Re: Installing Debian on an SE/30
Sorry, Brad, for the duplication, but I forgot to edit the "To" line
before sending it. Dagnabbit, it's not supposed to work that way! =(
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 01:20:08AM -0500, Jesse R. Lucke wrote:
>> Hee hee. Yes, that's true--and this SE/30 really does have 7.6.1
installed. The secret ingredient? Insert 1 IIfx (or IIsi) ROM. Add a
pinch of Wish I Were. Presto, chango! A 32-bit clean SE/30! It'll even
support 8.1, or so I'm told... (hopefully this hasn't been fouling
Linux... :-)
>
> This would almost certainly choke up Linux if you are changing the
gestalt ID of the machine. Linux currently trusts the ID passed
> in by Penguin in order to check for installed hardware.
>
Hmm. I did have Wish I Were set to 'IIfx,' but hadn't thought about the
implications of that.
> In particular, the VIA style is drastically different on the IIfx and
IIsi compared to an SE/30, and that is determined entired based on the
ID passed in by Penguin. Just that one little detail would totally
destroy interrupt handling and ADB, particularly if it thinks it is
really a IIfx.
>
> What does Linux think the machine is? I'm pretty sure it prints
> that out early in the boot process, and it's definitely in a
> file in /proc somewhere.
>
Penguin it was a IIfx; some of my Mac apps did, others didn't. OS 7.6.1
doesn't seem to care one way or the other what ID the machine has--I
changed the ID just 'cause the ROM hack instructions I had said to, but
apparently it isn't necesary.
Apparently some aspect of the ID-trickery was in fact fouling the
formatting process as when I told Wish I Were to report the true value the
installer suddenly started working right. It'll even boot properly (still
from Penguin) with extensions enabled.
Now, of course, it refuses to mount my Debian CD. Maybe I should try a
newer CD drive--I'm using an old Sony/Apple 2x caddy loader. Any hints
getting it to snag the data from the disc if I mount it on my PPC and make
it available via FTP/HTTP? I tried this last night, and my server (FTPd)
reported a hit but also an error.
Thanks,
Jesse
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