On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 06:29:15PM -0400, Patrice LaFlamme wrote: > hello, > > So here's what I did: > > I booted from the LinuxPPC 2000 CD. then on my P166, I gunzipped the > debian ramdisk.image.gz, mounted it, and got the mac-fdisk. I was rewarded > by a miracle: I could use mac-fdisk to create and WRITE the partition > map!! i figured as much, everything in linuxppc 2000 is very broken. i have an account on a linuxppc2000 box and in about 15 minutes i found the termcap was totally broken (i cannot type a `) screen is broken (broken libraries) and then i discovered that the compiler or such is broken, when i compile lftp from source all it did was segfault (i could start it but trying to use it to do much of anything segfaulted) i then tried compiling a few other things and the compiler started segfaulting... > Then I could use the LinuxPPC Xinstaller to install LinuxPPC.... but, now, > how can I boot without MacOS? yaboot isn't an option, this not being a > NewWorld machine. I heard/read about miboot, but never found any hard and miboot won't work without macos disk drivers, the only way to install macos disk drivers is to partition with a macos partitioner then delete the main HFS partition and create linux partitions. the only option for booting you have is quik. you will have to get the debian quik installed since linuxppc does not include it, or includes a broken one that won't work. > useful information. Where do I get it? How do I install it? Still bear in > mind that I have no MacOS, and no other way of booting my powerbook other > than with the LinuxPPC installation CD. miboot is not an option for you. > I know I have to create a /boot or /miBoot hfs partition for miBoot and > install a kernel there. Ok, that's done. what now? don't bother with an HFS partition, it won't do you any good since oyu don't have macos. use quik instead. what you need to do is put the debian root.bin image in / the debian kernel in / then configure a quik.conf to point at them (with initrd=/root.bin) run quik and change your boot-device OpenFirmware variable (get ofpath out of latest ybin it should work on a 3400 i think, it will tell you the right openfirmware path) if quik goes well you should be booted into debian dbootstrap where you can most of the partitions and install debian. what i would do to start is partition everything how you want it to be, with a seperate /home partition at a very minimum. don't bother with /boot or HFS partitions, you don't have macos and miboot is not an option. put the debain install files in /home, when you get to dbootstrap skip partitioning (already done) and erase all the partitions EXCEPT /home (to eliminate the linuxppc cruft) then install the kenrel and modules from the files you put in /home (you will have to mount it, there is an option to do that in dbootstrap) you can install the base system from over http. don't forget to `make bootable from hard disk' which should hopefully get quik working (OF will already be set) at that point if all goes well you have will debian base installed. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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