Successfull! - Debian install on biege G3
What a right royal pain in the butt for the last few months trying to get
this running, success at last!
Many thanks to all for recent advice and that buried away in the archives.
For any other unfortunate soul who's just starting out with an beige g3
oldworld install, my experience follows:
Small OS9 partition. BootX with relevant files (ie root.img and vmlinux)
2nd large partiton, I allowed partion guider to set it up for me.
At the partioner make a note of which partition macos uses. Something like
#6
Ignore messages regards quik at end of d-i set-up, ctrl-alt-f2 to CLI
This thread I found useful but incomplete, you need to chroot not cd to the
directory:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/10/msg00628.html
I found that there was no module available straight from the installer to
mount the os9 partition. From the above post and others I then
# chroot target
Then
# mount -t hfs /dev/sda6 mnt
With the mac partition mounted, copy the files as per
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/08/msg00291.html
Exit the CLI, switch to installer (ctrl-alt-f1) and finish without
bootloader.
Once in OS9 copy use the initrd.img-2.6.8-powerpc as your RAM disk and
select the vmlinux-2.6.8-powerpc. No arguments.
Then, BOOT IN LINUX........
Installation report to follow
____________other links I found useful_____________
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/09/msg01709.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/09/msg01748.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/11/msg00165.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/10/msg02187.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/10/msg00138.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/08/msg00671.html
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