Re: While I was at it...
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 05:07:37AM +0200, Christian Müller wrote:
> Sven,
>
>
> ftp://.../images/2005-10-28/powerpc/floppy/
>
> thinking it was the latest and greatest of a bootfloppy I could get =),
> I gave the 20051028 boot.img a try (pursuing a way around minimal woody
> and then dist-upg to sarge). didn't work, unfortunately - spits it out.
> didn't try 20050615 or other dates yet <-- which floppies would make
> sense to try out, which should work on a beige G3revII? is there a way
> to boot 31r0a powerpc netinst directly on this machine via
> openfirmware/other methods (tried putting vmlinuz.xcoff.somewhat path in
> the boot-device variable, it's probably utterly wrong).
It should work, can you make sure your floppy drive is cleaned and your
floppies are not broken ?
Also, could you try booting :
http://people.debian.org/~luther/miboot.floppy
Which is known to work, and report.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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