Re: Debian Installer beta2 working on an OldWorld PowerMac-6500/225

2004-01-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:37:56AM +0100, Jeremie Koenig wrote: Hello Rick, I'm trying to get debian-installer working well on OldWorld systems. In order to achieve this, we need to : - have miBoot in Debian (for the boot floppy), - have a quik-installer udeb, as well as an

Re: Debian Installer beta2 working on an OldWorld PowerMac-6500/225

2004-01-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:15:20AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: Hardware: PowerMac 6500/225 with 128MB of RAM and a 6GB SCSI disk partitioned as 2.5GB for MacOS, 3.0 GB for Linux root (an all-in-one filesystem) and 500 MB for Linux swap. It also has a SCSI CD-RW drive and a floppy drive.

Re: Debian Installer beta2 working on an OldWorld PowerMac-6500/225

2004-01-22 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks! Sven, I've subscribed to the debian-boot list so I can listen in to the discussion. (Who know? Maybe even participate a bit!) BootX compatibility is fairly important to me because I've got some really old hardware with fairly broken Open Firmware. (PowerMac 6500, and Beige G3). Quik

Re: Debian Installer beta2 working on an OldWorld PowerMac-6500/225

2004-01-22 Thread Jeremie Koenig
Hello Rick, I'm trying to get debian-installer working well on OldWorld systems. In order to achieve this, we need to : - have miBoot in Debian (for the boot floppy), - have a quik-installer udeb, as well as an openfirmware-configurator one, - it seems a miboot/bootx-installer