-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jerome Le Saux wrote: > > The old power mac floppy driver doesn't work in the 2.6 kernel series. > I've been trying to find the time to help fix it. In the meantime, if > you can keep a small Mac OS partition around - you can use BootX plus > kernel plus a ramdisk with an installer to do a complete system install > ... You should not have to touch or use the floppy drive for this, if > you are willing to keep Mac OS around ... > > cheers > vinai > > > Finally I succed in installing my debian on my OldWorld. > I used bootx ;).
I succeded in installing Ubuntu with bootx and I had to copy vmlinux and initrd.img on the MacOS9 partition at the end of the installation. I re-tryied the floppies but still did not work. I have 8 old G3, I'll try the Debian installer on one of those... but with bootx, not with quik. Cheers, - -- .''`. : :' :rnaud `. `' `- Java Trap: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEHoL04vzFZu62tMIRAuXYAJ9yzr5zTay6fNkIXz/wY0WuXrQ0/ACfbbem 1u/PFcRC6N3nPhdefC91ghk= =GlgN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
