On May 27, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
If you have network available you can also try to install a tftp serversomewhere and netboot the installer. The procedure is available here: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch05s01.html#boot-tftp(for me i need to specify boot enet:0,yaboot in order to get the yabootbinary from the tftp server)
Giulio--You mentioned you had an x86 machine. You could put your tftp server there and remove it after the G3's up and running.
The data connection for the CD-ROM is standard. If you have a working CD-ROM lying around you could take the skins off the iMac and hook it up. Don't worry about the audio traces.
In the event the disk is partitioned, you could use the MAC OS to put the bootstrap on an HFS partition and boot it from OF. But proceed carefully you won't get another chance after repartitioning the disk for debian.
--rich