Brendan Simon wrote: > Harold G. Stevenson wrote: > > > > 2- any suggestions on installing and running debian? > Get a bootable CD if one exists. When I installed Debian there was no > CD available so I _HAD_ to install MacOs on a small partition (1GB), put > yaboot, the kernel from Ben H and the base2_2.tgz on the Mac partition, > then use Open Firmware to boot into Linux. A boot CD is the easiest way.
Don't forget firewire disc mode; it's quite convenient. The downside is that it requires a 6-6 pin firewire cable (not standard but still available), and another Apple firewire machine w/ the newest ROM running MacOS. AFAIK, Debian hasn't released a bootable cd for ppc yet (although I think you can still make your own); there do exist bootables from other distros, but then you have to go through the hassel of getting it setup and then reinstalling; although it may be easier than using MacOS. If you have access to a USB or internal zip, you could probably use the MacOS bootable cd to partition the drive, and then place the necessary files on the machine w/o actually installing MacOS..... HTH --Nelson Abramson
