I have a couple of old beige G3's. They will boot from an
appropriately setup "miboot" floppy, which is not part of the
"normal" debian distribution, due to freeness problems with miboot
(which may have been fixed recently?). Such miboot floppies are
available but I don't have a suitable URL. Sven used to provide
them, but I think somebody else has taken that job over recently.
The way I usually boot a beige G3 into debian Linux is with MacOS-9
(though I'm told MacOS-8.5 works just as well and takes up less disk
space if you are tight on that commodity) and the BootX extension.
That works pretty reliably.
Rick
On Jun 26, 2006, at 3:32 AM, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 15:41:36 -0700, Jason Self wrote:
On 6/24/06, Michael Fuckner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The Machine seems to be only netbootable
The beige G3 is also able to boot from CD. Insert CD and hold down
"C"
on the keyboard while the machine powers up, searches for startup
devices, finds the CD and then begins to boot it. You can then
release
the "C" key. If you have a working CD drive, that might be simpler?
Check out http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
I'm sorry, but you are both wrong. Such machines are neither
netbootable
nor CD-bootable, except for specially mastered non-free CDs which
Debian
does not provide. You MUST use a floppy, unless you pull the HD and
image
it on another machine.
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