Can't boot 3.0 (woody) on a PowerMac 6500
It installed just fine once I figured out which files to make into
floppy images. At the end of the first phase of the install, there are 3
options for booting: Quik, make floppies, use existing boot. I had
problems with all three.
1) When I tried to "Make Drive Bootable", I got an error message that
Quik couldn't install because it couldn't get the name of the root drive
from OpenFirmware. I tried this with 2 different partition schemes. One
with a Mac OS bootable partition and one without.
2) "Make Floppies" just said that this feature isn't available for
PowerPC at this time.
3) Having installed SUSE on the machine, BootX was still installed. I
used it to boot the installed Debian. It worked fine until it got to the
first screen that needed input. There it seemed to freeze. Or, at least,
it wouldn't take any keyboard input. I tried it twice. BootX and Debian
not compatible?
If anyone can suggest how to get this machine to work, I'd really
appreciate it. I've done what I know and what I can figure out from the
installation manual and the list archives.
Also, is there a way to contribute suggestions for the installation
manual? Post them here?
Jim Hart, Project Manager
Academic Technology Services
Library and Information Services
Bates College
Lewiston, Maine, USA
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