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Re: Booting from CD on PowerMacintosh 7600/132

Thanks. It turns out that I need two disks, both boot-floppy-hfs.img and root.bin. 

I used dd on an i686 after trying other methods.
The MakeDebianFloppy script didn't seem to have instructions packed with it so I moved on after 10 minutes of experiments. Perhaps that machine (running OS 9) was missing AppleScript. Nor could I figure out diskcopy on the first try.
It would be a nice-but-not-essential extra to have the Debian install process remind you of how much RAM is available. It would, however, be really useful to have a little more detail about creating a swap partition. Partition types "swap", "SWAP", and 82 seem to be ignored. What is the proper thing to enter, if I use only the disks and no other tool? 

-Lars
På søndag, 30. juni 2002, kl. 21:13, skrev Chris Tillman:On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 07:44:45PM +0200, Lars Nood?n wrote: 
Any suggestion how do I get a PowerMacintosh 7600/132 to boot from CD?

Section 5.2 of the installation manual (woody) suggests holding
command,option,shift, and delete while starting up.  This doesn't seem to
work for me.


Oldworld powermacs will not boot from Debian CDs, because a free-software
version of the needed CD driver is not available. You should be able to
boot from a floppy, then install from the CD.

I added a note to this effect in the manual.

--
*------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------*
|      <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual>      |
|   debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net>   |
|            Chris Tillman        tillman@voicetrak.com          |
|                   May the Source be with you                   |
*----------------------------------------------------------------*


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