Re: Problems with install on Power Mac G3 minitower
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 04:41:55PM -0500, Ron Murray wrote:
> At Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:30:25 +0200,
> Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 04:01:59PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > > Ron,
> > >
> > > I've done it (install woody on an OldWorld PowerMac) successfully.
> > > Email me at <rbthomas55@pobox.com> if you need help.
> > >
> > > You need BootX, as you have found out. You also need to make sure that
> > > your MacOS partition is HFS, not HFS+, so that you can copy updated
> > > kernels to it while running Linux. (Or you need a ZIP drive formatted
> > > as HFS to use as intermediate storage between Linux and MacOS.)
> > >
> > > Sarge on OldWorld machines is not ready for prime time yet. The problem
> > > is with the installer, not the code it installs. You may be able to get
> > > to sarge by installing woody and doing "apt-get upgrade". I' haven't
> > > tried it myself.
> >
> > That is,i believe, a little exagerated. The only point missing is the
> > building of the miboot boot floppy. The rest of debian installer should
> > work just fine, thanks to the great work of Jeremie Koenig on this.
> >
> > Friendly,
> >
> > Sven Luther
>
> Thanks for the help, folks. Sven, do you have the URL for the sarge
> installer? Given that woody hangs when I try to install, I think sarge
> might be worth trying.
Try the oldwolrd build by Jeremie on :
http://sprite.fr.eu.org/d-i-oldworld/floppy/
They are from march 25 though, and i am trying to get the needed miboot
stuff free enough to get into contrib at least, so the last piece of it
can be built.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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