Bug#315308: installing Power Macintosh G3 (Beige minitower) from floppy
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 03:31:55PM -0400, Jacob Fugal wrote:
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> Method: I tried installing a Power Macintosh G3 (Beige minitower) from a
> floppy. I tried copying the image boot.img from my current Debian box using
> the command "dd ..." as specified on to four different floppies. I tried
> .../floppy and .../floppy-2.4 and put the floppy in the system and as soon
> as it booted up, it spit the disk out of the system.
> The screen showed a floppy disk with an x in it. Reinserting did nothing.
That is the behaviour of floppies without valid boot information.
> Machine: Power Macintosh G3 (Beige minitower) Processor:
> Memory: ?
> Root Device: ?
> Root Size/partition table: ?
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> Comments/Problems:
> Boot.img seems not to work as the manual states the system will boot of
> the floppy if inserted before powerup and will spit it out if it doesn't
> recognize it as a boot disk.
Yes, indeed.
> I cleaned the floppy disk out good with compressed air, and used rubbing
> alcohol on a q-tip on the heads and no improvement. It might be a bad
> floppy drive I guess, but I have no way to test it as I have only one
> macintosh floppy drive.
Can you write and read under Mac OS on that floppy drive?
> Is there any way to take the hard drive out of the system, install some
> files somewhere else and then try booting Debian? I also admit I have no
> SCSI card, and no hard drive with any MAC OS on it to setup files like
> this on it.
Is a CD ROM an option for you?
Cheers
Geert Stappers
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