Hi, We should like to run debian (or any other free UNIX) on an old mac called on the front cover a Power Macintosh 4400/200.
We dd'd the woody hfs floppy image to a floppy and were apparently able to boot, but the monitor was out of sync so we just saw a fuzzy penguin and grey stuff which may or may not have been text. How do we stop the monitor going out of sync? Is there a bootloader command line or something anywhere? There seems to be some problem with the rootfs floppy we're using because the kernel behaves like kernels that can't find root (i.e. reboot after a few minutes). We booted into yellowdog once from BootX and activating the "force video driver" option (or something like that IIRC) would make the video go in sync. Note that the monitor is just some random small mac monitor called an Apple Performa Plus and probably doesn't go with the case. We have access to any number of monitors so if you have any model to recommend super duper. We can't boot into yellowdog anymore because the install fscked up as it was making the root fs, razing our MacOS to the ground. Is there any small Mac system disk with a CD driver so we can bootstrap yellowdog from CD again? We have a PCI ethernet card in the box and plenty of access to boxes running real operating systems, but very few with floppy drives. We also have a random blue iMac running MacOS and some other iMacs we can use (also blue FWIW and some with floppies). Can burn CD-Rs but the 4400 doesn't seem to like to boot off of them. Please helllp we are clueless newbies -- http://john.fremlin.de