On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 06:38:09PM +0200, Christian Lynbech on satellite wrote: > However, besides missing the nice warm feel of a debian system, YDL is > not suitable for the software in question, since that requires glibc > 2.0 while YDL, like most other modern linuxes, comes with glib 2.1 (or > is 2.2, but not compatible), and my attempts at fixing that situation > has so far failed miserably. > > The recommended linux is LinuxPPC-R4 (or some MkLinux variant), but I > really want to try out Debian, but I have a hard getting the darned > installation program going.
Requires glibc 2.0? Are you sure? If so, you should not even be trying to make this run - glibc 2.0 never really existed on PowerPC, it was a halfbaked port at best. Only 2.1 and soon 2.2 are really an option. R4 and MkLinux were notoriously incompatible with everything else. > I have the disk partitioned and set up, and the contents of > disks-powerpc on the second partition, but since the G4 has no floppy > disk I am a little lost on how to get the installation going. > > I tried burning a CD with the boot-...-hfs.img, but I cannot get the > Mac to boot form that, if that was the intention. No, that only works on machines with floppy drives :) > I also tried BootX (which seems like the best option), and this also > boots into linux with the kernel supplied, but the boot hangs after > the recognition of the drives (hda/hdc). As someone else added, BootX does not support G4s terribly well (I believe it is a problem with the new MacOS ROM files). > I am missing some kernel options in the BootX configuration? Should > there be more files than the ramdisk image present somewhere for the > installation program to get going? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. I seem to so close, and that is > really frustrating :-) Well, if you have a debian mirror handy, it is not too difficult to make a powerpc-bootable Debian install CD. The images are not available publicly yet (don't really have a place to put them - I'm working on that) but if you need I can probably find a way to get you the image. Otherwise, yaboot on a zip disk works wonders. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
