Hello,
as promise just a few words explainig how I install debian 2.2r2 on a
powerbook G4
this is a short resume on how to install Debian and MacOs on a
Titanium powerbook G4
first note that the kernel 2.2.18pre21 on the debian install CD, dosn't
allow to boot the Ti
1) boot on the MacOS CD, use the Apple Hard disk tools to
create the partition scheme you want on the drive drive
eg: X Go for linux (free-space)
X Go for the MacOS system (HFS+)
X Go for the MacOS apps (HFS+)
X Go for the docs (HFS+)
X Mo/Go for a sharing MacOS <-> Linux partition (HFS)
2) install MacOS
3) grab a linux kernel 2.2.18, ramdisk, yaboot, yaboot.conf on the
shared partition
4) get the SystemDisk tool from apple
<URL:ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/macosxserver/utilities/>
with this one note the number of the partition or the shared
partition eg: XX
5) edit the yaboot.conf
eg:
init-message = "\nDebian PPC\nhit <TAB> for boot options\n\n"
timeout = 50
default = install
image=hd:XX,vmlinux-2.2.18
label=install
initrd=hd:XX,ramdisk.image.gz
initrd-size=8192
append="video=ofonly"
6) reboot the Mac under OF (command-option-o-f)
at boot-prompt type
boot hd:XX,yaboot
7) the debian installer is launched
install debian as usual on the free-space partition previously
created
DON'T forget to create a Apple_Bootstrap partition of small size, in
first place see <URL:http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/> mac-fdisk
section
note the /dev/hdaNN number of the Apple_Bootstrap partition
note the /dev/hdaYY number of your / partition
eg if you do the way described here, it should be /dev/hda11
(/dev/hda1 to 9 are Mac drivers and /dev/hda10 your bootstrap
partition)
initialise swap
format the linux partitions
mount a previously initialized partition, the shared one.
install base
configure drivers
configure base
DON'T do "disk bootable" instead go to the console, copy the
linux-kernel-2.2.18 to your /boot partition, name it vmlinux-2.2.18
8) reboot the computer under MacOS
depending on the number of linux partition you've created, the
previous XX number of the shared partition has changed, use
SystemDisk again to get the new one, eg now it's ZZ
9) edit once again the yaboot.conf: modify the old XX to ZZ
and insert a linux boot section as following
init-message = "\nDebian PPC\nhit <TAB> for boot options\n\n"
timeout = 50
default = debian
image=hd:ZZ,vmlinux-2.2.18
label=install
initrd=hd:ZZ,ramdisk.image.gz
initrd-size=8192
append="video=ofonly"
image=hd:YY,/boot/vmlinux-2.2.18
label=debian
root=/dev/hdaYY
append="video=ofonly"
10) reboot under OF once again, at boot prompt
boot hd:ZZ, yaboot
11) this time the installed linux boot up
- answer the question
- set up /etc/apt/sources.list
- install what you want, I strongly suggest man first.... ;-))
- set up the /etc/yaboot.conf
eg:
# bootstrap partition
boot=/dev/hdaNN
device=hd:
delay=20
timeout=20
# the OF menu to use
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
# the booter to use
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
# enable boot form cdrom
enablecdboot
# default OS, linux of course
defaultos=linux
# linux boot options.
default=debian
image=hd:YY,/boot/vmlinux-2.2.18
label=debian
root=/dev/hdaYY
append="video=ofonly"
12) run mkofboot on /dev/hdaNN --filesystem hfs
that's all folks, dual boot Linux/MacOS is set
you just have to install what you want: X, compile a fitted kernel
for this machine, and so on ;-))
just a note, as I've read on list, eth drivers for the eth card of the
TiG4 are not so good.
Eric
--
l [e2fsck] a bien démarré, mais il m'a rendu la main aussitot en me
> disant "houlala, c'est pas beau à voir votre truc, je préfèrerai que
> vous teniez vous même la tronçonneuse" (traduction libre)
NC in Guide du linuxien pervers : "Bien configurer sa tronçonneuse."
