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

[Michael Fuckner <michael@fuckner.net>]

Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:

> 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. 
I read something about plain iso with no joliet... perhaps I'll try this.

> You MUST use a floppy, unless you pull the HD and image
> it on another machine.
I don't think so. The floppy drive doesn't even try to access the media 
inserted, the only thing I can do is eject. But that's no surprise, 
since the documentation from the NetBSD-Project, I linked in the first 
post, says that this version of OpenFirmware doesn't know how to deal 
with a floppy drive.

OK, I'll try to bot this machine via ethernet, like I did for NetBSD.

Regards,
 M.Fuckner