Hello!I installed Debian Woody to my PowerMac 7200/90 just yesterday. I booted from boot-floppy, and then switched root-floppy to disk drive. After that I complete normal network (http) install. Everything simple works out of box... wow! Before that I tried several other distributions, but none of them actually works for me. I have only 32mt memory, and those graphical installers needs a way more.
I deleted all my partitions ( press "i" to initialize disk in fdisk) during install, an I am using quik as bootloader. Only drawback is that with quik it's not easy to deal with a dual-boot systems, but it's ok to me since this is Linux-only machine. Quik doesn't need any special boot-partitions, make only normal Linux-partitions you need.
Only real problem is that because that version of Open Firmware doesn't drive display, I have never actually seen quik to boot, only blank screen. After linux starts to boot everything is ok. I haven't figured out yet how I can boot different kernels, ie how to use quik boot-menu with my blank screen...
-jkarjanl
Hello all, I've given up for the E20 IBM and reinstalled AiX on it. Let's wait for next release of debian. Anyway, I found another worthy computer : PowerMacintosh 7200/90. Does anyone know how to install linux on it and if I really need that stupid little MacOS partition on the disk. Thanks for help in advance, Jean-Francois-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-request@lists.debian.orgwith a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
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