What a right royal pain in the butt for the last few months trying to get this running, success at last! Many thanks to all for recent advice and that buried away in the archives. For any other unfortunate soul who's just starting out with an beige g3 oldworld install, my experience follows:
Small OS9 partition. BootX with relevant files (ie root.img and vmlinux) 2nd large partiton, I allowed partion guider to set it up for me. At the partioner make a note of which partition macos uses. Something like #6 Ignore messages regards quik at end of d-i set-up, ctrl-alt-f2 to CLI This thread I found useful but incomplete, you need to chroot not cd to the directory: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/10/msg00628.html I found that there was no module available straight from the installer to mount the os9 partition. From the above post and others I then # chroot target Then # mount -t hfs /dev/sda6 mnt With the mac partition mounted, copy the files as per http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/08/msg00291.html Exit the CLI, switch to installer (ctrl-alt-f1) and finish without bootloader. Once in OS9 copy use the initrd.img-2.6.8-powerpc as your RAM disk and select the vmlinux-2.6.8-powerpc. No arguments. Then, BOOT IN LINUX........ Installation report to follow ____________other links I found useful_____________ http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/09/msg01709.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/09/msg01748.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/11/msg00165.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/10/msg02187.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/10/msg00138.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/08/msg00671.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
