Re: Debian Sarge on oldworld Powermac?

2004-06-15 Thread Ralf Schlatterbeck
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?

2004-06-12 Thread Ralf Schlatterbeck
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: +43/2243/26465/23

Debian Sarge on oldworld Powermac?

2004-06-11 Thread Ralf Schlatterbeck
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.