On (29/03/04 18:39), Ron Murray wrote: > I've been having lots of problems getting woody installed on a Power > Mac G3 minitower (300MHz processor, 128M RAM). Being an oldworld box, I > can't boot it from CD. I tried installing from floppies, but that tended > to mostly crash just after checking disk partitions on initial kernel > load. I eventually downloaded the boot files and saved them on one of > the two hard drives in an HFS partition, and managed to get the > installer running using BootX. > > The machine locks up during the installer process. Sometimes it > crashes early in the piece, once it almost finished loading the base > system when it crashed, but crash it always does. It's hard to tell > exactly what causes the crash, but it seems to be complete (machine no > longer responds to pings, keyboard, anything except the power switch). > > Suggestions welcome. I've done lots of Debian installs on i386 boxes > in the last eight years, and my main work machine is Debian on Alpha, so > I do have a fair bit of Debian experience. But this is my first attempt > at using Linux on a Mac, and I've never really been a Mac person, so > there's probably a lot I don't understand about them. > > I'd try installing sarge (all my other boxes run sarge), but after > reading the last couple of months worth of archives from this list, I > think it might be best to start off simple (unless someone has a good > HOWTO somewhere). If you search the archives there has been sporadic discussion recently. The general view is that you need BootX which boots Linux:
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