Re: start_whit_debian

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 08:48:54PM +0200, marco amato wrote:
> It's impossible to install the linux whitout os 9?
> 
> There isn't a think like a image to  paste in the hd
> for dont use mac os?

You can use two ways which don't involve os 9 and bootx, i
suppose you are running an oldworld machine, if not, yaboot
cdrom booting should work just fine.

You can either use the miboot d-i floppies found at :

  http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/

  (or http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy-2.4/
  for using 2.4 kernels)

Both should work fine starting with tomorrows daily build, altough the
different driver and additional component floppy are a bit messed up right
now, and loading more than one floppy is still possible only with a kludge. We
will fix this next week though.

The other possibly involves accessing the Of directly through the serial
console, and booting the .coff kernel below, altough i have had reports of the
initrd being too big for some oldworld firmware implementations. 

  http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-coff.initrd

Friendly,

Sven Luther