Another about installing on an oldworld mac
My first debian install was potato on my G4/450/AGP, and that went
relatively smoothly, but unfortunately, that's my work box, and I need to be
running MacOS 95% of the time on it, so I had to switch back after a few
days of playing with it...However, I've got an old Power Computing Powerwave
132 that I've been trying to install debian on, without a whole lot of
success. I knew about the OF output to serial port issue beforehand, and
picked up a Griffin G4port serial port for my G4 so I could set up the Zterm
terminal app to talk to my Powerwave and tell it to send the output to the
video card and keyboard (since System Disk gave an error saying it didn't
work with my machine). I followed all the steps in both Apple's Open
Firmware Technote and NetBSD's MacPPC FAQ but have not been able to get the
output to display in Zterm despite trying every combination of settings I
could find, and even trying plugging into the printer serial port instead of
the modem port (purely out of desperation), to no avail. The Powerwave stops
booting in just the right place when I use the OF key combo, but nothing
shows up in the terminal. I'm totally stumped and haven't been able to find
any help anywhere else, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Brian McCain
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