Re: How do I use those PowerMac images-1.44?
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:21:03PM -0500, Garry Roseman wrote:
> At 21:33 -0400 9/6/00, John R. MacPhail wrote:
> >Have you tried BootX? Try pointing BootX at ramdisk.image.gz (as a
> >RAM disk image, no decompression needed). If that runs, then you are
> >rolling.
>
> That will work, as long as I have a MacOS partition (which I do).
> Actually I have a whole darned Linuxppc2000 installation on the
> computer. Now I'm trying to learn about and compare Debian. I like
> the Debian thinking. My question was partly theoretical; I'd like to
> know how I could install the Debian system on a hypothetical client's
> PowerMac computer using only a floppy drive. I already know that I
> can do such an install from the Linuxppc2000 CD-ROM. Installing the
> Debian distrib onto a PowerMac from floppy only is impossible because
> I find no tool for making a floppy on MacOS from the Debian binary
> floppy image.
As said (many times today actually) on this list, use Disk Copy. You
have to exercise some woogy magic on file types and creators first,
though.
>
> So far the right way to install onto a PowerMac (e.g. 7600 or
> PowerCenter etc.) appears to be to allocate a partition to MacOS, put
> bootx on it and the ramdisk compressed image, and boot into the
> Debian installer. I haven't done that yet and my next task is to
> discover what tools are available in that ramdisk kernel for
> completing the installation.
Dan
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