PowerMac 4400/200 32M RAM

Hi, We should like to run debian (or any other free UNIX) on an old mac called on the front cover a Power Macintosh 4400/200. We dd'd the woody hfs floppy image to a floppy and were apparently able to boot, but the monitor was out of sync so we just saw a fuzzy penguin and grey stuff which may o

Re: PowerMac 4400/200 32M RAM

Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 07:13:15PM +0000, John Fremlin wrote: >> We should like to run debian (or any other free UNIX) on an old mac >> called on the front cover a Power Macintosh 4400/200. [...] >> How do we stop the mo

Re: PowerMac 4400/200 32M RAM

Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 07:13:15PM +0000, John Fremlin wrote: [...] >> How do we stop the monitor going out of sync? Is there a bootloader >> command line or something anywhere? In fact this was "fixed" by changing the mo

Re: help can't use the boot-floppies

jan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have two 8500/180 PowerPC machine ;) One machine has netbsd on it > which was very easy to install. Now I want debian on the other > one. I downloaded the iso-image and tried out to make the floppy > boot images with dd (on another linux machine) because the CD

Re: PowerMac 4400 stuck on boot floppy

"Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:59:20AM -0600, Mack Allison wrote: [...] > Perhaps you have a bad floppy disk... anyway, to restore booting to MacOS, > try Cmd-Opt-PR to clear the parameter RAM. You have to hold it until you > hear the second chime. > > Y