Debian on a Wallstreet

A google search turned the post below up. The poster talks about a Debian Sarge install, but you might be able to get some tips off it nonetheless.

http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org/msg53319.html

Is there a way I can create a startup floppy (I have a floppy drive) to start the installer from there?

Hi Bill,

Have you tried the links from this web page? Apparently, if your Wallstreet has a working Mac OS right now, you could use the Disk Copy 6.3.3 utility to create properly sector-copied floppies from an appropriate downloadable disk image file.

Jan

Addendum

One may have to press and hold the four keys Command(Apple) + Option(Alt) + Shift + Delete(Backspace) when trying to boot from a CD, in order to bypass an existing operating system on the internal hard disk.

Something like the Disk Tools PPC (download here; use the Make a Floppy command under the Utilities menu of Disk Copy 6.3.3 to create an actual floppy) may per se allow a start from the floppy drive. However, this would be a simplified Mac OS startup, without support for reading CDs (an Apple CD-ROM extension could be added through a floppy modification).

A CompactFlash memory card in a PC Card adapter for CF (similar to this one) can often be useful for file transfers et cetera. Some PowerBook models do even allow a startup from the CF card (which must then be Mac-reformatted, and contain a valid system folder).

The above information is for normal Mac OS operations (certain parts could perhaps be of interest in connection with Linux experiments).

Jan

Bill,

I have to guess here (no way of testing anything right now). Can the downloaded image file be expected to have its Type and Creator already set correctly? Probably not, unless the download has been encoded (which it does not appear to be). You may have to take a look at the procedure in section 4.3.3.1. here.

Jan