Re: Trying to use a 8500

[Stew Benedict]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Miguel Beccari wrote:

 I have a 250Mhz 8500 series powerPC.
 It as got very old 2x cdrom (with caddy)
 It has got no floppy.
 It has got a build in ehternet, and a 3com (I think).
 
 I am unable to boot from cdrom.
 No way, no way, no way to boot :(
 
 So I copied the BootX on the desktop and launched the BootX app.
 
 The installer begins and I have to select from a cdrom installation or a 
 ftp, hard disk etc etc.
 
 no modules are right for my old cdrom, my built in ethernet and so on...
 

Not booting from the CD is normal on OldWorld - that's why BootX is
provided.  I don't have access to any 8500's but I can tell you what
modules are used on the 7600:

SCSI:  mesh
Ethernet: mace

mac53c94 is also used for SCSI on some older machines.   I doubt the
integrated NIC is 3com, but I suppose anything is possible.  

Stew Benedict

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Re: Trying to use a 8500

[Miguel Beccari]

 Not booting from the CD is normal on OldWorld - that's why BootX is
 provided.  I don't have access to any 8500's but I can tell you what
 modules are used on the 7600:


I am old with linux but on x86 only (lilo, grub, award bios etc), so
I have to understand some things...

for example: should I leave a Mac (with the MacOS) partition to have BottX
working ?

 SCSI:  mesh
 Ethernet: mace

 mac53c94 is also used for SCSI on some older machines.   I doubt the
 integrated NIC is 3com, but I suppose anything is possible.


Theese are useful informations.

The last question is: if I put the hybrid burned ppc-8.2 cdrom on my linux
box (x86) i can mount and read with no problems all; but if I put the cdrom
in the old sony (on the Mac) the system say the cd have to be formatted.

Why ?



Miguel Beccari