>> I'm not an expert on powerpc machines but can you boot on CD ? >> from the OF perhaps ? (there is something on this in the linux ppc archives) > > no bootable CDs don't work on oldworld machines. (well the LinuxPPC > 2000 supposedly boots them but LinuxPPC is too broken for words IMNSHO) > Yeah, the LinuxPPC 2000 CD boots great on an old-world powermac, using what looks to me like miBoot... but Debian is so much nicer.
>> If so the image from the official site is fine for start. >> The information from the thread on installing iMac DVD is helpfull also. > > you are fortunate and have newworld hardware, its openfirmware is FAR > less broken then the oldworld OF (such as that in the 7200) > >> With this I was able to boot my linux box. Thanks one more time for those >> who help :-) > > newworlds are quite a bit less painful to bootstrap then oldworld (so > long as you create the fscking bootstrap partition correctly) > > -- > Ethan Benson > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ >
