Re: Getting the ol' Macintosh LC475 modernized

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>]

Michael Tomkins dixit:

> I have install instructions for the base_cow.tgz on Quadra 605 and 650
> http://mich431.net/m68k.html I didn't get to X, just console. Just update the

Nice!

But you used base.cow which is really the “buildd” flavour,
that is, minbase without standard tools (such as networking)
but compiler installed.

http://www.freewrt.org/~tg/f/20121227/m68k-base.tgz (tarball) or
http://www.freewrt.org/~tg/f/20121227/m68k-base.e2z (ext2fs image
of 384 MiB size, gzip compressed) are much better starting points.

They require 2.6.32(Debian) or 2.6.34(vanilla) or newer, but really
want at least the 3.2 kernels for normal operation (if you can, go
to 3.10, even though it requires baking the initrd). OpenSSH client
is installed, password “root”.

They will install using the 2.6.38 kernel you used. I suggest to go
this route: boot into them, run apt-get update and apt-get --purge
dist-upgrade, and only then install linux-image-3.10-2-m68k (or
whatever its current name will be; linux-image-m68k is a metapackage
depending on the latest version); this will automatically (via APT)
install initramfs-tools; then copy out /boot/vmlinuz-3.10-2-m68k
and /boot/initrd.img-3.10-2-m68k (or whatever versions are used).

bye,
//mirabilos
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