On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 20:11:21 -0500, Derrik Pates composed: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:22:56PM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: > > Well, that 'cannot' is really 'should not' since Linux doesn't need > > them at all, but the MacOS does. If you boot this thing using miboot > > or BootX, you still need the drivers, but if you use quik or yaboot, > > then they're extraneous unless you want the MacOS to be able to use > > the disk. > He's got a 7100. It's a NuBus system. It doesn't have OpenFirmware, and > won't work with either quik or yaboot. MKLinux Booter and BootX both > start from MacOS, and miBoot loads by way of the MacOS ROM that's burned > into chips on the logic board.
oops, hadn't realised it was a 7*1*00, heh. i'm not sure, but don't they boot like the m68k b0xen? i.e., couldn't he use a small macos partition and use penguin19 to boot from? or can he use something a little more modern, like bootx? simon > Personally, I think this poor guy's gonna have a hell of a time. > Debian's something of a "hardcore" distro to begin with - and he's > installing it on a system that Debian doesn't officially support. > -- > Derrik Pates > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* |UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are.| *-----------------------------------------------------------------* | ,''`. http://www.debian.org/ | http://www.nuit.ca/ | | : :' : Debian GNU/Linux | http://simonraven.nuit.ca/ | | `. `' | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `- | PGP key: 3744 810B 50F5 187E | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
