Re: problems installing debian on Performa 6400

2005-12-17 Thread Tara Athan
I have been using BootX 1.1.3 - this may be (part of ) the difficulty. I tried downloading all versions of BootX, including 1.2.2, burned onto a CD, fed into my Mac and dragged each onto the StuffIt Expander Icon. The only one that expands is 1.1.3 Further information: > the installation instru

Re: problems installing debian on Performa 6400

2005-12-17 Thread Tara Athan
Clive- thanks for your response, However, Performa 6400 is PCI, not NuBus. Tara Clive Menzies wrote: On (16/12/05 23:11), Tara Athan wrote: I have been attempting to follow the instructions in http://www.us.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ to install debian on my Performa

problems installing debian on Performa 6400

2005-12-16 Thread Tara Athan
I have been attempting to follow the instructions in http://www.us.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ to install debian on my Performa 6400/180. I have done the following: 1. created 2 partitions on my hard disk, one with the Mac OS installed, the other blank 2. installed bootx 3. downloaded C