Install MacOS-9. Then use the BootX boot-loader. (or 8.5 or 8.6,
if 9 won't run on the S-900. I've never seen one of those, so I
don't know what will run on it and what wont. I'm told that BootX
even works with MacOS 7.5, if your machine can run it and you have
a floppy drive to install it from.) You don't need much of MacOS
to do the trick -- 200 MB is more than enough. But, if you can
spare about 500MB to dedicate to MacOS, an "easy install" is a lot
simpler than going thru all the options at install time trying to
intuit whether you will need that feature...) One cute trick, if
you have a 100MB Zip drive, is to use the IoMega tools to make an
"emergency boot" Zip disk, which takes up less than 50 MB, even
after you add the BootX and Linux kernel/initrd files and a couple
of other useful tools. Once you have the emergency boot zip drive
in hand, you can copy it to a small (under 100 MB) HFS partition on
your hard drive, and have yourself the most feature-ful boot loader
that ever was.
Rick
On Tuesday, August 10, 2004, at 10:02 PM, Eric D. Hedekar wrote:
Any one of these three bugs will render debian-installer unusable for
anyone with anything but a "plain vanilla" hardware or networking
environment who doesn't have help from a competant System
Administrator, or have such skills personally. Since I'm the
only one
on this list who cares two figs about OldWorld PowerPC hardware,
and I
have UNIX SysAdmin experience going back 25 years (including some
pretty unusual hardware!), I guess it's not a show stopper... Still,
there *might* be some folks out there in the "real world" (TM), who
will be disappointed that they can't figure out how to install
the new
Debian release on their particular old Macintosh hardware. You never
know!
Hi, I never recieved your original e-mail, however I have a Umax
S-900 that
does not want to load the new installer. I have attempted to load
woody and
upgrade but I would rather do a fresh install and wipe the old
stuff clean.
Do you have any tips specific to this box? (I recieved the
response you gave
to the 7600 so if there's something there that I need to do, don't
bother to
retype it, just reference to it)
-Thanks.
Eric Hedekar
