On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:39:37PM +0200, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > > I suspect that booting off a Zip disk is more like booting off a floppy than > booting off a CD, which means that this probably is a debian-boot issue; > forwarding it there. using the same method as the bootable CDROMs will make a bootable zip disk, however it must be done from GNU/Linux and the zip disk must never be mounted in MacOS or else MacOS will render it unbootable. one can always boot the bootloader (yaboot) manually as described many times in the debian-powerpc archives. > Regards, > Anne Bezemer > > On Thu, 24 May 2001, Joe Krahn wrote: > > > Your CD-image page promotes installing via > > a floppy instead of burning CDs. (OF course, > > buying CD's is the best way...) > > > > I'm working with a PPC G4 that comes with no floppy > > drive, just ZIP. Anyone working on make ZIP > > boot images for Debian installs? I see that > > press-and-hold "z" means boot from ZIP on Macs. > > > > I went ahead with a CD install, but ZIP boot/rescue > > disks could work relly well. > > > > Thanks, good work, etc... > > Joe Krahn > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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