Re: install onto a 7500

2002-07-20 Thread John S. J. Anderson
"Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmmm. Where did you get your CD image? >From one of the mirrors listed on linuxiso.org. > What files _are_ in there? Maybe in a subfolder (grep -r)? Nope, did a grep -r over the whole disk, and aside from md5sum and TRANS.TBL files, no boot-flopp

Re: install onto a 7500

2002-07-19 Thread Bruce A. Burdick, Jr.
>> OldWorlds can't boot from a Debian CD > > Why not? The 1999 and 2000 LinuxPPC CDs were bootable on OldWorld and > NewWorld boxes. Jeff Carr personally futzed with my Lombard PowerBook to get > it to boot at MacWorld SF 2000. Can Debian repurpose their work? Is the boot > code on the CD not GPL?

Re: install onto a 7500

2002-07-19 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 09:01:08PM -0500, Bruce A. Burdick, Jr. wrote: > > OldWorlds can't boot from a Debian CD > > Why not? The 1999 and 2000 LinuxPPC CDs were bootable on OldWorld and > NewWorld boxes. Jeff Carr personally futzed with my Lombard PowerBook to get > it to boot at MacWorld SF 2000

Re: install onto a 7500

2002-07-19 Thread Bruce A. Burdick, Jr.
> OldWorlds can't boot from a Debian CD Why not? The 1999 and 2000 LinuxPPC CDs were bootable on OldWorld and NewWorld boxes. Jeff Carr personally futzed with my Lombard PowerBook to get it to boot at MacWorld SF 2000. Can Debian repurpose their work? Is the boot code on the CD not GPL? Not compl

Re: install onto a 7500

2002-07-19 Thread John S. J. Anderson
"Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Instead of rescue.bin, you need hfs-boot-floppy.img. It's all in the manual. Yeah, thanks, I figured that out via trial and error. In case anybody ends up in the same situation I was in (I didn't have a full MacOS to use that image from), you can copy

Re: install onto a 7500

2002-07-19 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 07:45:43PM -0400, John S. J. Anderson wrote: > > I have a bastard 7500 (it's running a 166 604e card out of an 8600) > that I'm trying to get Debian installed on. This machine has run > PowerPC Linux and SUSE in the past, so I know it's possible, and I've > been running Deb

install onto a 7500

2002-07-19 Thread John S. J. Anderson
I have a bastard 7500 (it's running a 166 604e card out of an 8600) that I'm trying to get Debian installed on. This machine has run PowerPC Linux and SUSE in the past, so I know it's possible, and I've been running Debian on x86s for several years now, so I'm generally familiar with Debian instal