Re: Booting your PowerMac (from the HD, without MacOS)

>From the Debian archive, of course.o On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 09:38:28PM +, Manuel Arriaga wrote: > Hi Dan, > > >> 1- quik, which the "faq-o-matic" calls "dead", but according >>to some > >> works perfectly well with recent kernels; > > > >That's fine, we call the "faq-o-matic" dead in retu

Re: Booting your PowerMac (from the HD, without MacOS)

Hi Dan, >> 1- quik, which the "faq-o-matic" calls "dead", but according >>to some works >> perfectly well with recent kernels; > >That's fine, we call the "faq-o-matic" dead in return. I've fixed >quik >fairly recently. That's good news; can you tell me where I can download it from? I believe

Re: Booting your PowerMac (from the HD, without MacOS)

On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 08:45:19PM +, Manuel Arriaga wrote: > 1- quik, which the "faq-o-matic" calls "dead", but according to some > works perfectly well with recent kernels; That's fine, we call the "faq-o-matic" dead in return. I've fixed quik fairly recently. > 2- miboot, written by the a

RE: Booting your PowerMac (from the HD, without MacOS)

Hi Matt, I have been asking around the same question myself since I decided to buy a cheap oldworld PowerMac to run Debian on it. As far as I can tell, our only options (to but Linux without MacOS on a "oldworld" machine) are: 1- quik, which the "faq-o-matic" calls "dead", but according to

RE: Booting your PowerMac (from the HD, without MacOS)

> I just wanted to make sure you were aware of the information in > the appendices of LinuxPPC's User's Guide. I didn't mean to > suggest that their way of doing things was ideal (or even > desirable, although I use BootX myself as we only have the one > Mac, and there just isn't a replacement for

Re: Booting your PowerMac (from the HD, without MacOS)

"MR" == Matt Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matt, I just wanted to make sure you were aware of the information in the appendices of LinuxPPC's User's Guide. I didn't mean to suggest that their way of doing things was ideal (or even desirable, although I use BootX myself as we only have the

RE: Booting your PowerMac (from the HD, without MacOS)

> Matt, > > I strongly recommend you get the LinuxPPC User's Manual, available > as a PDF file at > . > The people writing that manual (especially Wesley Joe, although > I'm not sure if he's still working on it) have gathered up a lot > o

Re: Booting your PowerMac (from the HD, without MacOS)

"MR" == Matt Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matt, I strongly recommend you get the LinuxPPC User's Manual, available as a PDF file at . The people writing that manual (especially Wesley Joe, although I'm not sure if he's still wor

Re: Booting your PowerMac (from the HD, without MacOS)

* Matt Reynolds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [000630 13:04]: > Ok, after going through the archives of this list, and abusing google quite > a bit, it seems as if the process of getting a Power PC Mac to boot is not > only difficult, but not very well documented, at least for oldworld style > macs, which is

Re: Booting your PowerMac (from the HD, without MacOS)

"Matt Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...nice summary of OF boot issues deleted...] > Personal questions: > >From what I understand about OF, at least the broken flavors, you *must* > connect to the damnable mac comm ports. Is this right? Does someone have > the pin-out of the mac comm p