On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 10:32:24PM -0700, Chris Baker wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a powercenter 132 (essentially a 7200), acting as my > firewall/mailserver, which I finally upgraded to potato from linuxppc > R5. I had no end of problems getting openfirmware booting working > back when I installed R4 on that machine (the keyboard and video > drivers don't work in OF), and so, when BootX came out, I swore off > playing around with OF. These days, that machine is running linux > 24/7 (it was up 150 days when I rebooted to install potato--and that's > only because we lost power on new year's eve--it would have been over > a year otherwise), and I'd like to get rid of macos altogether. But > first, a few questions: > > 1. OF booting became unsupported under linuxppc after R4. Are there > any good technical reasons for this, or can I assume that if I get > it to work with my hardware, then it will work for woody and > whatever else lies ahead?
They just didn't want to support it, I gather. > 2. How do you do clean installs of debian without BootX? I.e. given > a kernel and ramdisk (and whatever else), how do I do the initial > boot on a linux only system. I *have* checked the install docs > but they didn't cover this the last time I checked. The install docs need a lot of updating. Once again, I call for volunteers - I can edit such a thing, and gladly will, but I don't have time to create it! On an oldworld machine, you can just use the boot-hfs-image.bin (or something like that) - it's a Mac-bootable floppy image. On a newworld, the easiest way is to use a bootable CD; they'll be more widely available soon. > Also, if anyone has any pointers for getting of-booting working on > this type of machine, I'd appreciate it. The current Quik package should do just fine. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
