I had a working Woody up and running with an ide drive (Quadra 630). I just used the 2.2 kernel. You don't really need the 2.4 kernel. I used the fdisk program with Linux to format the drive. And I also tried formatting the ide first with an i386 box. Which also worked. The only catch was I used an external scsi to bootstrap the system and I kept getting this annoying message from the MacOS saying I had an unrecognized drive that needed to be initialized everytime I had to reboot. Or course, I ignored the message. What was nice on these systems is that the hard drive access seemed to faster than the scsi drives.
I guess you could use the MacOS cd to boot the system and partition the drive. You'll have to find a utility that will format the IDE drive with different partitions for Mac. Or just do it with an i386 box and then put it back on your Mac system. Use fdisk, or better cfdisk with i386 Linux. Make your partitions: 1 40mb for MacOS . The rest of the drive for Linux / , or extra partitions for /usr, /root , /home or whatever. But then you need to boot back into your mac again and set up the system. You probably need the network boot disk available from apple's download.info.apple.com http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/Eng lish-North_American/Macintosh/Utilities/Network_Access_Disk_7.5.sea.bin You'll probably also find the the hard drive utilities you need to get you going in the same general area. I get the impression you want to boot with your ide drive into MacOS? This is not an easy task. But I believe it can be done. (1) You,ll have to repartition your hard drive probably by starting with a floppy boot , or CD boot and then use a floppy with the necessary software to partition into multiple Mac partitions on the IDE drive. (2). Use the Network Install Disk or 7.xx whatever to put a basic MacOS on the first Mac partition. Just format the first partition and copy the system folder from the Network Install Disk onto your first IDE partition. Give your self enough room for the macinstall.tgz and a base.tgz whatever. I'd go for around 40 MB. Once you've booted into Linux, then you can go for using fdisk (which is really a symlink to macfdisk) to partition only your Linux partitions. This should get you going. I believe your ide drive should should up as /dev/hda. So ............ fdisk /dev/hda should get you started. Any donations for this free advice can be sent to me. Just email me for further details on my mailing address. Heh, heh. :) Hank -----Original Message----- From: Brad Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Marijn Vriens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-68k@lists.debian.org <debian-68k@lists.debian.org> Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 6:30 PM Subject: Re: Compiling kernel. >On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 03:29:25PM -0300, Marijn Vriens wrote: >> Unfortunately I don't think I can turn-off ADB support, since I do >> need to use the keyboard occacionally. Is there something wrong with >> 2.4.20 that doesn't allow it to compile for 68k? >> >> Does anybody have working 2.4.x packages available that would work on >> a mac m68040 that boots from IDE? > >There are still some significant problems with 2.4.x on 68k Macs. Noone >has had the time to get it running on all the models that 2.2.x supported. >You can try the kernels (and source tree) in the Sourceforge project. > >http://www.sf.net/projects/linux-mac68k > >There is a precompiled 2.4 kernel available for download, and the source >should all be in CVS. I'm pretty sure that some of the 68k stuff hasn't >gotten into the official kernel.org tree yet. > > Brad Boyer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
