On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 04:18:28AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To Whom it May Concern, > > Attached is a short companion guide to the Installation Guide for Debian for > the PowerPC, dealing specifically with installing it on a Power Mac 4400/200, > and allowing the system to boot to Debian from the hard disk. > > It probably requires editing, but, if you think it would be useful, feel free > to use all or part of it. > > thank you for your time, > David
> Addition to the Debain for PowerPC Installion Guide: > How to Make a Power Mac 4400 Bootable to Debain from the HDD. > > Contents: > 0)About this Guide > 1)What you need > 2)Prepping your system > 3)Installing Debian > 4)Booting from the HDD > 5)Configuring XF86 > 6)Notes > 7)Contact > > Section 0-About This Guide > > This is a Installation guide ONLY for Debian Linux on a Power Macintosh > 4400/200. This is NOT expected to work for any other Macintoshes. If it does, > great, but I offer no assurences. This set up also assumes you want to boot > to Debian Linux, and ONLY Debian linux. If this isn't the case, this isn't > the guide for you. > > This Guide DOES NOT require Mac OS to be installed on the target system. > > This is not a step-by-step guide, its an addition to the Debian of PowerPC > Installation Guide, and is ment to be used with, not instead of, that guide. > > > Section 1-What you need > You will need > 4 1.44 Diskettes. You need on these disks: > The Mac OS 8.1 disk tools disk. This can obtained from apple's FTP. > The Unaltered Debian HFS boot disk. It can be obtained from Debian's > FTP.(See notes) > The Root.bin image from Debian's FTP. (See Notes) > A second Debian HFS bootdisk altered for standard boot. (See Notes) > Debian Install CD > > Section 2-Prepping your system > Not much to do here. No existing OS is required. > Power down your 4400. > > Section 3-Installing Debian > Insert your Unaltered HFS boot disk into the disk drive, and power up. > The system will read your disk (it will take a few minutes), and request your > root.bin image. Insert your Root.bin disk, and proceed. > Configure your Keyboard, etc. > When you get to the harddrive partioning, you'll want (atleast) 3 partions. > a 5 MB HFS (apple) partion at the begining of the drive. (see notes) > Your Debian (linux) Partion > Your swap partion > > More about the apple partion later in section 5. > > Continue installing debian until you come to "Making the system bootable". > Skip this and making a boot floppy. Quik Doesn't work (If you tried quik, > your system isn't dead. Consult the debian install for how to zap your PROM) > and the CD doesn't do boot floppies. Just power down, and get your 8.1 Disk > Tools disk. > > Section 4-Booting from the HDD > Ok, now this requires a little bit of Bait and switch. > You can skip this section for now and just use your Altered HFS bootdisk and > come back to this step later. > > 1)Boot off your 8.1 Disk Tools disk. This will take you a very striped down > Mac OS. > 2)Copy the files from the 8.1 Disk Tools disk to your hard drive. > 3)Shut down from the special menu (to clear the floppy drive). > 4)Boot up with the floppy disk drive empty. You'll boot into the 8.1 disk > tools files stored on the harddrive (you'll get a warning about this, but > ignore it) > 5)Insert your altered HFS boot disk into the drive, and copy the files onto > hard disk, into an empty folder. > 6)Eject the Debian boot disk, and insert the 8.1 disk tools disk, and reboot. > 7)You'll run the disk tools off the Floppy again. Delete the files you copied > from the Disk Tools disk before. > 8)Move the files you copied from the debian boot out of the folder. > 9) Shut down from the special menu. > 10)Boot up with the floppy empty. You boot right into Debian. Your drive is > now bootable. > > See notes. > > Section 5-Configuring XFree86 > > In all likely hood, your screen goes blank and flashes dark for a few > seconds, and dumps you at a login prompt. This is normal. > Login as root. > Run XF86config. > > You'll want a lot of default options. > For your mouse, select PS/2 (option 4) and to emulate 3 buttons. > > When you are asked to see the list of video cards, say yes. You'll want the > ATI Mach 64 (number 27). > > Just default the rest of the options. > > type in "shutdown -r now" with out the "'s. Your system will reboot, and you > should boot into X/KDE/GNOME (which ever you selected). > > Section 6-NOTES: > Section 1- > The Debian Installation guide is very helpful for "burning" these disk > images. The root.bin you download is a an image, you can't just copy it to a > disk, same with HFS. You have use a disk copy utility, several of which are > listed in the install guide. > > The installation guide also offers several ways to alter the HFS boot disk. I > used RegEdit. > > Section 3- > You could leave 5 megs or so of "raw" space at the begining of the drive, and > use the drive setup utility on the 8.1 disk tools floppy to convert it. > > Section 4- > The shell game is needed because when booting off the Disk Tools Floppy, it > wouldn't allow the floppy to ejected. If you know away arround this, feel > free to use it to just copy the altered HFS boot files to the harddrive. And > drop me a line at the contact information. > > > Section 7-Contact > If you have problems or questions, I probably won't be much help, but you can > reach me at: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, David! I don't think I've seen this possibility mentioned anywhere, nor thought of it myself either. For some reason I thought miBoot wouldn't work from the hard drive. Basically, you copy the floppy contents into a bootable HFS partition on the disk. One could also do this from Linux, even in the installer environment, I think: dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/hda2 bs=1024 I'll play around with it a bit on my machines, and then add the idea in the manual as an option. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net
