Re: old world power pc with just debian?

2002-06-29 Thread mdfranz
Yes, linux-ppc definitely boots (with yaboot???) on 7500. That is why I was thinking it might be possible to burn a bootable for oldworlds. - mdf > Not quite sure about that ... I think the old "Linuxppc" distribution > came with a CD which was bootable on my 8500 (I think the was the 1999 > r

Re: old world power pc with just debian?

2002-06-29 Thread mdfranz
A while back I had good luck first installing potato on a 7500 and then booting with a SuSE 2.4.12 coff boot disk and than upgrading to potato by modifying the sources list. This same technique didn't work on an SuperMac c500. I have not been able to get the woody completely installed from the

C500 boot problems (need working vmlinux.coff for Supermac)

2002-06-08 Thread mdfranz
Hi, The standard first phase of the install on Supermac c500 goes fine, but I'm having difficulty booting off the floppy to continue the rest of the install due to normal old-world issues. On a 7500 where I ran into this problem, I stole a 2.4.12 suse vmlinux.coff and (after setting proper nvra