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

  • From: "Stephen E. Bodnar" <sbodnar@xxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 08:31:33 -0800

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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