Ron, I've done it (install woody on an OldWorld PowerMac) successfully. Email me at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if you need help.
You need BootX, as you have found out. You also need to make sure that your MacOS partition is HFS, not HFS+, so that you can copy updated kernels to it while running Linux. (Or you need a ZIP drive formatted as HFS to use as intermediate storage between Linux and MacOS.) Sarge on OldWorld machines is not ready for prime time yet. The problem is with the installer, not the code it installs. You may be able to get to sarge by installing woody and doing "apt-get upgrade". I' haven't tried it myself. Enjoy! Rick Thomas Ron Murray wrote: > > I've been having lots of problems getting woody installed on a Power > Mac G3 minitower (300MHz processor, 128M RAM). Being an oldworld box, I > can't boot it from CD. I tried installing from floppies, but that tended > to mostly crash just after checking disk partitions on initial kernel > load. I eventually downloaded the boot files and saved them on one of > the two hard drives in an HFS partition, and managed to get the > installer running using BootX. > > The machine locks up during the installer process. Sometimes it > crashes early in the piece, once it almost finished loading the base > system when it crashed, but crash it always does. It's hard to tell > exactly what causes the crash, but it seems to be complete (machine no > longer responds to pings, keyboard, anything except the power switch). > > Suggestions welcome. I've done lots of Debian installs on i386 boxes > in the last eight years, and my main work machine is Debian on Alpha, so > I do have a fair bit of Debian experience. But this is my first attempt > at using Linux on a Mac, and I've never really been a Mac person, so > there's probably a lot I don't understand about them. > > I'd try installing sarge (all my other boxes run sarge), but after > reading the last couple of months worth of archives from this list, I > think it might be best to start off simple (unless someone has a good > HOWTO somewhere). > > Thanks, > > .....Ron > > -- > Ron Murray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > http://www.rjmx.net/~ron > GPG Public Key Fingerprint: F2C1 FC47 5EF7 0317 133C D66B 8ADA A3C4 > D86C 74DE > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
