On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 11:58:41PM +0200, Francois Taiani wrote: > Hi Simon, > > a colleage of mine installed Debian woody recently on a G3 beige, but > could not get it boot either from the OF nor cdrom/floppy. The only > solution was to use BootX (shipped with debian) from MacOS 9. (A fairly > acceptable solution, as the switch from MacOS9 can be made automatic at > boot time.)
You can make quik work, but you have to download a patched version of one of the components. Read this thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/debian-powerpc-200303/msg00249.html and you shall be enlightened. Good luck! I've wrangled with beige G3s on several occasions. yours, Forrest L Norvell -- . . . the self-reflecting image of a narcotized mind . . . ozymandias G desiderata [EMAIL PROTECTED] desperate, deathless (415)823-6356 http://www.pushby.com/forrest/ ::AOAIOXXYSZ::
