Dana-Mania! On Jan 6, 2013, at 4:04 PM, Scott Holder wrote:
> Well, I could say it was not too much trouble, but temper that by saying that > even when I was really into it, I had 5+ years of Linux experience. Manual > partitioning, command line, hacking around in config files, etc was/is all > pretty second nature to me. > > The general idea was I had two HDs - one I had a pretty much full Mac OS > 7.5.5 install running on with complete ethernet drivers, video setup, web > browsers, etc etc. This made it trivial to download the Linux files directly. > From there it was pretty straightforward booting the install disk images and > letting it do its thing on the other drive. There are/were pretty > straightforward instructions for it. There are new methods of doing it since > the original install instructions were published way back when, mostly > involving debootstrap and premade kernels. > > My setup is pretty old, one of these days I'll get around to updating it. The > main thing to remember is that in general the only thing platform-specific is > the kernel. Once it's booting on a Mac, the userspace is mostly the same > between Mac, Atari, Amiga, etc. This makes it a lot easier to take work from > a more active platform and use it on a Mac. > > I wonder whatever happened to whats-her-name Dana that was trying to boot Mac > OS X in a 68k compile of PearPC. IIRC she ran into some endian issues since > she was sharing the boot image over a network but I never heard the end > result. Never got around to trying to myself. > > Scott > -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
