boot floppies on the mac
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> but maybe some mac+atari users would like to run potato as well.
>
have some good news and some bad news.
Good news: the mac boot floppies work fairly well specificly:
I downloaded rootmac.bin rescuemac.bin macdrivers.tgz base2_2.tgz linuxmac
I renamed macdrivers.tgz and macrescue.bin to drivers.tgz and rescue.bin
and put on the hfs partition
I set the kernel(penguin 17) to linuxmac and ram disk to rootmac.bin and
changed
root=/dev/ram(leaving in place the default options that came with slink
other then that)
i booted
threw me into the installer, went through all the steps fine until install
kernel and modules stage. Initially i wanted to test the network. It
could not configure dhcp, and when i mnaually entered the info it still
didn't work. my theory: the computer didn't have a built in ehternet
orginally but does have one in the nubus slot #4. I'm guessing that eth0
doens't look to slot #4. anyway, anyone know how i could check that?
I went ahead and told the installer to get the stuff from the hfs
partition, that actually worked without a hitch(1st time that has *ever*
happened for me on *any* mac system ppc or m68k) Anyway, when it came to
configuring the modules it listed all the modules, but would give an error
no matter what module i chose(i have this written down somewhere, but
right now i have more important things to do, like recovering a crashed
hard drive on my g3 :/). I think the error was something like root
doesn't have permsion or is not owner for /lib/<module> or *something like
that* I'll try to get more details later. Anyway the rest fo the install
went smooth(installed base from hfs partition), i rebooted, and booted
back in linux speciffying root=/dev/sda6
I didn't apy too close attention when it booted but it seemed to hang when
it was attempting to set the system clock from the hardwork clock, at that
point i ran out of time. Anyway, i'm certain there are certain things i
can do to make my testing more useful, what would those steps be?
fyi:
model: Quadra 950 24 megs of ram
/dev/sda5 = 20 M hfs
/dev/sda6 = 476 M ext2
/dev/sda6 = 26 M swap
no cd-rom
no working floppy drive(not that it matters)
boots off a zip disk
added a nubus 10 baseT twisted pair apple ehternet card
Clay
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