Hello,
as some of you may not remember, I posted a few times last year trying to
get the miboot floppies available at
people.debian.org/~wouterd-i/powerpc-miboot/.. to work. For those of you who
don't know, the floppies are used for installing debian on 'old world'
powerpc. The floppies are e
Package:kernel-image-2.6.17-2-powerpc-miboot-di
Version:1.22
Hi,
tried booting the powerpc debian installer floppy disk for etch/sid but it
just got spat out. I used:
dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024; sync
to put the image on disk and booted with the option key pressed, but didn't
get any de
Hi,
well the good news is that somebody shrank the net-drivers.img, and it
builds properly too, see:
people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc-miboot/2006-10-30/build_powerpc_floppy_net-drivers.log
Don't know who did it or how, but thank you. Unfortunately the modules in
the floppy are for linux-
Hi,
well to be honest that was a typo, I actually have no idea about bootloaders
and meant to say, number 3, that I would like to help whoever is working on
the boot floppies to fix the problem. I never was good at multiple choice.
Anyways, I managed to mount the floppies after having considerab
Hi,
I thought network boot doesn't work for old world macs. At least that's what
the debian instruction manual says. If it does work, maybe you can explain
the process and I can maybe do a little rewrite for the manual. As for the
floppies, really all I can offer is to test the stuff out. so I
Hi,
I have a powerpc 6500/275 and am trying to install debian etch with the
floppy images from ~wouter, or the beta3 from debian for that matter.
Everything works fine until I insert the net-install.img. Through mail
contact with piotras, after "erroneously" posting on the
debootloaders-miboot lis
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