Re: Problems with install on Power Mac G3 minitower
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 06:39:29PM -0500, Ron Murray wrote:
> I've been having lots of problems getting woody installed on a Power
> Mac G3 minitower (300MHz processor, 128M RAM). Being an oldworld box, I
> can't boot it from CD. I tried installing from floppies, but that tended
> to mostly crash just after checking disk partitions on initial kernel
> load. I eventually downloaded the boot files and saved them on one of
> the two hard drives in an HFS partition, and managed to get the
> installer running using BootX.
You may also want to give the debian-installer on oldworld pmac a try.
It needs testing and miboot is still problematic from a legal point of
view, but Jeremie Koenig built floppy sets based on the beta3 of the
debian installer, which should mostly allow you to install debian/sarge
on old world. I don't remember the URL out of hand though, and it is not
(yet) available from the official debian-installer web pages.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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