jan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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
You want to boot from the hfs-floppy-image (whatever that was called) one instead, and then put in the root.bin disk which contains the rootfs. We had no success with this on a 4400/200 machine FWIW - it got IO errors loading root.bin from every single floppy we tried. We ended up installing BootX from a YellowDog install CD on the MacOS partition and using it to boot the debian kernel and ramdisk [...] -- http://john.fremlin.de
