Thanks for the tips, I gave up my gung-ho attempt to install deb w/out using MacOS when i borrowed an OS9 cd from a friend and got the whole bootX thing going smoothly. Now my only snitch is getting X configged right as it crashes after complaining about my mouse pointer. I tried using plain old xconfig but it doesn't its seems like it doesn't have enuf info for Mac hardware ...is there a way for me to manually set the pointer or run the debian script for xconfigging again?
About the whole booting debian issue form the floppies I seem to recall a reference on some NetBSD ppc help page that OF2.4 beiges cannot boot from floppies? i guess that's true. Best Simon -- Simon E. Mushi Farinon Box 8594 Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042-1784 (610) 330-4878 -------------------------------------------