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

  • From: "Andrew" <celloandy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 15:30:15 -0800

I've run Gentoo on PPC machines.  They provide bootdisks, and have a couple
of ppc kernels available (ppc-sources and benh-sources, I think).  I didn't
boot directly from the Gentoo CD, though... I installed a clean MacOS, then
used BootX to boot the Gentoo CD.  Also, you just need to use mac-fdisk to
see partitions, instead of regular fdisk.
Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen E. Bodnar" <sbodnar@xxxxxxx>
To: <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 8:31 AM
Subject: [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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