Hello!
I installed Debian Woody to my PowerMac 7200/90 just yesterday. I booted
from boot-floppy, and then switched root-floppy to disk drive. After
that I complete normal network (http) install. Everything simple works
out of box... wow! Before that I tried several other distributions, but
none of them actually works for me. I have only 32mt memory, and those
graphical installers needs a way more.
I deleted all my partitions ( press "i" to initialize disk in fdisk)
during install, an I am using quik as bootloader. Only drawback is that
with quik it's not easy to deal with a dual-boot systems, but it's ok to
me since this is Linux-only machine. Quik doesn't need any special
boot-partitions, make only normal Linux-partitions you need.
Only real problem is that because that version of Open Firmware doesn't
drive display, I have never actually seen quik to boot, only blank
screen. After linux starts to boot everything is ok. I haven't figured
out yet how I can boot different kernels, ie how to use quik boot-menu
with my blank screen...
-jkarjanl
Hello all,
I've given up for the E20 IBM and reinstalled AiX on it. Let's wait for
next release of debian.
Anyway, I found another worthy computer : PowerMacintosh 7200/90. Does
anyone know how to install linux on it and if I really need that stupid
little MacOS partition on the disk.
Thanks for help in advance,
Jean-Francois
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