Booting your PowerMac (from the HD, without MacOS)

2000-06-30 Thread Matt Reynolds
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 what I have. So, as a fairly new Debian-x86 and, hopefully

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

2000-06-30 Thread Matt Reynolds
> 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)

2000-06-30 Thread Matt Reynolds
> 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: QUIK on the 7200

2000-07-09 Thread Matt Reynolds
> -Original Message- > From: Kevin Puetz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 2:34 PM > To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: QUIK on the 7200 > > I would also like to mention that OF-booting becomes significantly more > practical (ie, reliable) on oldwor