On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 10:20:20AM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote: > Hi, >
Forgot, also try the debian-ppc mail group, most of the power mac expertise is lurking around there. > I've recently come into possession of a Power Macintosh G3 in beige case. I > understand this to be oldworld mac. It has a 6GB IDE disk, a 4.3 GB SCSI > disk and 320 MB RAM. > > stable/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/images-1.44/boot-floppy-hfs.img was > booted however after about 20 seconds the penguin in the middle of the screen > gets covered by a red X and the floppy is no longer being read. > > I then tried the BootX installer (?) from > stable/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/BootX_1.2.2.sit and was able to > boot into the installer from MacOS (8.5). > > I have 10 years+ of Linux experience and 6+ years Debian experience but I am > confused and scared when it comes to this MAC :-( I have no idea how to > partition the disk, if I wipe out MacOS will I have any way of booting into > the installer again? Now I am unsure how to proceed. > > Is d-i for oldworld ppc ready yet, should I be looking at d-i rather than the > woody installer? Certainly from a hardware detection point of view I prefer > the idea of using d-i. > > I'm not finding the woody install manual too enlightening at the moment but > maybe it's the late hour. Any advice appreciated. > -- > Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.wehave.net/ > Georgetown, Ontario, Canada Debian GNU/Linux > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]