On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 06:11:31PM -0500, Chris Fisichella wrote: > Hi, > > I am on my sixth attempt to install Debian on a Powerbook G3 > (Wallstreet). I am out of ideas. I have OpenFirmware < 3.0, so I tried > the following: > > 1. boot from floppies. four floppies, two different writing methods; I > think my floppy drive is too picky. > > 2. BootX: I could have sworn I downloaded the ramdisk.img.gz file from > Debian, but, now I go back and cannot find it. I made it the farthest > with this method. I got to the point where it asks for the installation > CD, but, then the installer could not find the files rescue.bin and > powermac/drivers.tgz. I could not find these anywhere on the CD, either. > > 3. yaboot. Did not work as the documentation said it would not. > > 4. Quik: I could not figure out how to create a unix partition for this > program to use. I tried the Apple "Linux Home" partition, but that did > not work. I was skeptical that Apple would support Linux anyhow. Quik can only work after you have completed the installation. It is not useful to start an installation. > Acutely aware of the patience of the readership, I present the > following questions in decreasing order of importance: > > a) Where do I get the ramdisk.img.gz and linux.bin files BootX is > looking for? The installation CD and the ftp site seem to be pushing > yaboot and floppies. These filenames are not used anymore, the installation manual still mentions them, but that is a known bug in the installation manual (bug #344477). The new filenames are "vmlinux" and "initrd.gz" I you aim for an installation started with BootX and loading the rest from an installation-CD, you should use the "cdrom" flavour of the "vmlinux/initrd.gz" files, located at: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/cdrom/ I don't know where on the installation-cd these files are located. > b) Is BootX the way to go? I would like to have both MacOS9 and Sarge > on the same machine. It seems reasonable and, like I wrote previously, > it seemed to work the best for my setup. Yes. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> Signature generated by Signify v1.14. For this and more, visit http://www.debian.org/
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