Bis: Linux on a Mac LC475
<The problem waz to install Linux on a Floppyless Mac>
Michael wrote:
> Install a new one, [...]
I thought about it, but it's quite impossible to find a floppy drive
for that Mac in France. (or quite... I thought about it...)
> [...] and reinstall MacOS before planning any further [...]
That ok, but there are three problems :
1. As David J. Ratliff wrote :
> What version of MacOS is recommended
2. Where can i get it ?
3. Won't it take some place ? (HD is only 80Mo)
Olson, Greger J. wrote:
> [...] and you have no net access on the 475.
That's a problem I will have to solve, but not the most imprtant now...
> First do you have a full '040 in your 475, or at least a
> non-broken LC040 ?
It's written 68LC040RC25 on the chip.
Conforming to Motorola's micropro user's manual, that
means a Integer Only 68040. I will have (happily) the Memory Protection,
(MMU is there) but no FPU...
[In fact, that may not be a real matter for the tasks it will do...]
> Can you actually access a Mac formatted SCSI disk on your PC ?
I dunno... I there is a MacFS option during configuring the
kernel (2.2.10), it's Experimental... but that should work.
Little problem : Will FDISK work to create the MacFS partition ? and
is there a kind of 'mkmacfs' for next step ?
> If so you could install the base system from there.
Would a simple cp /mount-point-of-SystemDisks /mount-of-MacFS work ?
> I would recommend getting a CD-ROM drive for the
> Mac and installing off of that. That's what I did on mine.
I may have a possibility of finding an Apple CD300e drive... If that
work, it may be great... Just the problem of finding a System CD...
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