Re: Installing Debian(Woody) on a 7200, again
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:35:36AM -0500, Lorenzo Thurman wrote:
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> I tried the boot floppy 5 times with disks made from three differnet computers and it still will not work. The same thing happens everytime, the boot process starts, but after miboot kicks in, the screen goes black and loses sync, then nothing. Anyone have any ideas? I thought Debian was supposed to have a better installer, so far this has been a waste of time. I've used Mandrake and LinuxPPC in the past and they worked w/o too much trouble on this computer, so I can't understand why Debian has to be so difficult.
Booting from floppies is usually successful on an OldWorld
(other than the floppy reliability issue). Others have succeeded
with 7200. IIRC, you mentioned a non-standard video card, perhaps
that is the problem. Can you remove the card and use the onboard
video to install?
Another possibility might be to use BootX from MacOS as covered
in the manual; MacOS would probably set up the video card
correctly before BootX boots the installer.
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