Re: Install Potato 2.2r2 from CD onto Old World Mac?
If you are using BootX, I downloaded the ramdisk from the ftp site and put
it in the system folder. Then in BootX, I clicked on options and made it
use the ramdisk. then you can boot off of the ramdisk and install off of
the CD.
on 00.12.31 20:48, Garry Roseman at memphis@macconnect.com wrote:
> At 21:20 -0600 12/9/00, Garry Roseman wrote:
>> I installed the Debian Potato release w/ dmasound onto a PowerMac
>> 7600/G3 some weeks ago. I've been going up the learning curve
>> fairly smoothly. Now that I have the fundamentals working
> ...
>
> I'm celebrating on New Year's Eve by installing Debian Linux on my
> "other" computer. Happy New Year to all gracious Linux folk!
>
> I bought the new official Potato CD set, 2.2r2, and tried installing
> Debian ppc on my PowerMac clone, a PowerComputing PowerWave 150 (it's
> an Old World PCI Mac, like a 7600).
>
> First, the CD is not bootable on that computer or on my PowerMac
> 7600. Huh? The Linuxppc 2000 CD boots just fine on these computers.
> <snort> [Could I make a bootable installation CD on my already
> functioning Debian PowerMac 7600? It has a Plextor CD writer and dual
> boots Debian Potato 2.2 and MacOS 9.]
>
> Second, the install floppies can't be used for installing. The first
> image, the boot floppy, which I created on my functioning Debian
> Linux box using dd, does boot the PowerComputing machine and then
> asks for the root disk. When I insert the root disk and hit return
> nothing happens. There is no response, as if the keyboard is dead.
> I tried this with the Apple adb keyboard that is standard equipment
> on that computer and also with a Microsoft USB keyboard that is
> attached to a USB board on the PCI bus. Of course, I tried making a
> new root disk but that doesn't help. I tried disconnecting one or
> the other of the keyboards but that doesn't help either. (The
> PowerComputing machine had been successfully running Linuxppc 2000
> and both keyboards were working fine with that older kernel.)
>
> I checked the list archive and Ethan's web site; it didn't help me.
>
> There is something I don't know --- how to install Potato 2.2r2 onto
> an old world Mac. Thank you kindly for advice.
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