Re: OldWorld ROM Macintoshes
Riccardo,
Any Mac with OpenFirmware version <3.0 (or predating OF) is OldWorld. The WallStreet referred to elsewhere in this chain is in fact the last OldWorld Mac ever made.
Your PowerMac 8200 officially supports OS 9, so you should be able to at least attempt installing in accordance with everything mentioned in this chain, running Linux via BootX, etc.
On September 2, 2025 5:01:31 PM CDT, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Cedar Maxwell wrote:
>> Can anyone provide any guidance on how to install Debian onto an
>> OldWorld ROM Macintosh?
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>how old is oldworld?
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>I have a PMac 8200 which has been sitting for years unused. It was my development box for MkLinux, but I think it is perhaps to say goodbye to it, attempts reviving this interesting kernel failed, also by myself, since hacking in kernel code to support ext2 failed :( a pity.
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>It is really old.. first PCI series and so has proper OpenFirmware (v1 if memory serves, those that default to serial console) but has PPC 601 CPU. A strange mix of Apple harware and a PPC cpu which is still POWER compliant... old times!
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>Is that CPU still supported in the kernel or is it dead? I remember that some OS remove it, but I don't remember which.
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>Riccardo
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