Re: Booting/ installing Debian on a G3 with Open Firmware 2.4

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

I have a couple of old beige G3's.  They will boot from an  
appropriately setup "miboot" floppy, which is not part of the  
"normal" debian distribution, due to freeness problems with miboot  
(which may have been fixed recently?).  Such miboot floppies are  
available but I don't have a suitable URL.  Sven used to provide  
them, but I think somebody else has taken that job over recently.

The way I usually boot a beige G3 into debian Linux is with MacOS-9  
(though I'm told MacOS-8.5 works just as well and takes up less disk  
space if you are tight on that commodity) and the BootX extension.   
That works pretty reliably.

Rick


On Jun 26, 2006, at 3:32 AM, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 15:41:36 -0700, Jason Self wrote:
>
> > On 6/24/06, Michael Fuckner <michael@fuckner.net> wrote:
> > > The Machine seems to be only netbootable
> >
> > The beige G3 is also able to boot from CD. Insert CD and hold down  
> > "C"
> > on the keyboard while the machine powers up, searches for startup
> > devices, finds the CD and then begins to boot it. You can then  
> > release
> > the "C" key. If you have a working CD drive, that might be simpler?
> >
> > Check out http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
>
> I'm sorry, but you are both wrong. Such machines are neither  
> netbootable
> nor CD-bootable, except for specially mastered non-free CDs which  
> Debian
> does not provide. You MUST use a floppy, unless you pull the HD and  
> image
> it on another machine.
>
>
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