On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:16:32PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The difficulty with the 7200, and maybe the 7300, is that OpenFirmware > > doesn't drive the screen, so if you want to muck around in there, > > you have to hook up a tty to the modem port. > > Thereis lies a whole nother bunch of fun. I have a Mac modem cable, came > with a box of junk, and I have a PC null-modem cable. The two connect, > and with Linux running at both ends I can type back and forth at myself > until I become bored with it. > > However, O-F talks the the peecee, but doesn't listen. > > Quik also talks to the peecee and doesn't listen.
Do you hae the terminal software set for 38400 baud? That's OF's native rate AFAIK. Also, check that the NVRAM output-device is also set to ttya (usually both input-device and output-device default to that). > Since I wrote previously, I've booted the Woody bootfloppies and had a > fiddle with nvsetenv, and I set the system to boot from the internal > disk. Nothing happened that I could see, but I happened to be wired up > with minicom listening at the peecee and here's what it said: > RESETing to change Configuration! > no bootable HFS partition Have you actually run the Make Hard Disk Bootable menu item? That writes a boot block on the disk (partition '0') which starts quik. If you're getting the boot: prompt, then that's done properly. If this message is coming from quik, re-check your quik.conf to be sure you've properly specified a root partition. But it doesn't sound like a quik message, because quik would be looking for ext2, not hfs. > > > > > Can I make a bootable CD for them without preserving macos? > > > > Bootable CDs are not possible using only free software. We don't have > > bootable CDs in the distribution for OldWorlds. OTOH, a CD with the > > MacOS boot drivers is bootable no matter what remains on the hard > > disk. (But, if there are no HFS partitions, it wouldn't be able to do > > much anyway.) > > So long as it's legal, I don't care how I create bootable CDs. Is there > something I should read? I believe I read something about it in the mkisofs or cdrecord documentation. You copy the code from an existing bootable MacOS CD, IIRC. Legality is not my area. > How do I tell whether a disk has firmware I should keep? You wouldn't be erasing firmware, just the Apple disk driver partitions. If you won't have MacOS, you won't need them at all. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net
