On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 04:53:05PM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 01:34:56PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > I have gotten a IIvx but witout any OS on it. The Mac has 40 MB > > HD and I think 8 MB of memory... and unfortunately no NIC and CD.
To install or boot m68k debian, you need MacOS. You can download a floppy-size system from Apple's site. > > I do not know, how to install Debian on it... > > Please can anyone point me to the right install manual ore > > something like this. > > > > Which vwesion should I install ??? hamm, slink, potato, woody ? > > Here's an install guide for potato: > > http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/docs/debian-2.2-mac68k-install.php AFAIK, the potato installer works, and woody too. But you may need to add nolangchooser to your boot parameters when booting the woody installer, if your box doesn't support framebuffer. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/install For potato, substitute potato for stable. > I think that's the latest that the installer is known to work. You > should be able to update it to woody in any case, although I'm > pretty sure I haven't tried it myself yet. > > > In summary, I have all mirrors local from buzz to slink complette > > and potato and woody the i386. > > > > I like to use a bigger harddisk on it, Please can anyone tell me > > which the maximum size is... and wether there is a special mac-HD ? > > I don't think there is a strict maximum size. The old filesystem in HFS understands no more than 2G and no more than 32768 files/folders. -- *----------------------------------------------------------------* | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To HAVE, GIVE all TO all (ACIM) | *----------------------------------------------------------------*