Re: Booting install system

[Kevin van Haaren <kevinv@hockey.net>]

I'm encountering the same issue on my PowerMac 7200.  I tried the 
boot-floppy-hfs.img from 7/20 & 7/17.  The 7/17 one would just spit 
back out.  The 7/20 one gave me the computer+penguin icon for awhile 
and then goes to a blank screen.

I made the floppies using DiskCopy 6.3.3

I also ran into the same BootX issue attempting to boot from HD using 
BootX extension.  I tried putting the ramdisk.image.gz file & linux 
kernel from the boot disks directory into several locations and 
always gett the Unable to find suitable kernel error.

Also, are the boot disks (and cd) mirrored anywhere? I feel 
incredibly guilty getting them from ftp.debian.org but the sid 
directory doesn't seem to be mirrored to ftp.us.debian.org.

This is a PowerMac 7200, System 7.5.3 update 2, 24mb of memory, 500mb 
harddrive, factory cd-rom (forget who made it).

Thanks - Kevin


At 12:37 PM -0700 7/23/2000, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 12:16:02PM -0700, Cameron wrote:
>  > Ok, I have a starmax 4000/200 (200 mhz 604e).
>  >
>  > I wanna put debian on this thing. Now, making a boot floppy (with my intel
>  > debian box) won't work. It just spits the floppy out during boot up.
>  > Any ideas on how to get around that?
>
> What're you making it from?  You should be using the
> boot-floppy-hfs.img.  Root/Rescue are not bootable on Macs.  If the HFS
> image is not booting on a Starmax, I need to find out why not.
>
>  > Any ideas on what to try with bootx? Any ideas on how to boot up the
>  > install system period (besides a bootable cd, I don't feel like
>  > downloading a cd image over a 56k)?
>
> The CD wouldn't boot on your machine anyway.  It's only for newer ones.
>
>
> Dan
>
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