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.