Re: debian on the 7200
>> I'm not an expert on powerpc machines but can you boot on CD ?
>> from the OF perhaps ? (there is something on this in the linux ppc archives)
>
> no bootable CDs don't work on oldworld machines. (well the LinuxPPC
> 2000 supposedly boots them but LinuxPPC is too broken for words IMNSHO)
>
Yeah, the LinuxPPC 2000 CD boots great on an old-world powermac, using what
looks to me like miBoot... but Debian is so much nicer.
>> If so the image from the official site is fine for start.
>> The information from the thread on installing iMac DVD is helpfull also.
>
> you are fortunate and have newworld hardware, its openfirmware is FAR
> less broken then the oldworld OF (such as that in the 7200)
>
>> With this I was able to boot my linux box. Thanks one more time for those
>> who help :-)
>
> newworlds are quite a bit less painful to bootstrap then oldworld (so
> long as you create the fscking bootstrap partition correctly)
>
> --
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
>
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