On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 02:46:56PM +0100, Bertram Bourdrez wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:22:43AM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 10:48, Bertram Bourdrez wrote: > > > I have some problems booting my beige G3. It currently runs MacOS 9, which > > > fails to recognise the RealTek 8139 I've put into it (I can't use the > > > onboard NIC as my hub only understands 100 Mbit). So I tried booting off a > > > floppy, and failed miserably. Sometimes the boot process just ignores the > > > floppy, at other times it ejects it. Using OpenFirmware to boot the floppy > > > results in similar failures. Anyone any idea how to get a network-less G3 > > > running? > > > > IIRC you wont be able to boot from floppy, or CD. This is the price we > > Beige G3 users pay for having old hardware :/ As another respondant > > mentioned, you will need to use BootX. You install this off the Debian > > CD into MacOS then use it to boot off the CD and you can begin your > > Debian installation. > > > > Unless you want to do some messy hacking, I recommend keeping MacOS, > > preferrably on a seperate disk or on a partition >= 100M and using > > BootX to load Debian on boot. > > Ah, thanks. I still have a few questions remaining... will I need to > download the entire Debian CD or can I get away with getting some files into > MacOS through sneakernet? Second, my first intent was to dual-boot OS X with > Debian, is this somehow feasible or do I have to keep OS 9 around? I'm still > somewhat unclear on the boot-through-BootX thing. Ideally I'd like to > eliminate the need for OS 9 entirely.
I don't know if you can use BootX from OSX. At least, I haven't heard of anyone who's done that. If you have an exchange partition for data going between OS's, it would be best to make it HFS. Also, I'm not sure but I believe OSX depends on OS9 for its ability to run pre-OSX apps; you might be giving that up. Also, although sometimes it's challenging, you can have a primitive dual-boot capability using quik once you've installed Linux. If that works, you could safely lose BootX. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
