Re: Newest powerpc install disks not booting

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 09:06:30AM -0200, Lucas Rossi wrote:
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> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/floppy

Well, since miboot is not free (yet), it was not included in the sarge
official builds. Your best guess is to rebuild the debian-installer package of
sarge yourself, after having installed the miboot package (from
http://people.debian.org/~luther/miboot if i remember well), which would yield
you not-broken miboot floppies for installation on your old world system.

On a sarge powerpc system :

  1) lftp http://people.debian.org/~luther/miboot
  2) mget *.deb
  3) dpkg -i *.deb
  4) apt-get source debian-installer
  5) cd debian-installer-<version>
  6) apt-get build-dep debian-installer
  7) dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc

Not sure if this will do it, but should be a good start.

Friendly,

Sven Luther