Re: Installing Debian on a Beige G3 PowerMac (OldWorld)
On 01/01/2007, at 5:16:30PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
Are you interested in installing using the BootX with OS9
bootloader? If so, please read the BootX documentation that comes
with the BootX package and at http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/
bootx/ . Then download and burn a recent "businesscard" or
"netinst" CD from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/
daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ . Then get back to me and I'll
help you walk thru the process. The same steps should work on any
or all of the boxes you mentioned, but I recommend starting with
the beige G3 as it will probably have the fewest "gotcha"s.
I'm mostly interested in getting the machine running reliably any way
it can for my webserver, and have used BootX in the past (this was on
the 6360-6500 and other oldworld powermacs - they've worked well with
Sarge and earlier for a few years now). It's been rock solid, where
quik (I think it was quik) was problematic on a 9500 I tried it on,
as occasionally it'd lose whatever setting in nvram allowed it to
boot into Linux. That may or may not have been a battery problem, but
it was a pain.
In any case, I have BootX re-downloaded the current daily build etch
netinst cd burnt here.
Is there a preferred version of MacOS to run BootX from to minimise
hassles? I have anything from 8.0 to 9.2.2 here.
Thanks for the step-through! I've done this quite a few times before
on earlier Debians, but they generally worked so simply I've just
left them be, and debugging the process is something I need help with.
Dana
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