Re: Problem installing on PowerMac 8600

[Patrick Bachmann <patrickbachmann@gmx.net>]

Hi Holger,

Thanks for your reply.

On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:36 pm, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hmmm... this is the woody floppy and it should work, I guess this might by
> a floppy media issue -> try another floppy.
Well, I went to Staples and got me a new set of floppies that even have a two 
year guarantee on them, but it still didn't work.

> Always write floppies with "dd" and compare them with "cmp" after writing.
That's how I did it for all floppies. cmp can't find any difference. But the 
images just don't get recognized by the Macintosh to be bootable.

> But they are available at
> http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy-2.4/
Hm, I tried those today, but got still no luck.

Tomorrow afternoon, I'll be paying the CS-department's cluster a visit and try 
to write the images there. I have only two working floppy-drives in my 
apartment and neither can write bootable images. No written image gets 
recognized but the woody install image with the earlier described result.

Cheers,

Patrick