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Re: OF setting for Quik booting in a 7200



Leandro Dutra wrote:
> 
>         Could I please have your help?  I have three Macs which I intend to
> use with Debian.  I'm experienced in IBM PC-compatibles installations but
> never succeeded in a RISC one - have already tried a Digital Alpha and a
> beige G3.
> 
>         Now I have a 7200/75 from which I eliminated any HFS traces thru the
> i command in mac-fdisk.  I booted it with diskettes (the ones with kernel
> 2.2.17) and performed the installation up to almost the end.  Then I've
> tryed nvsetenv but it failed not finding /dev/nvram.
> 
>         Any ideas?  Also, if there are docs besides the ones in
> http://debian.org./ and the CD I would like to know.
> 
>         TIA!
> 
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I've spent the last month trying to get QUIK to work on a 7200, if you want to
get it working in a reasonable time, make a 50MB hfs partition install MacOS 8.5
and bootX.  It'll make the easiest boot loader I've ever worked with, 'cept for
lilo.

Mike



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