[juneau-lug] Re: PowerMac installs
- From: Stephen <sbodnar@xxxxxxx>
- To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 16:04:34 -0900
Well, getting the bootloader to work without MacOS IS the
tricky part. Any tips on this would be great to hear...hope
you can post them the hardware page.
Folks are just dumping G3's on the internet. Problem is
shipping would be at least double what you can get the box
for! I can just see somebody building a Beowulf cluster of
PowerMacs...
Stephen
>On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Stephen wrote:
>
>> Sounds pretty interesting. I wonder if James could post the basic
>> steps so all could see.
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>
>It will eventually go to the hardware page.
>
>The process is described well on Debian's web page. The PowerPC CDs are
>not bootable on old world Macs, but the floppy images on the CD are.
>
>The tricky part is getting the bootloader (quik) to work. My success has
>ranged from just having it work right the first time (on a 7600) to having
>to tweak both open firmware and quik itself (on the All-in-one). Since
>the details depend on how the disk is partitioned and the open firmware
>revision, I don't know that I could do a better job than Debian does of
>documenting it.
>
>Cheers,
>
>James
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