Re: Oldworld PPC install
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 10:20:20AM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> Hi,
>
Forgot, also try the debian-ppc mail group, most of the power mac
expertise is lurking around there.
> 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.
>
> 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.
> --
> Fraser Campbell <fraser@wehave.net> http://www.wehave.net/
> Georgetown, Ontario, Canada Debian GNU/Linux
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