I got a lot of help a month ago installing it on a 7100/80 I didn't have any success, but that is only because I don't have a copy of MACOS I think I may be able to help. ___ Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. General George Catlett Marshall ----- Original Message ----- From: "dylan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nori Heikkinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "debian-powerpc" <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org> Cc: "Andrew Stout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:52 AM Subject: Re: installing Debian on an OldWorld PowerMac
> use bootx after the machine has been booted into the macos- there is plenty > of documentation available on how to do this. > > d > > on 03.3.11 11:13 PM, Nori Heikkinen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > a friend and i are trying to install debian on his old PowerBook G3 > > "Wall Street". having just stuck a CD into many x86s, i blithely > > assumed this would be similar. But not only is his CD drive kind of > > flaky, the OldWorld macs won't boot off an ISO image: > > > > OldWorld Powermacs will not boot a Debian CD, because OldWorld > > computers relied on a MacOSROM CD boot driver to be present on the > > CD, and a free-software version of this driver is not available. All > > OldWorld systems have floppy drives, so use the floppy drive to > > launch the installer, and then point the installer to the CD for the > > needed files. [1] > > > > contrary to the assertion above, his OldWorld system does *not* have a > > floppy. So, we've been trying to do it from Open Firmware, as > > described in the next paragraph of that same page: > > > > If your system doesn't boot directly from CD-ROM, you can still use > > the CD-ROM to install the system. On NewWorlds, you can also use an > > OpenFirmware command to boot from the CD-ROM manually. Follow the > > instructions in Booting NewWorld Macs from OpenFirmware, Section > > 5.4.3 for booting from the hard disk, except use the path to yaboot > > on the CD at the OF prompt, such as > > > > 0 > boot cd:,install\powermac\yaboot > > > > note that this is not a NewWorld. > > > > um .... we're lost here. we have no floppy, but we're not NewWorld, > > so we can't boot off CD but we can't use OF either? > > > > has anyone gotten Debian up and running on a WallStreet PowerBook? > > any pointers? > > > > thanks a lot! > > > > </nori> > > > > [1] > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-insta ll > > -cd > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
