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

  • From: Nels Tomlinson <nelstomlinson@xxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 18:14:20 -0800

Thanks for the info.  Yes, the whole problem was that I didn't know what 
I was doing.

 Actually, last night (well, early this morning) I found that hard disk 
toolkit and got the drives partitioned, and 7.6 installed.  I never 
could get 7.5 to boot.  I wonder if that's why my only option in the 
hard drive toolkit was to make one big MacOS partition?  Anyway, I have 
7.6 installed and can fiddle with that a bit until I get Debian or 
Gentoo onboard.  I've never used MacOS at all before, so I'm a little 
curious about it.  

Here's another ``I don't know what I'm doing'' question:  How do I 
uncompress (or whatever is appropriate) files like Bootvars.sit.hqx and 
Quick...sit.hqx?  These are some utilities which are supposed to aid in 
getting Linux set up.  The Mac says that it can't find an appropriate 
translator, or some such.  I'm guessing that what I need is probably 
part of the installation, but I don't know what it is or how to use it.

Yes, Gentoo not only has an installation CD for PPC, but it is supposed 
to have a live filesystem on it.  It probably does, too, but I can't 
vouch for it.  One of the things I learned at the NetBSD link that James 
sent me to (thanks, James!) is that this machine sends console messages 
to a tty by default, so that's probably why I couldn't see anything when 
it loaded up.  So, I'll probably not try to use openfirmware until I get 
a serial cable (null modem, DB9 on each end, right?)

Nels


Stephen E. Bodnar wrote:

>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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