On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:26:10PM +0200, Bruno Waes wrote: > > From: "Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org> > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 2:23 PM > Subject: Re: new installation on 4400/200 > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:00:21AM +0200, Bruno Waes wrote: > >> so far i managed to install debian on i386, sparc and alpha, and now i > >> want to give powerpc a try ;-) > > >you will find that oldworld macs are a right pain in the ass to > >bootstrap without macos. if you keep macos around you can use bootx. > >preferablly use an older macos such as 8 something as 9 is more > >problematic with bootx. > > i now have the box right beside me, it has macos 7.5.3 loaded on its > single HD the bootx .sit file is on the cdrom but it is not recognized by > macos
You probably just need to download Stuffit Expander, which is freely available, just search for it using google or something. The .sit file is a stuffit archive. As far as what to do next, I would personally just use BootX. True, you'll have to leave a copy of MacOS on the machine, but for a firewall you probably don't need all your disk space. With BootX you don't need to mess with Open Firmware, which makes things pretty easy. I never installed Debian from scratch on my mac (since I installed LinuxPPC originally), so I don't know much about the install CD's, but I do know that BootX allows you to boot directly from MacOS into linux, either off the CD or off the hard drive, which is pretty handy. Good luck! -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
