On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 04:01:59PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > Ron, > > I've done it (install woody on an OldWorld PowerMac) successfully. > Email me at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if you need help. > > You need BootX, as you have found out. You also need to make sure that > your MacOS partition is HFS, not HFS+, so that you can copy updated > kernels to it while running Linux. (Or you need a ZIP drive formatted > as HFS to use as intermediate storage between Linux and MacOS.) > > Sarge on OldWorld machines is not ready for prime time yet. The problem > is with the installer, not the code it installs. You may be able to get > to sarge by installing woody and doing "apt-get upgrade". I' haven't > tried it myself.
That is,i believe, a little exagerated. The only point missing is the building of the miboot boot floppy. The rest of debian installer should work just fine, thanks to the great work of Jeremie Koenig on this. Friendly, Sven Luther
