Kernel+Installer for hardisk boot on pb5300c
To whom it may concern,
I'm experimenting with running linux on a powerbook 5300c. While I know
that debian doesn't officially support this platform, i've found
experimental support at:
http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/
My machine currently has 56megs of ram and the factory 750mb hard drive.
What is the status of support for nubus powermacs? I plan on using a
pcmcia 10/100 ethernet adapter (The card is a 3com 3CCFE574BT which is
listed as supported by the pcmcia-cs project) and possibly a prism
802.11b card. I followed the first part of the instructions for
installing on the pb1400c:
(http://www.icedtrip.net/guides/woody_1400.txt )
I achived early success in booting the woody installer kernel with the
MkLinux booter and managed to partition the drive. However, i've hit a
snag. The author used a scsi drive to hold iso images from which to
install. That worked because that kernel supported scsi on the 1400. But
it doesn't support scsi on the 5300. The 2.4.27 nubus kernel, however,
does have scsi support, but this kernel doesn't have an installer image.
I'm wondering if someone could either:
a) make a 2.4.27 nubus kernel+{sarge | woody}-installer image
b) point me in the right direction for doing the above myself
c) offer some suggestion as to how i might otherwise install woody
or sarge
Powerbooks can operate in scsi-disk mode so I could potentially
force-feed
packages onto the drive. I have a working debian PC with a scsi
controller
but i'm not sure how to proceed.
I also have a working 9600 (running OS 8.6 -- and it has to stay that
way for reasons i don't wish to go into) One thing I haven't tried is
booting the sarge installer from that machine and installing onto the
laptop. Is this likely to work?
As related question if the kernel drivers for the ethernet card I plan
to use will work on a powermac? (experimental PCMCIA support has been added)
Thanks in advance,
Brandon Lewis
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pb5300 partial success report
I managed to install woody on a powerbook 5300c. I used the 2.4.27 nubus kernel available off the nubus-pmac site. Basically I put the laptop in scsi disc mode, and attached it to the scsi port of a pmac 9600. Then I booted the installer from the 9600 and specified the laptop as my target drive and then installed the base system. I booted linux with the 2.4.27 kernel on the PB5300 using the MkLinux booter. At first it came up in single user mode because the installer had used scsi device paths in /etc/fstab (it was installed using scsi disc mode, remember?) so I changed these to reflect the ata nature of the internal disk controller. PCMCIA support is partial. I was unable to get any of my ethernet cards to transmit, allthough cardmgr recognized and configured them if they were present at boot time. Cardmgr fails to recognize them properly if they are insterted after boot. "cardctl status" just reports 5v 16bit cards. So i'm guessing trex driver support is at fault here because it also gripes about certain commands not completing and not being able to adjust IO memory ranges. Maybe i'll download the source and try futzing around a bit. I'd paste the text of the error messages, but there's currently no easy way to get any of the information off the computer without going back to scsi disk mode. Also, 2.4.27 doesn't boot unless I specify nubus=off in the boot options. Otherwise it hangs just after printing something about adb. The sound speaker's click and then it just stops. Maybe sound support is at fault here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux-PPC, 802.11g, and B&W new world power mac, internal v.90 modems?
I have a PC with an 802.11b wifi card running debian linux. Currently it's supported by the madwifi project, using the atheros chipset. It also requires a PCI 2.2 compliant motherboard. Does the B&W g3 have a pci compliant motherboard? Where can I find information like this about other mac models? Also, is there any way to use drivers like madwifi with non-x86 hardware (possibly through emulators or has the proprietary core been ported yet?) Also, to what degree are the internal v.90 modems supported? What device do they usually show up as? --brandon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Building a Custom Kernel
Kernel sources from Debian are already patched. Just apt-get the source for the kernel version you want and those sources will be patched already. Does this include the nubus patch? --Brandon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
