Re: Problem installing on PowerMac 8600
Hi,
I managed to install woody on a 8600 using BootX on MacOS 8. I'm not
using it anymore, because I have some weird hardware problem that
gives me segfault in many different programs, but after a lot of work
I had X running E16 and other cute things.
f
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:36:34 +0100, Holger Levsen <debian@layer-acht.org> wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
> On Tuesday 22 February 2005 18:02, Patrick Bachmann wrote:
> > This OldWorld-maschine doesn't want to boot the floppies, I'm trying to
> > feed it with.
> > There are various floppies I have tried, e.g. the woody and sarge boot
> > floppies and the floppies of the rc2 of the debian installer.
> > The only floppy, that gives me some kind of feedback is the
> > boot-floppy-hfs.img. After being read, an icon of a floppy with tux on it,
> > apears. But nothing else happens.
>
> Hmmm... this is the woody floppy and it should work, I guess this might by a
> floppy media issue -> try another floppy.
>
> Always write floppies with "dd" and compare them with "cmp" after writing.
>
> Because of unresolved legal problems with miboot, the official builds of the
> new debian-installer cannot contain working (boot-) floppies images. But they
> are available at
> http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy-2.4/
>
> (Be "warned" that these are unstable builds of d-i which install Debian sid.
> When rc3 is is available, we'll make sure that there will be unofficial
> rc3-builds with miboot, which then can be used to install sarge.)
>
> You could also try ../floppy/ which contains floppy images with 2.6 kernel -
> if you have success with those please report it. (I never had.)
>
> > Can someone please give me a pointer at what to do? I really want to
> > resolve this issue, it has been occupiing me for a while.
>
> Feel free to ask again, if needed...
>
> regards,
> Holger
>
>
>
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