Re: Please Help
Hey! Exactly what I have! (Okay, almost. I have a Quadra 610--same machine,
different name, as far as I know)
I've discovered you don't need to make a floppy with ms-dos on it. You need
to set up the Penguin booter to look for your root.bin and ramdisk
(/dev/ram) directly on a mac partition. I have mine set up with a 1G HD,
with Mac-OS taking up about 300 MB (for Mac OS 8 and such) and the rest
devoted to Linux. When the booter/install comes up, you can choose to
install/reformat the Linux part however you want. You then want to mount
your root partition, then you want to mount your Mac HFS partition, which is
"mount a previously initialized partition." The Mac part then becomes /usr
or whatever you want to call it. I called mine /mnt. So the root partition
is /target and the mac partition is /target/mnt. Then you simply tell the
installer where you've got your install file (base2_1.tgz isn't it, for
slink?) When you're done there...continue on your Linux adventure!
HTH
Russell
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>From: Robert Kubinec <bob@idigjesus.com>
>To: debian-68k@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: Please Help
>Date: Sun, Mar 19, 2000, 20:15
>
>
>> > I have a mac Centris 610. I'm trying to install Debian (slink) but the
>> > only kernel that seems to work on my system is the 2.2.10. However, there
>> > is no support for the msdos file format, which is what the floppy format
>> > is.
>>
>> Hi-
>>
>> I dont know a lot about Macs, but did you rebuild your 2.2.10 kernel to
>> include MsDos filesystem support. Although I don't know about Macs, I
>> know this works on a m68k Amiga.
>The only compiler for the mac (I think) is MPW. I used to have it but I got
>rid of it because I was running out of room (it's huge). Also, I don't know
>how to build the kernel with the module and I don't know which modules are
>where and do what. Thanks in advance ;)
>
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