Re: Installing Debian on an SE/30
Hi, Brad Boyer wrote:
> 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.
IIRC, Wish I Were patches the Gestalt (and other) traps to correct that.
Confirmation that Penguin sees the right values would be nice though.
--
Matthias Urlichs
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