Re: It works! (Was Re: Problem installing debian on G3 beige)
You're right! It is not clear from the docs:
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/images-1.44/boot-floppy-hfs.img
maybe it should be added to the list of thing to get (ie to the main
page http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac)
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 02:04:49PM -0500, Michael R. Himes wrote:
> Manea Mirko wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > thanks to the help of Ethan I succeeded in creating a boot floppy.
> >
> > The steps are the following:
> >
> > 1. get boot-floppy-hfs.img and dd it to a floppy;
> > 2. test if you can boot (it will prompt for a ramdisk). I had to use an
> > old boot-floppy-hfs.img (with kernel 2.2.17) because latest (with
> > 2.2.18pre21, I think) locks the keyboard;
> > 3. get boot-floppies sources (from
> > http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/boot-floppies.html) and untar it;
> > 4. cd to boot-floppies-2.2.17/powerpc-specials/miBoot;
> > 5. with a hex editor (like khexedit or beav) edit System.bin;
> > 6. near the end (~00012d00) you'll find:
> > root=0200 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 adb_buttons=100,111
> > video=atyfb:vmode:14,cmode:16,mclk:63
> > where root=XXYY, ie XX major and YY minor number of the device to mount
> > as root (/dev/sda2 -> root=0802, /dev/sda3 -> root=0803, look in /dev/);
> > 7. set load_ramdisk=0 and prompt_ramdisk=0;
> > 8. insert boot-floppy-hfs.img and do a hmount /dev/fd0;
> > 9. hcopy System.bin :
> > 10. humount;
> >
> > Now you've got a boot floppy which mounts your root filesytem :)
> > For me it works!
> >
> > I've just finished installing the base system, but when the installer
> > asked for type of package selection (simple or advanced) I selected simple
> > and then it did a reboot (clean shutdown). Maybe there is some problems
> > in the installer... but now debian boots and I'm going to use dselect
> > and apt..
> >
>
> Is there a place where a idiot can download a working copy of the
> boot-floppy-hfs.img?
>
> thanks,
> -mike
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Best Regards,
Mirko Manea <mami@mami.net>
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