Re: Install for quadra 660av
On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 04:21:11PM +0100, mriscott@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> > Does this machine have a way to boot from cdrom?
> > It ejects my floppy (rescue.bin) as soon as it powers up... (just before
> > it switches to the mac-os logo)
>
> However, I am pretty sure that doesn't work for booting to debian.
Entirely correct. According to:
http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/m68k/ch-rescue-boot.en.html
"Subject to limitations in some cases, you may boot the installation
system from a Debian GNU/Linux CD-ROM, floppy disks, a partition on a
hard disk, or from another machine via a local area network. In the
case of Macintosh, you must retain the original Mac system and boot
from it."
Section 5.2, Booting from a CD-ROM: "Currently, the only Motorola
680x0 subarchitecture that supports CD-ROM booting is the BVME6000."
Section 5.3, Booting from Floppies: "Booting from the rescue floppy is
supported only for Atari and VME (with a SCSI floppy drive on VME) at
this time."
And Section 5.4.3, Booting from 68k MacOS: "At the MacOS desktop,
start the Linux installation process by double-clicking on the Penguin
Prefs icon ..."
The install guide is extensive, and there are enough quirks between
m68k (Macs especially) and the way people are used to installing Linux
on i386 to where first-timers simply must refer to it.
--
Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research,
931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- renfro@tntech.edu
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