Ron, You don't need to mess with floppies. BootX, which you are already using, works just fine -- and it handles kernels and ramdisk images that are too big for a floppy. Once you get into the debian installer, you will discover that it insists on trying to install the "yaboot" bootloader, which fails on OldWorld machines. This is supposed to be fixed soon. I'm waiting with baited breath for the announcement!
Rick Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 06:39:29PM -0500, Ron Murray wrote: > > I've been having lots of problems getting woody installed on a Power > > Mac G3 minitower (300MHz processor, 128M RAM). Being an oldworld box, I > > can't boot it from CD. I tried installing from floppies, but that tended > > to mostly crash just after checking disk partitions on initial kernel > > load. I eventually downloaded the boot files and saved them on one of > > the two hard drives in an HFS partition, and managed to get the > > installer running using BootX. > > You may also want to give the debian-installer on oldworld pmac a try. > It needs testing and miboot is still problematic from a legal point of > view, but Jeremie Koenig built floppy sets based on the beta3 of the > debian installer, which should mostly allow you to install debian/sarge > on old world. I don't remember the URL out of hand though, and it is not > (yet) available from the official debian-installer web pages. > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
