On Apr 15 2002, Chris Tillman wrote:
> Right. You can't, unless you hook up another machine. It's sending
> and receiving over the modem port. Nice to hear it worked well in
> spite of that. The potato version does _not_ work so well, so I'd
> advise installing woody.
If another data point is wanted (perhaps for inclusion on the
manual), then I'd like to point out that I installed woody
maaaaany moons ago in a PowerMac 9500/180MP and it worked
well.
I had some problems to configure X and use an SMP kernel, but
from the changelogs, everything should work fine now.
As some additional details, the problem with X was that it
needed the explicit PCI bus indication of the video card on
PPC (not needed on x86) and that the PCI bus scanning wasn't
complete with a 2.2 kernel.
The problem with the kernels from Debian was that they
included the generic (not the PPC) RTC code and the kernels
thus installed just Oopsed on me.
Also, I can't for the life of me (even following the tricks on
NetBSD's homepage) use OpenFirmware on this PM9500, but it
works so easily with my new iBook2. Unfortunately, I don't
have a second computer to work as a serial terminal to issue
commands to quik.
When I currently have a new kernel with experimental features
that might crash the machine (and would require a reset of
OF), I put it on a miboot-enabled floppy, test it and if it
works well, just use it the usual way.
Of course, I learned this all the hard way (which is good,
since I remember all details now). :-)
[]s, Roger...
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