On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:29:02PM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > Hello debian-powerpc! > > I am trying to help a friend to install debian on a Mac 6400. I have only previous experience with the i386 arch. I read in the archives about the problems with boot-floppies for potato, and downloaded the boot-floppy-hfs.img. Now, I was about to test the newly made boot-floppy on my colleagues computer in our office (No, it was not a nice thing to do!), she has an 6100. The floppy boots alright, with a nice pengiun in the middle, but when it is finished loading the kernel and waits for the root.bin (I assume), I don't know how to get it to eject the first disk so I can insert the root.bin disk. After some 10-15 sec. the screen becomes distorted, and I am lost. If I turn the machine off, I know that same proceudure is waiting for me whenever I turn it on again. first: linux does NOT run on 6100, 7100, or 8100s, these are NuBUS machines not supported by monolithic linux. there is a port going on and apparently making progress, but debian does not support that right now. this is why it crashed horribly, i am surprised it even got that far. > Please, tell me how to (by means of what keyboard combinations, or special buttons or whatever) get that floppy out of my colleagues' computer before she needs it again! old Macintosh trick: boot while holding down the mouse button. that is supposed to eject the floppy rather then boot from it. if that doesn't work straighten out clippy and jam him into that little pin hole next to the floppy drive while the machine is off. that will force the floppy to eject manually. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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