Thanks for everyone's emails and responses on this. After I checked out the http://www.penguinppc.org/ site per Evan's advice, I was able to understand the differnce between the various bootloaders, and once I understood what "open firmware" is, the installation documents (http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/installguide/) began to make alot more sense.
Also, glad I asked you folks about the firewire booting before hand. Luckily, the blue and white has an adeptec scsi card, and it looks like I will be able to boot external drives off of this (maybe I'm wrong?) I am probably going to get a firewire cdr-w for the B&W, which I would primarily be using under macOS, and I will definitely try to get it to work under debian, and let you know what happens. Samuel Rose "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley www.zerohour.net/paralleljournal ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christoph Ewering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>; "samuel rose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 11:45 AM Subject: Re: Debian PPC Installation > Hello Samuel! > > Ethan Benson schrieb: > > > > 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. > > AFAIK, no new-world Desktop-Mac with PCI-graphic (32bit 66MHz) supports > booting from firewire. So it is impossible for any OS to boot from an > external firewire-drive with every B&W G3 and G4 with PCI-graphic-card. > (the mainboards of these computers are more or less the same). I think > the hardware can do this, but as Ethan said, Apple has to update the > firmware for this boards. Maybe if hell freezes they will do it ;-) > > > > > 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. > > I´m running a 604/200 MP in a 7300 and at the moment I´m using miboot > (faked systemfolder) > > Last time the 7300 crashed with a 2.4.2 SMP and since then I was not > able to boot any more. The kernel jumps into debugger everytime I try to > boot. This happend during comipile of a new 2.4.6 SMP kernel and a doing > a copy of /usr/src/linux via nfs. > > Still had no time to try it again. :-( > > Bye, > Christoph > -- > Dipl. Ing. Christoph Ewering C & E Informationsdienste GbR > 0 52 54 80 68 66 oder 0173 566 266 1 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
