Re: Re: Old world mac

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

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.


Rick



On Tuesday, August 10, 2004, at 10:02 PM, Eric D. Hedekar wrote:

> > > Any one of these three bugs will render debian-installer unusable for
> > > anyone with anything but a "plain vanilla" hardware or networking
> > > environment who doesn't have help from a competant System
> > > Administrator, or have such skills personally.  Since I'm the 
> > > only one
> > > on this list who cares two figs about OldWorld PowerPC hardware, 
> > > and I
> > > have UNIX SysAdmin experience going back 25 years (including some
> > > pretty unusual hardware!), I guess it's not a show stopper...  Still,
> > > there *might* be some folks out there in the "real world" (TM), who
> > > will be disappointed that they can't figure out how to install 
> > > the new
> > > Debian release on their particular old Macintosh hardware.  You never
> > > know!
>
>
> Hi, I never recieved your original e-mail, however I have a Umax 
> S-900 that
> does not want to load the new installer.  I have attempted to load 
> woody and
> upgrade but I would rather do a fresh install and wipe the old 
> stuff clean.
> Do you have any tips specific to this box? (I recieved the 
> response you gave
> to the 7600 so if there's something there that I need to do, don't 
> bother to
> retype it, just reference to it)
>
> -Thanks.
> Eric Hedekar