use bootx after the machine has been booted into the macos- there is plenty of documentation available on how to do this.
d on 03.3.11 11:13 PM, Nori Heikkinen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > a friend and i are trying to install debian on his old PowerBook G3 > "Wall Street". having just stuck a CD into many x86s, i blithely > assumed this would be similar. But not only is his CD drive kind of > flaky, the OldWorld macs won't boot off an ISO image: > > OldWorld Powermacs will not boot a Debian CD, because OldWorld > computers relied on a MacOSROM CD boot driver to be present on the > CD, and a free-software version of this driver is not available. All > OldWorld systems have floppy drives, so use the floppy drive to > launch the installer, and then point the installer to the CD for the > needed files. [1] > > contrary to the assertion above, his OldWorld system does *not* have a > floppy. So, we've been trying to do it from Open Firmware, as > described in the next paragraph of that same page: > > If your system doesn't boot directly from CD-ROM, you can still use > the CD-ROM to install the system. On NewWorlds, you can also use an > OpenFirmware command to boot from the CD-ROM manually. Follow the > instructions in Booting NewWorld Macs from OpenFirmware, Section > 5.4.3 for booting from the hard disk, except use the path to yaboot > on the CD at the OF prompt, such as > > 0 > boot cd:,install\powermac\yaboot > > note that this is not a NewWorld. > > um .... we're lost here. we have no floppy, but we're not NewWorld, > so we can't boot off CD but we can't use OF either? > > has anyone gotten Debian up and running on a WallStreet PowerBook? > any pointers? > > thanks a lot! > > </nori> > > [1] > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install > -cd
