Bug#315393: Problems installing Sarge on OldWorld 7300/200 Mac

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

On Jun 22, 2005, at 6:45 AM, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

>   * The 7300/200 seems to not be able to boot off a CD-ROM, at least I
>     failed to do that using
>      
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/powerpc/iso-cd/debian 
> -31r0a-powerpc-businesscard.iso
>     Maybe I just used a wrong boot command line, but the install
>     instructions are somewhat poor describing the actual boot process
>     (note: I just got these Macs and never ever touched any Mac  
> before).


Booting the OldWorld PPC Macs from a CD is only possible if the CD has  
special Apple-proprietary drivers on it.  For Debian to make an install  
CD image with those drivers would be a violation of the Debian freeness  
guidelines... as well as illegal in most countries.

Bottom line: you have to use some kind of subterfuge, such as BootX or  
a floppy with miboot on it, to install Debian GNU/Linux on an OldWorld  
Mac.


Rick