At Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:30:25 +0200, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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
Thanks for the help, folks. Sven, do you have the URL for the sarge installer? Given that woody hangs when I try to install, I think sarge might be worth trying. It does look like I have a lot to learn with these things, though. And I thought alphas were hard! For one thing, I don't seem to be able to get into Open Firmware on bootup, even when I press cmd-option-o-f like the book says. Should I? Of course, this machine may be a special case since I'm reduced to using the PCI video card, since the on-board video adaptor failed long ago. It has worked well with MacOS, though. Thanks again, .....Ron -- Ron Murray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.rjmx.net/~ron GPG Public Key Fingerprint: F2C1 FC47 5EF7 0317 133C D66B 8ADA A3C4 D86C 74DE
