On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 04:54:28PM -0500, Paul Emerson wrote:
> 
> The floppy gets hit for a few seconds (if that) then nothing; system 
> is just hung.  I've had a few times where I heard the hard disk whirl 
> and then total power shutdown.

  You might want to try a netboot instead.  In my limited
experience, I've never gotten a boot floppy to work on a
PowerMac.  The netbooting has worked fine for me.  It's a bit of
work to set up, but is very well documented, and once it is set
up, you can always netboot for damage control if Bad Things
Happen (root partition gets corrupted, etc).

  Good luck!

  Brian