Hi, This is my first post on this list because I've never used a Mac before until yesterday when a buddy of mine gave me one of his old Mac's...so I decided to put Linux on it. I've been using Sun's for about 10 years and Linux on PC's for a few years now, so I thought putting debian on a beige G3 someone gave me would be pretty straight foreward. Well, I goofed (doh!). Here's my problem:
I am trying to install debian woody through http as the only operating system on a beige Mac G3 desktop that I need to write some apps for. I made the HFS boot floppy and the root floppy on my Linux box and then booted with the HFS boot floopy in the Mac box. Everything went painless, however when I got to the "create your partitions", I unwittingly reinitialized the partition table thinking I was initializing my newly created partitions. At the time, I didn't think much of it, created a /boot, / and swap partitions again and the rest of the installation continued smoothly. When the installation asked me to reboot the machine however, as soon as the machine reboot I got this error on the screen: "can't OPEN: /pci/mac-io/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0". I think I am getting this error because when the partition map was reinitialized, it erased two partitions that said something like "ATA_100" or something. I tried placing my HFS boot floppy in again, but I get the same error (is there something special I have to do to get it to boot from the floppy again?). Do I have to recreate the ATA_100 partition(s)? I appreciate all your help, working on this Mac has been a humbling, bumbling experience for sure. Thanks, Frank __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com
