Le Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 20:04:44 -0500, Rick Thomas a �it: > Hi Simon, > > Can you give a blow-by-blow installation procedure for installing debian > on oldworld Macs without BootX? I've done it for woody with BootX -- I > haven't figured out how to do woody without BootX. Unfortunately, sarge > has completely eluded me so far -- with or without BootX. > > Thanks! > > Rick apt-get install quik, configure it, configure OF for booting from the HDD, and you're done. there's plenty of docs around: the install guide, the quik docs at penguinppc.org, and my site under /macppc/. for specifics on OF and hardrware issues see /macppc/models.shtml (partial port of the info hosted at netbsd.org). any issues that those docs don't cover, email me offlist or meet me at #debianppc at the freenode irc network. i usually boot from floppy (woody b-f ;), then run quik from the main menu :). at least for the first time. then i check the nvram settings and /etc/quik.conf to make changes (the default timeout= of 100 is way too high for instance). oh, and you might want a backport of quik (if you're on woody still; sarge might have the fixed quik: reads symlinks, and can read/load kernels larger than 4 MB). oh, i'm not subbed to this list, so please CC: me. > simon@nuit.ca wrote: > > > <rant> > > having a non-free os to boot the machine defeats the purpose of having a > > free one installed. it's a kludge. one that i would prefer avoiding. i > > install debian onto many oldworld pmacs, and not having mac os there is > > a blessing. let's not go into the bad old days of having to use bootx to > > boot to linux. you might as well just not install linux (i don't even > > have mac driver partitions on my drives, i *don't* need them). > > </rant> > > -- @@-----------------------------------------------------------------@@ | ,''`. http://www.debian.org/ | http://www.nuit.ca/ | | : :' : Debian GNU/Linux | http://simonraven.nuit.ca/ | | `. `' | PGP key fingerprint (new one): | | `- | 7C49 FD9C 1054 7300 3B7B | | | 8BF4 6A88 7AE2 711D F097 | @@-----------------------------------------------------------------@@
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