Oldworld PPC install
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.
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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