Hello list.
I'm trying to install Debian on an OldWorld 9600 'Kansas' PowerMac.
I should probably say: I've been trying to try to install...
I can't seem to get this machine to boot up from the Rescue floppy. So,
my first question is: *can* my model of machine boot from floppy at all?
Maybe I'm just wasting my time.
If it can, and I'm just doing something dim, I need some help.
This is what I've done so far:
#1. I made floppy discs of the 'rescue.bin' & 'root.bin' images with
DiskCopy in MacOS, and remembered to lock the image files in the Finder
first.
#2. I used System Disk to overide the default output device and boot device,
and then asked my machine to reboot. OpenFirmware's reply: "fd: Can't LOAD
from this device."
#3. Next, I tried setting the boot-device directly in OF (1.0.5). Same
result.
#4. I repeated #1 with fresh discs, still in MacOS, after redownloading the
disc images through Lynx *definitely* in binary mode. Same result.
#5. I made new floppy discs of the disc images in LinuxPPC on another
machine. Same freakin' result. "fd: can't LOAD from this device."
Any advice would be appreciated.
Follow-up question: does my OldWorld 9600 need a MacOS partition, or can
I just wipe the drive and make it Debian from stem to stern?
Thanks.
matthew frederick davis h.
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