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

  • From: Nels Tomlinson <nelstomlinson@xxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 00:00:31 -0800

Thanks, James,

It looks as if it were mostly me.  The drives seem to be OK, I just had 
to look in the utilities folder to find the ``hard drive tool kit''. 
 It's been claiming to be formatting for an hour, and I think I'll pull 
the plug and start over.  It seems hung.

I'll check out that netbsd link, thanks.

Nels

James Zuelow wrote:

>On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 21:46:24 -0800
>"Nels Tomlinson" <nelstomlinson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>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.
>>
>>    
>>
>PowerMacs from that era are often very picky about what they boot & how they 
>do it.  NetBSD has a lot of information on those boxes that might be helpful.  
>There's a compatibility chart here:
>
>--link--
>http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html
>--link--
>
>Cheers,
>
>James
>
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