Hi Ethan I tried that too... but I end up zapping the PRAM trice to have the old MacOS bootX combo in order to NOT see a black screen… PMac 7600/132MHz, i. e.
Gjermund On fredag 26. januar 2001 01:13, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 04:23:16PM +0000, Matthew Kirkwood wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've just acquired a cheap Mac (7200/90) for the purpose >> of running Debian. >> >> It seems to work OK, but only has a 700Mb disk which I >> very much doubt will be enough for both for both Debian >> and MacOS. So, it would appear that my choices are: >> >> * buy another disk, or >> * dump MacOS >> >> If at all possible, I'd prefer the latter. It would >> appear possible to boot from a floppy, but there does >> not appear to be a suitable disk image available. > >you can use quik to boot this machine, you need at least kernel 2.2.17 >or later though. the installer will install quik for you, but you >need to set the boot-device OpenFirmware variable in order for it to >be booted you can do that like so: > >nvsetenv boot-device "$(ofpath /dev/sda)0" > >just hit command F2 to get a second console and shell to run this >command after the `Make debian bootable from the hard disk' > >i friend of mine has been booting a 7200 via quik with no trace of >macos for some time now. only problem was 2.2.15 and 2.2.16 didn't >boot on it (this didn't affect all 7200's), that was solved in >2.2.17. > >when you partition the disk use the `i' command to create a clean >empty partition table without all the MacOS driver cruft. see my >partitioning doc at: >http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc/mac-fdisk-basics.txt > >you don't need a bootstrap partition on oldworld. > >-- >Ethan Benson >http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ >
