Hello all, I'm new to the list and to Linux as well, please be patient if I ask foolish questions. I'm trying to install DebianPowerPC_wheezy on a PowerMac G4 OSX10.4. It has two hard drives, so I wiped the unused one (disk0) and created an HFS partition (disk0s2) into which I copied vmlinux, initrd.gz, yaboot and yaboot.conf from http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/hd-media/ I downloaded http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.3.0/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-7.3.0-powerpc-CD-1.iso to the root directory of my OSX hard-drive (disk1s10 I think). The md5 matches that on the website. I rebooted the Mac into the Open Firmware prompt booted from disk0 using 'boot hd:2,yaboot'. That works, although there is a warning about the filesystem being HFS rather than Apple_Bootstrap. I started the installer with 'install'. When I came to the 'scan hardware for ISO image' step, it could not find the ISO on disk1 (alias sdb) - I could see it was searching the top few directories of that volume but it didn't see the ISO. So I burnt the ISO to a CD-ROM, and tried again. At the same step it failed to see the ISO when scanning automatically. I went into the shell provided and checked that there was '/dev/cdrom' listed. The output of dmesg also listed the CD-drive. The troubleshooting tip from the manual of checking /proc/ide/cdrom or whatever for settings involving DMA was not possible - there is no such directory nor any file called 'settings' under /proc. When I manually entered '/dev/cdrom' into the ISO search tool, it eventually found the ISO: '[cdrom] /dev/cdrom (stable-7.3)' which suggests to me that it can read the device ok. But when I confirmed that was the ISO I want to use, it just went back to the 'ISO not found' page. a) What am I doing wrong please? In a previous attempt I got the installer to see an ISO in a different partition *on the same hard disk* (disk0) as the installer. But I aborted that install at the partitioning stage as I assumed that the ISO image would in fact be destroyed in the partitioning process, leaving the installation hanging. b) Was I right? Or can you install from an image on the same hd?
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