Re: Installing Debian on a Beige G3 PowerMac (OldWorld)

[Dana Sibera <dana@danamania.com>]

On 30/12/2006, at 5:33:31PM, Rick Thomas wrote:

> If you are OK with OS9 and BootX, I suggest you get a copy of the  
> BootX 1.2.2 (latest -- vintage April, 2000) software from BenH's  
> web page, http://penguinppc.org/historical/benh/ and read the  
> documentation that comes with it.  Once you've got that under your  
> belt, we can proceed with the actual installation.

Even if Stephen doesn't respond, I'd love to know the exact steps  
others taken to get a standard Etch running on the oldworld G3, as  
I'm starting to think I'm messing something up, or at least missing  
out on a few kernel arguments vital to getting things running on the  
beige. I've tried a 5500, 6500, 6360, 6400 and two beige G3s in the  
last week with Etch kernels, either from fresh new installs or  
upgrading a working fresh Sarge install, and the best I can get from  
an Etch kernel is not finding the root filesystem after install,  
mostly the kernels just lock up before getting to the point where the  
penguin appears.

Dana