On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 04:14:44PM -0500, samuel rose wrote: > I've got two machines. One is a PPC 7500 with an internal 1 Gb drive, > and an external 4 Gb scsi drive. I've also got a B&W G3 300mhz with a > 6Gb internal drive. > > On the Blue and White, I was hoping to buy external firewire drives to > boot from, while leaving mac OS 9.0 on the internal drive. Does Debian > PPC support firewire drives? Will the machine boot from a firewire > drive? IAnyone know where I can find some documentation on this?
no, the Linux kernel does not support Apple's IEEE1394 hardware yet. much less booting. i don't think that the version of OpenFirwmare in the blue G3s allows booting from firewire, ask apple for a firmware update. > On the PPC 7500, I would like to Install Debian on the 4Gb external > drive, and BSD on the 1 Gb internal drive, and no macOS at all. After > reading through the installation manual quite a few times, I am guessing > that the easiest way to install Debian onto the external drive is to > install a base macOS on a partition, and then install debian? I have use quik, it works on those machines you don't need macos. woody boot-floppies (cvs build at penguinppc.org/~eb/debian/powerpc/) should be able to setup OF on that machine to boot correctly. > been looking for some online documentation that is concise enough for me > to understand, as I have never installed debian on anything, and > previous experience with linux and bsd was on intel hardware. Any advice > on where to look for documentation? http://penguinppc.org/usr http://penguinppc.org/usr/quik http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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