Re: Installing Debian on a PowerPC 8500

2002-07-19 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 09:43:36PM +0100, Carlos de la Cruz wrote: > Hi! I have a problem installing Debian in an "Old World Mac" > Please, could you help me? :-) > > How do I get the openfirmware console in my PowerPC 8500? I tried the keys > sequence alt-command-blah and It doesn't works. I only

Re: Installing Debian on a PowerPC 8500

2002-07-19 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 10:20:43PM +0100, Carlos de la Cruz wrote: > How can I change those settings? I can't find any option in the apple's > system disk for doing that. There is a MacOS program called "Boot Variables" that was distributed with several of the early Linux distributions for ppc Mac

Re: Installing Debian on a PowerPC 8500

2002-07-19 Thread Carlos de la Cruz
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 12:50:04PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 09:43:36PM +0100, Carlos de la Cruz wrote: > > How do I get the openfirmware console in my PowerPC 8500? I tried the keys > > sequence alt-command-blah and It doesn't works. I only get a black screen. > > > > Whe

Re: Installing Debian on a PowerPC 8500

2002-07-19 Thread Carlos de la Cruz
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 09:49:17PM +0200, silver wrote: > Hi , > i have woody installed on my 8500...started with potatoe... > > i just booted up with the boots floppies. > for booting debian later you have to use bootx from a hfs partition > then. Thanks a lot for your answer :-) but now, I hav

Re: Installing Debian on a PowerPC 8500

2002-07-19 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 09:43:36PM +0100, Carlos de la Cruz wrote: > How do I get the openfirmware console in my PowerPC 8500? I tried the keys > sequence alt-command-blah and It doesn't works. I only get a black screen. > > When I executed "Apple system disk" it told me "OpenFirmware" ->input: tt

Installing Debian on a PowerPC 8500

2002-07-19 Thread Carlos de la Cruz
Hi! I have a problem installing Debian in an "Old World Mac" Please, could you help me? :-) How do I get the openfirmware console in my PowerPC 8500? I tried the keys sequence alt-command-blah and It doesn't works. I only get a black screen. When I executed "Apple system disk" it told me "OpenFir