"Erik C.J. Laan" wrote: > > Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 09:27:48AM +0100, Sacred Eagle wrote: > > > Hello all! > > > I just received an old Mac PowerBook 520c and I wonder if it is at all > > > possible to install Debian on it? > > > It doesn't have a CD device so have to make a floppy install. I've > > > downloaded all the Debian (Potato) images (floppy) for PowerPC but I want > > > to know if there is someone here who has done this before.Any > > > advice/warnings before I make a go for it? > > > > According to my ancient Apple Spec chart, the 520c is a 68LC040 with a > > maximum of 36MB memory and a 240MB or 320MB hard disk (does that take > > you back or what? -- you could pay extra for an optional 80MB extra!). > > > > Anyway, potato would be a better choice for this machine, woody may be > > too memory and disk intensive. But you need the m68k images, not > > powerpc. You will need to leave MacOS on the machine, because m68k > > can't boot on its own; so that means your hard drive will need to be > > shared between a minimal MacOS and a minimal Linux. You'll need at > > least 100MB for Linux, that's probably not enough for an X server > > though. > > > > I'm forwarding to debian-68k to see if anyone else has comments. > > Because of the forwarding I cannot find the mail-address of the original > author (Sacred Eagle), so I'm forwarding this to debian-powerpc too in > the hope that he'll receive it. > > Congrats with the machine. There are a few hurdles to overcome with > Powerbooks in general: > 1) The ADB (Apple Desktop Bus for keyboard and mouse) type of Powerbooks > will only work with 2.4.x kernels. Get yours from > linux-m68k.sourceforge.net. > 2) Linux/m68k has troubles with most 68LC040 processors Apple bought > from Motorola because there's a bug in the CPU which prevents > floating-point emulation from working. There have been some people on > the linux-mac68k mailing list who wanted to recompile the complete > potato base system with --msoft-float (?). I think one was called > Matthew Eis. Please ask at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 3) Because debian potato and woody only have 2.2 kernels you'll maybe > need to take a few extra steps. One I'm certain is manually installing > 2.4 modules. Don't know of any other. > > Please don't be discouraged: the kernel-hackers and others at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] would really love to hear how everything > comes along.
Forgot to mention one thing: Linux-mac68k has no floppy support so you'll have to copy everything to you MacOS disk or do a network install Hope this helps, Erik -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik C.J. Laan elaan at dds.nl --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
