On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 01:04:46PM -0400 or thereabouts, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 09:33:37PM -0400, S.D.A. wrote: > > | Not the original poster, so please excuse me jumping in here. > | > | I'm going to attempt installing Sarge on my brother's G3 beige (old > | world), this weekend. Were you able to boot directly from the cd, or > | did you need to boot from floppy? Any pointers welcome -- I'm in the > | process of reading the Debian Mac install instructions, but pointers > | always welcome. > > From what I've read, oldworld systems can't boot from cds.
That's what I feared.
> I'm not a mac expert, though. I've only installed on two G4s (well, I
> think the first was a G4; it was newworld at any rate). The first
> time was my first experience with a mac and was a proof-of-concept
> installation that was wiped out shortly afterwards (~6 months ago).
Yeah Linix on anything Mac, prior to new world architecture, seems to be a "pain
in the arse" I'm doing this simply so my brother can have a decent "Office" like
app, without needing to use MickeySoft software. He's presently using MacOS
10.1.5 on it. Gawd it's eye candy bloatware. I'd really like to have him running
icewm or xfce on it. It should fly compared to Apple's Quartz GUI.
> My recommendation is to read a lot of documentation on-line
> (particularly if you are not familiar with Apple hardware and its
> disk partitioning and booting organization). Also, use the sarge rc1
> installer. This worked really well for me this time around.
I had grabbed the new installer, tried to start the install tonight, but (as you
indicated), the Mac wouldn't boot from the CD. None of the instructions I've
read so far, mentioned anything 'bout a boot floppy for Mac. Oh well, time for
more research.
One would think that some Debian Mac hobbyist, would have written up a 'how
to' for installing on "Old World" Macs -- Or perhaps, I just haven't looked hard
enough...
--
Steve
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Saturday Aug 21 2004 12:41:01 AM EDT
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QOTD:
"He's on the same bus, but he's sure as hell got a different
ticket."
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