On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 09:03:53PM +0200 or thereabouts, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > Hi, > > Am Donnerstag, den 19.08.2004, 21:33 -0400 schrieb S.D.A.: > > 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. > > Beige G3 firmware is kind of broken. Some people claim to have managed > to boot from it - I didn't manage in days, like most users. There is a > small extension program for Mac OS 9 to boot linux. Sorry, forgot the > name... You can boot Mac OS 9, but nearly immediately it hands over to > linux.
Aha! You're probably referring to BootX? My brother, doesn't have MacOS 9 on that box, so looks like we'll be installing it. Thanks! > This is not pretty, but IMHO the best way to handle linux on a beige G3. > Interesting enough this problem does not occur on *older* machines, I am > also running some 7200 and 7600. Newer machines aren't affected anyway, > since they are "newworld". Interesting. -- Steve +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Saturday Aug 21 2004 05:16:01 PM EDT +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I'm thinking about DIGITAL READ-OUT systems and computer-generated IMAGE FORMATIONS ...
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