Re: Where can I find boot floppies for Apple Mac?
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >> I'd like to install the debian 68k port on an Apple Macintosh LC III. I
> >> was looking for the boot floppies, but I couldn't find them in the
> >> unstable/main/disks-m86k directory (all the subdirs were empty). If there
> >> are only beta boot floppies then I'm willing to try them, if there are
> >> currently no boot floppies of any kind then I guess that I will use
> >> another method (please tell me what it is).
> >
> >Try to look into the stable directory. I recall that I've seen some
> >Mac boot floppies there.
>
> That's where they are, yes. The boot floppies are fine, what's beta is the
> kernel. I've uploaded a new 2.0.33pl1 to the Mac project FTP site; if the one
> on the bot floppy gives you trouble replace it with a newer one.
>
> Michael
Unless Joey has more than one SCSI hard drive attached (and he wants to
use both from Linux), the kernel on the boot disk set should work fine
with his LC III. It did with mine until I started trying to load packages
from the CD-ROM. I will be trying the new 2.0.33 kernel later today to
see how it works with multi-disk systems.
Thanks to the new 2.1.115 (and an lchown patch older version), I was
able to mostly resurrect my LC III from the re-partitioning I did a
couple of weeks ago (finally). Hopefully, the new 2.0.33 kernel will
allow me to fix the rest of it.
Rick
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