Re: your daily build of powerpc floppies

otherwise the CMOS battery will be drained. BTW: I'm much more happy with an OF solution which is at least somewhat documented and which I do understand than with one where I have to boot some foreign operating system with which I'm not familiar at all. I'm leaning fairly

Bug#285436: Installation report Apple Powermac (OldWorld) 7600

This is the first time I was able to install an oldworld powermac with sarge, thanks for the good work! Ralf -- Ralf Schlatterbeck email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX: +43/2243/26465/23 info: /bin/report-hw: discover: ;;;MATSHITA;CD-ROM CR-8005A;/dev/scd0 info: /bin/report-hw: discover: ;;;Maxtor 6;Y200P0

Re: your daily build of powerpc floppies

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 10:39:01PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 09:38:46PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:56:50PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > BTW, did you try the ofonly boot floppy ? > > Yes for the rc2, No for

Re: your daily build of powerpc floppies

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:56:50PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:14:42PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 07:16:58PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > > What graphic card do you have on this box ? > > The

Re: your daily build of powerpc floppies

Thanks for the quick reply. On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 07:16:58PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 07:02:25PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote: > > I recently discovered your daily build of floppies. > > I can boot them on my oldworld 7600 powermac > > Wha

Re: Debian Sarge on oldworld Powermac?

er booted. Booting > > from a > > floppy nolonger works either. Any way I can boot from a floppy? Yes, I had the same issue with one of the machines which had some environment variables changed in the open firmware. cmd-opt-P-R fixed it (you will have to boot from floppy and re-

Re: Debian Sarge on oldworld Powermac?

MacOS is not an option. I want to donate the whole disk to Linux and I'm unsure about the licensing: I inherited these boxes with a MacOs 8.6 installed but I don't have any boot-disks. So I want a Linux-only solution... Ralf -- Ralf Schlatterbeck email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX: +43/2243/264

Debian Sarge on oldworld Powermac?

n firmware 1.0.5? - Anybody out there who has successfully booted Linux (even better, Debian) on oldworld powermac via network or CDROM? Also without Macos being installed? - Pointers to additional sources of information welcome. Please also reply to me personally, I'm not subscribed to the lists.