Re: Booting from CD on PowerMacintosh 7600/132
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 02:09:49PM +0200, Lars Nood?n wrote:
> 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.
To use it, you drag the image to the app. You're probably right, Applescript
must have been turned off.
> 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?
It's there in the mac-fdisk manual. I'll add something in the install manual:
You have to name the partition 'swap' on powerpc. The type must be normal
Unix.
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