctly) > > I don't know what I am doing wrong... > > (Firmware is 1.0.5) > > > > thanks for any hints you have > > > Jan > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
