Hi,
Can I install Debian on a PowerMac without having a version of MacOS installed?
I read somewhere about "open firmware" being
a solution to this problem; is it so?
Thanks for any info and cheers,
Manuel Arriaga
Hi Philip(pe? :-),
Thanks for your reply!
>I think the answer to your question is yes, and that's exactly what I'm
>trying to do myself right now.
>Let's keep in touch!
I am glad to know that I am not the only one! But I still don't have a
powermac! :-( I have an old LC630 I wanted to run
lin
Hi Adam,
I have the option to buy either a 7300 or a 7600; so these are "safe" choices,
right?
I have been "digging" around the "linux on ppc" sites and it seems that I can
use either quik or miboot...
Cheers,
Manuel
>> Can I install Debian on a PowerMac without having a version of 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
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
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