Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot
getting debian 3.0 up and running on the 7100/ 8100 series is not as bad as
it sounds. i have done it over 5 times here -- so please contact me off list
and i can walk anyone who is interested through it.
dylan
on 03.1.16 0:19 PM, Clive Menzies at clive@clivemenzies.co.uk wrote:
> At 11:14 am -0500 16/1/03, Derrik Pates wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:06:13AM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
>>> Incidentally, have you managed to read floppies at all? I haven't
>>> spent much time on it 'cos I don't need floppy access; I couldn't get
>>> it to work under potato either. Someone suggested it may be related
>>> to SWIM II v SWIM III - I can't remember the details.
>>
>> Last I knew (when last I ran Linux on a NuBus-based PowerMac), SWIM2 was
>> still not supported in any way, shape or form - there was no driver for
>> it at all, and no one even pretended to know how to talk to it or
>> anything. Unless that's changed, Linux won't see or talk to a SWIM2 at
>> all. If you have a box with one, I'm sure there would be some happy
>> folks if you could figure out how to talk to it.
>
> I fear this challenge may be beyond my meagre technical skills but
> there may be someone who can ;-)
>
> Regards
>
> Clive
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