On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 03:31:55PM -0400, Jacob Fugal wrote: <snip/> > Method: I tried installing a Power Macintosh G3 (Beige minitower) from a > floppy. I tried copying the image boot.img from my current Debian box using > the command "dd ..." as specified on to four different floppies. I tried > .../floppy and .../floppy-2.4 and put the floppy in the system and as soon > as it booted up, it spit the disk out of the system. > The screen showed a floppy disk with an x in it. Reinserting did nothing.
That is the behaviour of floppies without valid boot information. > Machine: Power Macintosh G3 (Beige minitower) Processor: > Memory: ? > Root Device: ? > Root Size/partition table: ? <snip/> > Comments/Problems: > Boot.img seems not to work as the manual states the system will boot of > the floppy if inserted before powerup and will spit it out if it doesn't > recognize it as a boot disk. Yes, indeed. > I cleaned the floppy disk out good with compressed air, and used rubbing > alcohol on a q-tip on the heads and no improvement. It might be a bad > floppy drive I guess, but I have no way to test it as I have only one > macintosh floppy drive. Can you write and read under Mac OS on that floppy drive? > Is there any way to take the hard drive out of the system, install some > files somewhere else and then try booting Debian? I also admit I have no > SCSI card, and no hard drive with any MAC OS on it to setup files like > this on it. Is a CD ROM an option for you? Cheers Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
