On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 04:41:55PM -0500, Ron Murray wrote: > 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.
Try the oldwolrd build by Jeremie on : http://sprite.fr.eu.org/d-i-oldworld/floppy/ They are from march 25 though, and i am trying to get the needed miboot stuff free enough to get into contrib at least, so the last piece of it can be built. Friendly, Sven Luther
