Re: Oldworld PPC install
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 10:20:20AM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've recently come into possession of a Power Macintosh G3 in beige case. I
> understand this to be oldworld mac. It has a 6GB IDE disk, a 4.3 GB SCSI
> disk and 320 MB RAM.
>
I installed one of those some time ago. Was a bit of a headache the
first time. (There was no scsi disk in there though).
Its actually somewhat of a middle world, its not old world and not new
world. I don't remember what install disk I used though (the kernel is
pmac, processor type for custom kernel (6xx/7xx/74xx/8260), CUDA based
mac in the device drivers.
As far as I managed to find out there is no way to install an
independent boot loader (will be happy to know otherwise).
You will have to keep BootX around in order to startup linux afterwords
form the drive. I kept a 500M partition for mac os 8 behind but only
311M are used (could probably trim it down farther if I knew anything
about mac os).
To install new kernels I just drop them in "System Folder/Linux Kernels/"
I think there are a few variations though on the beige G3 so it may be
a bit different.
> stable/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/images-1.44/boot-floppy-hfs.img was
> booted however after about 20 seconds the penguin in the middle of the screen
> gets covered by a red X and the floppy is no longer being read.
>
> I then tried the BootX installer (?) from
> stable/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/BootX_1.2.2.sit and was able to
> boot into the installer from MacOS (8.5).
>
> I have 10 years+ of Linux experience and 6+ years Debian experience but I am
> confused and scared when it comes to this MAC :-( I have no idea how to
> partition the disk, if I wipe out MacOS will I have any way of booting into
> the installer again? Now I am unsure how to proceed.
>
> Is d-i for oldworld ppc ready yet, should I be looking at d-i rather than the
> woody installer? Certainly from a hardware detection point of view I prefer
> the idea of using d-i.
>
> I'm not finding the woody install manual too enlightening at the moment but
> maybe it's the late hour. Any advice appreciated.
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> Fraser Campbell <fraser@wehave.net> http://www.wehave.net/
> Georgetown, Ontario, Canada Debian GNU/Linux
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