Re: Old world mac
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:43:01AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Install MacOS-9. Then use the BootX boot-loader. (or 8.5 or 8.6,
> if 9 won't run on the S-900. I've never seen one of those, so I
> don't know what will run on it and what wont. I'm told that BootX
> even works with MacOS 7.5, if your machine can run it and you have
> a floppy drive to install it from.) You don't need much of MacOS
> to do the trick -- 200 MB is more than enough. But, if you can
> spare about 500MB to dedicate to MacOS, an "easy install" is a lot
> simpler than going thru all the options at install time trying to
> intuit whether you will need that feature...) One cute trick, if
> you have a 100MB Zip drive, is to use the IoMega tools to make an
> "emergency boot" Zip disk, which takes up less than 50 MB, even
> after you add the BootX and Linux kernel/initrd files and a couple
> of other useful tools. Once you have the emergency boot zip drive
> in hand, you can copy it to a small (under 100 MB) HFS partition on
> your hard drive, and have yourself the most feature-ful boot loader
> that ever was.
>
> One other thought. use the 2.4.25 kernel (or later in the 2.4
> series.) The 2.6 kernels are missing some drivers for the OldWorld
> Mac peripherals. (The drivers are available as modules, but
> getting them installed is not [yet] automatic. I'm trying to get
> the developers to fix this, but not many of them seem to care...
Rick, why don't you get an alioth account, get added to the d-i project, and
fix it yourself ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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