On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 09:49:17PM +0200, silver wrote: > Hi , > i have woody installed on my 8500...started with potatoe... > > i just booted up with the boots floppies. > for booting debian later you have to use bootx from a hfs partition > then.
Thanks a lot for your answer :-) but now, I have one more question... How do I boot from those floppies and how can I make them? I'm a PC user, and I started to play with macs recently :) Greets :-) > > should be documented in the install docs. > > greets > > On Freitag, Juli 19, 2002, at 10:43 Uhr, Carlos de la Cruz wrote: > > >Hi! I have a problem installing Debian in an "Old World Mac" > >Please, could you help me? :-) > > > >How do I get the openfirmware console in my PowerPC 8500? I tried the > >keys > >sequence alt-command-blah and It doesn't works. I only get a black > >screen. > > > >When I executed "Apple system disk" it told me "OpenFirmware" ->input: > >ttya > > output: ttya > >Do I need a serial terminal for operating openfirmware? > > > >:) Sorry for my ugly English. I will try to find some time this summer > >to ''refine'' it x-DD > > > > > >-- > > > > Carlos de la Cruz - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a > >lot > > of different places, just write a Unix operating system. > > > > (By Linus Torvalds) > > > > > > > >-- > >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- Carlos de la Cruz - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system. (By Linus Torvalds) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]