Le Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 00:32:35 +0100, Matthew Garrett a écrit: > Simon Raven wrote: > > > just because you haven't been able to use and install on one machine > > correctly doesn't mean that they're all like that... (i can troll too > > you know ;). some suck yes, but not all of them do. a lot of them are > > quite easy to install on. i've worked on clones to the late power > > macintosh ones (8x00), and the 7500-7500 and the 8500-8600 are > > especially easy. and the 7200 is relatively simple to do, just need the > > right serial cable (possibly hacked) and another machine. > > Eh? 7200 installs are entirely possible without a serial cable, but are a > bugger to do the OF configuration on due to the lack of a video driver. > You can do it entirely from within Linux, though. But unless someone cares > sufficiently to do it, support in debian-installer won't happen. I have > appropriate hardware here, so I may take a look at it in a couple of weeks > time once my current deadline is out of the way. ok my bad. i haven't worked on 7200s yet. i would volunteer my own machine, but it's the server around here, and i don't want to FUBAR it, as it is one of the only 2 boxen we have. i would do it at ex-mac, but i'm loaded up with several projects, one of them is porting LTSP to PPC... eric > -- > Matthew Garrett | mjg59-linux.debian.maint.boot@srcf.ucam.org > I am currently angry about: > GConf > http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mjg59/angry/3.html > -- ##-----------------------------------------------------------------## | http://www.nuit.ca/ | http://simonraven.nuit.ca/ | | PGP key ID: 6169 BE0C 0891 A038 | | ##-----------------------------------------------------------------##
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