you can try it with this web: http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~schmidtm/apple/powerbook.en.php
It is for powerbook 12 but I think it is similar Good luck El dom, 22-06-2003 a las 15:21, Brendan J Simon escribió: > I've just purchased a powerbook 17". I've tried (unsuccessfully) > installing debian using various howtos on the Net. I managed to get the > machine to boot and run the installer using the recent "boot-floppies" > in the woody distro, but the installer had problems finding any hard > disks. I decided to extract the kernel from the 2.4.20 deb package and > give that a go. It works better in that the hard disk is now > recognisable and I have managed to partition it and initialise the > partitions using mke2fs and mkswap :) > > Unfortunately the installer still doesn't recognise any partitions to > mount, neither swap nor linux partitions. One thing I noticed which was > different to previous installs I've performed on earlier model > powerbooks and powermacs is that the hard disk is /dev/hdc and the > dvd/cd is /dev/hda. I always have experienced it being the other way > around. Could this be a problem during manufactur of the powerbook? > ie. hard disk plugged into secondary master and dvd/cd plugged into > primary master IDE interface by mistake or is this the way all new > powerbooks come? Maybe it's something to do with booting dvds??? > Anyway, I assume the new installer doesn't search for mount partitions > on /dev/hdc, and if so, needs to be fixed (especially if my setup is the > norm). > > Any ideas where to go from here??? > > For some reason I can't nfs mount an intel box to copy my backup fs to > my new partitions. wget fails too. I think this is because the .tgz > file is 3.1GB and the busybox version of wget is not so capable. I have > a macosx partition so I should be able to copy the file to it and > hopefully I might be able to find a ext2/3 driver for macos so I can > unarchive the .tgz files to my linux partition. Any one know of such a > driver ??? > > Please CC to me as well as the list. > Many thanks, > Brendan Simon. > > > >
