Benoit,
after two weeks of experimenting or so, I gave up. I run Debian now on a
UltraSPARC from SUN and the installation was a lot easier.
I think the only thing which really helps is to install MacOS and use the
other boot loader available (I can't remember its name). But I did not want to
> > > Sorry if I missed something, but why don't you just use BootX?
> >
> > Because not everyone wants to keep MacOS around, I assume.
>
> Sure, I'm one of those people. But if it's between not having macos
> around or not using the machine at all?
I just wanted to recycle a mac we have here
> > I was only wondering, because the i386 does not have a reservered sda1.
>
> Yes, they use a rather idiot way IMHO (primary/extended, sounds like a
> serverly patched thing,
> 2G and now the 30 G limit...)
> I one word like in a hundred as we're used to say in french : I prefer ppc
> for muc
> > Guillaume didn't stop sending comments. The current state is that the 9500
> > can
> > read the quik bootstrap information from the HD but does not find a
> > suitable
> > kernel:
>
> [...]
>
> > > Thats cool ! it means that the 9500 can correctly read the quik
> > > bootstrap informatio
>
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 09:02:37PM -0700, Chris Baker wrote:
> > Rainer Dorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > If there are no obvious mistakes in this procedure, I think I should
> > > realize
> > > that
I missed to attach OF configuration of Guillaume. Here it is.
Rainer.
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Rainer Dorsch a *crit :
> Guillaume,
>
> I have seen in a post of you in deja news, that you are running linux on a max
> 9500. Are you using quik to boot it? If yes, could you send me t
hould realize
that Debian is simply not working on the 9500 from Apple (for me and order an
i386:-().
An installation cycle is now really qui(c)k, so it is not a big effort to
modify something in the procedure.
Thanks again for your help.
Rainer.
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 09:31:53PM +0200
It seems to me, that the first PowerPC image on ftp.fsn.hu in
/pub/CDROM-Image/debian-unofficial is broken. On CD 1, base2_2.tgz in the
discs-powerpc subdirectory extracts only with crc errors.
Rainer.
Thank you for the quick reply.
>
> No, it's not really a fancier name for BIOS. It does a tremendous
> amount more than a PC BIOS.
Having in mind the trouble it causes to me, I would prefer a simple BIOS ;-)
>
> > Make system rebootable from harddisk (no error message any more)
> >
> > Make
> I see you are having some success in booting linux on a mac, more than me
> anyway :-(
But so far, I can boot only in the installation. Not the system :-(
>
> My question, I have made the boot & root disks from the potato disks. I
> use the boot disk and I get a Mac with Tux icon followed by t
.
Thanks.
Rainer.
> On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 10:31:58PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> >
> > I used the latest boot floppies (2.2.15-2000-06-07) from potato
> > (boot-floppy-hfs.img and root.bin). I donwloaded drivers and base.tgz from
> > the
> > net (worked pe
and. There is documentation floating around about the process;
> someone with more free time needs to add it to the boot-floppies
> documentation.
>
> On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 07:15:08PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> >
> > I installed Debian for the PowerMac on a Po
I installed Debian for the PowerMac on a PowerMac 9500. After completing the
installation (dh_bootstrap), I wanted to make the system bootable directly
from the hard disk, but I learned Quik does not yet work for PowerMac. The I
wanted to make a boot floppy. But making boot floppies is also not
> > Nonetheless, both these things suggest that your boot disk and the BootX
> > Stuffit archive are corrupt.
>
> Or that Stuffit needs upgrading.
>
It is likely that stuffit needs upgrading (I will check the installed version
later on). Am I supposed to boot with the rescue disk from
/debia
in binary
mode).
So could anybody tell me how to boot Debian on my powermac (or tell me
where this is documented). I think this should also go into the
install instructions.
Thanks.
Rainer.
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