Re: It works! (Was Re: Problem installing debian on G3 beige)

2001-01-31 Thread Andrew Sharp
OK, now I have a system with no macos on it, and I need a boot floppy image that works. Anybody know where to get the old boot-floppy image or have one available somewhere on ftp ~:^) I tried a pointer found in an email earlier than this one, but that site has since been updated to the latest, an

Re: It works! (Was Re: Problem installing debian on G3 beige)

2001-01-16 Thread Manea Mirko
You're right! It is not clear from the docs: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/images-1.44/boot-floppy-hfs.img maybe it should be added to the list of thing to get (ie to the main page http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac) On Tue, Jan 16, 2001

Re: It works! (Was Re: Problem installing debian on G3 beige)

2001-01-16 Thread Michael R. Himes
Manea Mirko wrote: > > Hi! > > thanks to the help of Ethan I succeeded in creating a boot floppy. > > The steps are the following: > > 1. get boot-floppy-hfs.img and dd it to a floppy; > 2. test if you can boot (it will prompt for a ramdisk). I had to use an > old boot-floppy-hfs.img (with kern

Re: It works! (Was Re: Problem installing debian on G3 beige)

2001-01-07 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 10:19:30AM -0800, Mark Jaroski wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:30:22AM +0100, Manea Mirko wrote: Oops... sorry about getting your name wrong... I'm embarrased... -- -- mark at outlook dot net - -- Outlook

Re: It works! (Was Re: Problem installing debian on G3 beige)

2001-01-07 Thread Mark Jaroski
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:30:22AM +0100, Manea Mirko wrote: > Hi! > > thanks to the help of Ethan I succeeded in creating a boot floppy. > > The steps are the following: > > 1. get boot-floppy-hfs.img and dd it to a floppy; > 2. test if you can boot (it will prompt for a ramdisk). I had to use

It works! (Was Re: Problem installing debian on G3 beige)

2001-01-07 Thread Manea Mirko
Hi! thanks to the help of Ethan I succeeded in creating a boot floppy. The steps are the following: 1. get boot-floppy-hfs.img and dd it to a floppy; 2. test if you can boot (it will prompt for a ramdisk). I had to use an old boot-floppy-hfs.img (with kernel 2.2.17) because latest (with 2.2.18pr