Re: Where can I find boot floppies for Apple Mac?
Hi,
>> And the Mac FTP site is baltimore.wwaves.com. Might be aliased as
>> ftp.mac.linux-m68k.org (and that address should be in the FAQ).
>I've read the installation guide and learned that I need to keep a Mac
>partition in order to install the base system. But I found base14 images
The next version of the install guide spells it out a bit more clearly: you
will need a Mac partition _forever_ to boot Linux. The booter runs from MacOS,
there's no way to boot Linux without first booting MacOS.
It's pretty much the same on Amiga and Atari for a long time (bar the new
m68klilo) so I forgot to emphasize that point. Trashing the Mac partition means
reinstalling MacOS first, else no Linux.
>in the common directory, so can I install the base system from them?
>I'm planning to take the following steps:
>1. create the resc and the drv disks
What install guide did you read? Mine instructs you to dump _one_ disk image to
floppy, and copy everything else to a directory on the Mac partition. The
disk image is the Debian-68k-2.0.image, and you need DiskCopy 4.2 or later
to get it to the floppy.
>2. create the five base disks
Get base2_0.tgz in one piece if possible.
>3. boot from the rescue disk
Or from the stuff in debian/ after unpacking install.sit.
>4. repartition the hard disk, leaving ONLY a swap and a root partition
There goes your MacOS - and Linux with it. See above. Repartition and leave a
MacOS partition big enough to hold the necessary MacOS items. Ask other Mac
users how to do that - I'm no MacOS expert. Might be as easy as copying the
whole System folder to a new partition/disk and setting that one as the startup
disk.
I just hope you didn't go ahead trashing your Mac ...
>5. install as I would on an i386 architecture
Almost. You can't use the floppy from Linux, so everything has to be on the Mac
partition. And you can't make Linux bootable from disk, or make a boot floppy,
after everything is installed. Other quirks are described in the install guide
as well.
>Is this possible? I'm a bit confused about which floppies to create using
>a Mac and a PC. Can I create all seven of them using a PC?
You can create the rescue floppy on a PC if your Mac can read DOS floppies. But
the rest is useless.
Michael
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