Re: old world power pc with just debian?
On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 12:04:47PM -0500, mdfranz@io.com wrote:
>
> A while back I had good luck first installing potato on a 7500 and then
> booting with a SuSE 2.4.12 coff boot disk and than upgrading to potato by
> modifying the sources list. This same technique didn't work on an SuperMac
> c500.
>
> I have not been able to get the woody completely installed from the boot
> disks because it has difficulting finding the files from
> http.us.debian.org although I copied some to a local webserver and almost
> got there???
>
> Some folks have had success modifying the System file on the miboot HFS
> boot disks to change the ramdisk and root disk locations, but it hasn't
> worked for me using a hexeditor or the perl script that is in the
> powerpc-specials on cvs.debian.org
>
> My next step is to try to build a yaboot CD (I believe Old Worlds support
> this).
No Oldworlds definitely will not run yaboot. And I haven't had any luck
booting quik from a CD, I think there is no CD driver for oldworld.
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| Chris Tillman tillman@voicetrak.com |
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