Re: Install on a PowerMacintosh 7200/90
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 12:11:56PM +0300, Janne Karjanlahti wrote:
> 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...
Right. You can't, unless you hook up another machine. It's sending
and receiving over the modem port. Nice to hear it worked well in
spite of that. The potato version does _not_ work so well, so I'd
advise installing woody.
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| debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> |
| Chris Tillman tillman@voicetrak.com |
| May the Source be with you |
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