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Re: Debian 3 disk 1 bootable?



At least i tried to download woody...with jigdo...without success. There are 
107 missing files, whichever mirror i use....

So i will download the big iso file...and if it does not work, then i will try 
potatoe...

jigdo seems not to be working fine....

Gaetan

Le Mercredi 07 Janvier 2004 16:07, Grigory Entin a écrit :
> Hello Gaetan,
>
> On Wed Jan 07 2004 at 13:39, Gaétan Quentin <qg_tech@noos.fr> wrote:
> > I have an imac (powerpc 750, floppyless) , and have installed
> > Mandrake cooker (9.1 in fact..): it works fine. Now i want to try
> > Debian. I have downloaded, with jigdo, the first "testing" powerpc
> > iso yesterday: debian-31-powerpc-binary-1.iso. It does not boot on
> > the imac, unlike Mandrake disks... I have looked inside the iso and
> > didn't found vmlinuz image or something like that. In the doc, they
> > said that newworld powerpc - like my imac, which has not floppy,
> > should boot on cd. Yaboot is still installed since Mandrake did it,
> > and when i push the "c" key, the imac it stopping on "booting
> > cdrom".
>
> I'd suggest to start with the stable branch (potato), at least if you
> have relatively old iMac - everything works (including CD boot)
> without a problem for my iMac 350 Summer 2000 (I'm not using testing
> at all, except very few packages such as MOL/kernel-image).
>
> Regards,
> Grigory



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