Re: Problems with install on Power Mac G3 minitower
On (29/03/04 18:39), Ron Murray wrote:
> I've been having lots of problems getting woody installed on a Power
> Mac G3 minitower (300MHz processor, 128M RAM). Being an oldworld box, I
> can't boot it from CD. I tried installing from floppies, but that tended
> to mostly crash just after checking disk partitions on initial kernel
> load. I eventually downloaded the boot files and saved them on one of
> the two hard drives in an HFS partition, and managed to get the
> installer running using BootX.
>
> The machine locks up during the installer process. Sometimes it
> crashes early in the piece, once it almost finished loading the base
> system when it crashed, but crash it always does. It's hard to tell
> exactly what causes the crash, but it seems to be complete (machine no
> longer responds to pings, keyboard, anything except the power switch).
>
> Suggestions welcome. I've done lots of Debian installs on i386 boxes
> in the last eight years, and my main work machine is Debian on Alpha, so
> I do have a fair bit of Debian experience. But this is my first attempt
> at using Linux on a Mac, and I've never really been a Mac person, so
> there's probably a lot I don't understand about them.
>
> I'd try installing sarge (all my other boxes run sarge), but after
> reading the last couple of months worth of archives from this list, I
> think it might be best to start off simple (unless someone has a good
> HOWTO somewhere).
If you search the archives there has been sporadic discussion recently.
The general view is that you need BootX which boots Linux:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-files-oldworld
HTH
Clive
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