My experience very much resembles the one expressed by Wouter Hanegraaff in: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/10/msg00475.html My box is ide-based, however. Booting was made using floppies from: http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer/daily-powerpc-built/2004-10-24/powerpc/floppy-2.4/ First I tried with the 2.6 series but met with the same problems as already described by Sven Luther in http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/10/msg00011.html The cdrom was never detected, so I used the netdriver floppy and installed from the network instead. The partioning guide suggested only one partion and ext3 fs. As Wouter Hanegraaff already reported, quick refused to install since the partition was not ext2. I executed a shell, unmounted /target, mounted /target as ext2, exit the shell. Then quick could be installed (it warned me about untested code though). After finishing the installation and rebooting, nothing happaned. The monitor warned "Check the signal cable". Since the boot floppy worked alright, I would like to use it to boot the final system, instead of booting from hard disk. Is that supported? If not, any hints on how to do it? kind regards, -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> Never trust a message that appears to come from me but is not signed with GPG! It is most likely SPAM or a VIRUS sent by someone who has my adress and got infected. My public key, ID 7050614E, is available from the HKP key servers and here: http://sociologi.cjb.net/~hans/key.txt
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