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Re: Installing Debian on a Mac 7600 with G3 upgrade



On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:29:33PM -0400, Leyah Cynamon wrote:
> I have a PowerMac 7600 which has an XLR8 400 Mhz  Mach Speed G3 Card
> replacing the original Apple132 Mhz processor (daughter) card.
> 
> I noticed that the BootX 1.2.2 ReadMe says in bold lettering "BootX and
> miBoot should be avoided on "newworld" type machines". As I don't know
> if my machine qualifies as a "new world" type machine, I have to ask:
> has anyone tried BootX on a machine like mine? or is that not such a
> good idea? If Bootx is not an option here., what is?
> 

your machine is OldWorld.  your choices in bootloaders are quik
(openfirmware based) and bootx (macos based).  

NewWorld machines have colored cases, oldworlds are beige.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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