On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 09:12:10PM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote: > On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Ian Eure wrote: > > > hi there. i recently acquired a blue & white powermac g3 that i'd like > > to run debian on. > > It's pretty easy. Just use yaboot. It's included in debian potato. 'quik', > however, won't work, and that's what it tries to install by default. not if you use woody boot-floppies, which is what i now recommend on powerpc, potato boot-floppies just suck to badly. and since nobody seems to want to use potato anyway it makes all the more sense to just use woody's boot-floppies. > You'll just have to boot from CD the first time, and pass the 'root=' > parameter to the kernel from the CD, and then run 'mkofboot' once it's > started. Make sure you've setup an 800k partition of type > 'Apple_Bootstrap' for yaboot to install itself into. with woody boot-floppies just follow the directions (create the bootstrap partition using the `b' command in mac-fdisk), then when the `Make System Bootable' step comes up run it, everything will Just Work. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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