Re: g3 beige won't boot off of boot floppy

2006-01-24 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 07:12:36PM -0500, Chris Fisichella wrote: > > On Monday, January 23, 2006, at 06:58 AM, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > >This is also more complicated than necessary. Why not just mount the > >real MacOS partition in the first place and overwrite the > >debian-installer kernel

Re: g3 beige won't boot off of boot floppy

2006-01-23 Thread Chris Fisichella
On Monday, January 23, 2006, at 06:58 AM, Hans Ekbrand wrote: This is also more complicated than necessary. Why not just mount the real MacOS partition in the first place and overwrite the debian-installer kernel and initrd with the ones in /boot? You mean to perform the Debian installat

Re: g3 beige won't boot off of boot floppy

2006-01-23 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 06:20:28AM -0500, Chris Fisichella wrote: > > On Monday, January 23, 2006, at 03:19 AM, Peter Teunissen wrote: > > > > >On 23-jan-2006, at 0:01, Ben Wehrspann wrote: > > > >>Hello all- > >> > >>Recently I aquired a g3 (beige) power mac it has Open Firmware 2.4 I > >>used

Re: g3 beige won't boot off of boot floppy

2006-01-23 Thread Chris Fisichella
On Monday, January 23, 2006, at 03:19 AM, Peter Teunissen wrote: On 23-jan-2006, at 0:01, Ben Wehrspann wrote: Hello all- Recently I aquired a g3 (beige) power mac it has Open Firmware 2.4 I used system disk to patch the OF though I must admit I don't know if it actually did anything wh

Re: g3 beige won't boot off of boot floppy

2006-01-23 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 23-jan-2006, at 0:01, Ben Wehrspann wrote: Hello all- Recently I aquired a g3 (beige) power mac it has Open Firmware 2.4 I used system disk to patch the OF though I must admit I don't know if it actually did anything when I hit the save button. ie it didnt give me any indication of p

g3 beige won't boot off of boot floppy

2006-01-22 Thread Ben Wehrspann
Hello all- Recently I aquired a g3 (beige) power mac it has Open Firmware 2.4 I used system disk to patch the OF though I must admit I don't know if it actually did anything when I hit the save button. ie it didnt give me any indication of progress etc. From my reading the only way to boot