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Re: Problems in disks-powerpc/current/powermac/



Martin Keegan <mk270@cam.ac.uk> writes:

> Hi - I was told on #debian to contact you re the problems I'm having
> getting installation materials for Debian on PowerPC. In the directory
> disks-powerpc/current/powermac, there is no install.txt (zero length
> file), and there's been a substantive change since the previous
> directory's (current is a symlink) copy of install.txt, namely the
> inclusion of what appears to be a rescue disk image. 

Documentation isn't yet building for potato boot-floppies.  You'll
just have to use slink documentation for now
(http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/) for some other architecture.

> The other problem is that what I presume to be the rescue disk (called
> something like install-floppy-hfs.img) doesn't work. I assume I am
> supposed to do boot fd:linux from the firmware; doing this gives me a
> "client program formatstate not valid" error.

Not sure about this.  Hartmut?

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