Hi PatrickSo a friend and I are trying to install debian on an old G4 xserver cluster node (specs here). We are following this guide on the debian site http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch04s05.html.en.I don't have any firsthand experience with netbooting Macs, but this page has some hints and example configuration files (which you probably have already seen):
http://wiki.ppckernel.org/w/Mac_NetbootFrom a quick look you seem to be on the right track. Do your dhcp/tftp logs give you any hints?Also (and i'm not sure how useful this will be) I had some problems when trying to NetBoot an old MIPS machine (an SGI Indy) using the Lenny default tftp-hpa configuration. I *think* the problem was that tftp-hpa was defaulting to IPv6 which confused my poor Indy. For me, using another tftp server solved the problem...Good luck!