[juneau-lug] Re: Stephen, a question about that PowerPC

There are no partitions on the drives, that's why they don't show up. 
You have to use the PPC version of Debian or Gentoo (I don't think 
Gentoo has a PPC BTW).

Boot from the 7.5.3 CD and somewhere on there is a folder called Hard 
Disk Toolkit. Run that. There are 2 hard drives, a 2 gb Micropolis 
and a 1 gb Fujitsu. Use the 2 gb Micropolis as the system drive as it 
is SCSI 0 which is what Macs like. Partition the main drive with a 
minimum Mac (Apple) partition and the rest an AUX (Apple unix) 
partition. The PowerPC actually will need a small Mac OS installed on 
the Mac partition, which in your case will just run the boot loader 
for linux. The other one can be a full AUX partition. It has to do 
with a hardware deal with "Old World" Macs, they have to initialize 
the hardware through Toolbox routines stored in a boot ROM.

James is pretty knowledgeable about this...I see he posted a reply...

Good luck!

Stephen

>Stephen, I remember that you said something about the hard drive on that
>Mac clone being wiped.  Is it actually damaged, or just blank and I
>don't know what I'm doing?
>
>I can boot from the MacOS 7.6 CD you gave me, but it can't find any
>drives to install on.   The machine doesn't seem to boot from the 7.5 CD
>nor from a Gentoo live CD I found,
>
>It seems to boot from a Debian boot floppy, but it never lights up 
>the monitor, so something isn't right.
>
>By the way, thanks for the new toy!
>
>Nels
>
>
>
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