Hi, Thank you very much for the help. I'll try Debian Woody. Let's see if I can do it. Thank you again, Pedro
On 10/25/05, Marcel Pierson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I asked a similar question and received 0 helps from this group, i know what > you are feeling. > My friend, try with DEBIAN "WOODY", search internet for powerpc linuxppc, > nubus and others (Macintosh linux), you will find a wonderful friend of > LINUX that want to help you. > You must find a booter to MAC (I use nubus), you also must find a > specialized Kernel, but i recomend that you first search for your model and > the linux kernel-distribution you must use. > Marcel. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pedro Perez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PowerBooks" <powerbooks@mail.maclaunch.com> > Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 8:52 PM > Subject: Re: Powerbook 5300 boot order > > > > Thank you very much for the information. > > Yes, I hear the floppy spinning during start up but it ejects the disk > > as soon as it realize it is on the drive. I don't see any icon with an > > X during the process. > > Some Linux distributions say that they have the necessary drivers. > > I'll give it a try. Letś see what happens. > > Thank you again, > > Pedro > > > > On 10/25/05, Doc Holliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Yes, it is possible to boot from a floppy - I haven't done it in a long > >> time, but it is possible. The Mac automatically looks at the floppy disk > >> drive, if there is no system on the hard disk drive and no CD with a > >> system on it. Does the floppy drive mechanism spin [You should be able > >> to hear it spin] during start up? Does an icon of a floppy disk with an > >> X in the middle come on the screen? If so, you might check to make sure > >> that you have everything you need on the boot floppy, the floppy icon > >> with an X in it means there is no bootable system available to start the > >> computer. > >> > >> If you boot from the floppy, it probably won't have the Ethernet drivers > >> for your PCMCIA card on it, so I doubt you would be able to do a network > >> install. A bootable floppy may, or may not, have the correct drivers for > >> whatever CD-ROM drive you would use to to install Linux, if you decide > >> not to do a network install. You might be able to add the drivers for > >> both devices to your bootable floppy, if there is enough space on the > >> disk and they are compatible with the system software on the floppy. > >> > >> I would get a CD - internal or external - and boot the machine from the > >> Linux CD that way, (if the Linux CD will do that)... > >> > >> Apple is very jealous of its ROMs, they can't be accessed or hacked as > >> easily as the ones on a PC. You wouldn't need to change the BIOS to > >> check the floppy disk drive during start up, it already does that. > >> > >> Can you boot from the > >> > >> Pedro Perez wrote: > >> > >> >Hello > >> >I have just bought a used powerbook 5300 and I know almost nothing > >> >about Macs, although I like them. The computer works fine, has a > >> >working floppy drive and an ethernet card (Xircom CEM56-100). I would > >> >like to install Linux on it. I might try a network instalation but I > >> >have to boot from the floppy first (I don't have a CD drive). > >> >I built a bootable floppy but the computer doesn't try to boot from it > >> >when I use it. Is there any possibility that I could change the boot > >> >order? Is it possible to access the BIOS? 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