Installing Debian on a PowerPC 8500
Hi! I have a problem installing Debian in an "Old World Mac" Please, could you help me? :-) How do I get the openfirmware console in my PowerPC 8500? I tried the keys sequence alt-command-blah and It doesn't works. I only get a black screen. When I executed "Apple system disk" it told me "OpenFirmware" ->input: ttya output: ttya Do I need a serial terminal for operating openfirmware? :) Sorry for my ugly English. I will try to find some time this summer to ''refine'' it x-DD -- Carlos de la Cruz - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system. (By Linus Torvalds) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Debian on a PowerPC 8500
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 09:43:36PM +0100, Carlos de la Cruz wrote: > How do I get the openfirmware console in my PowerPC 8500? I tried the keys > sequence alt-command-blah and It doesn't works. I only get a black screen. > > When I executed "Apple system disk" it told me "OpenFirmware" ->input: ttya > output: ttya > Do I need a serial terminal for operating openfirmware? The short answer: yes, use a serial terminal. (Modem port, 38400, 8N1) I could be wrong on the port settings, since I haven't done this in ages. The long answer: you don't need a serial terminal if you change the settings of input and output. To use the internal video and an ADB keyboard, use the following settings. input: kbd output: /chaos/control The control driver is really buggy, and may sync to unusual resolutions and frequencies unless you have patched it, which is painful. Brad Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Debian on a PowerPC 8500
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 09:49:17PM +0200, silver wrote: > Hi , > i have woody installed on my 8500...started with potatoe... > > i just booted up with the boots floppies. > for booting debian later you have to use bootx from a hfs partition > then. Thanks a lot for your answer :-) but now, I have one more question... How do I boot from those floppies and how can I make them? I'm a PC user, and I started to play with macs recently :) Greets :-) > > should be documented in the install docs. > > greets > > On Freitag, Juli 19, 2002, at 10:43 Uhr, Carlos de la Cruz wrote: > > >Hi! I have a problem installing Debian in an "Old World Mac" > >Please, could you help me? :-) > > > >How do I get the openfirmware console in my PowerPC 8500? I tried the > >keys > >sequence alt-command-blah and It doesn't works. I only get a black > >screen. > > > >When I executed "Apple system disk" it told me "OpenFirmware" ->input: > >ttya > > output: ttya > >Do I need a serial terminal for operating openfirmware? > > > >:) Sorry for my ugly English. I will try to find some time this summer > >to ''refine'' it x-DD > > > > > >-- > > > > Carlos de la Cruz - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a > >lot > > of different places, just write a Unix operating system. > > > >(By Linus Torvalds) > > > > > > > >-- > >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- Carlos de la Cruz - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system. (By Linus Torvalds) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Debian on a PowerPC 8500
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 12:50:04PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 09:43:36PM +0100, Carlos de la Cruz wrote: > > How do I get the openfirmware console in my PowerPC 8500? I tried the keys > > sequence alt-command-blah and It doesn't works. I only get a black screen. > > > > When I executed "Apple system disk" it told me "OpenFirmware" ->input: ttya > > output: ttya > > Do I need a serial terminal for operating openfirmware? > > The short answer: yes, use a serial terminal. (Modem port, 38400, 8N1) > I could be wrong on the port settings, since I haven't done this in ages. > > The long answer: you don't need a serial terminal if you change the > settings of input and output. To use the internal video and an ADB > keyboard, use the following settings. > > input: kbd > output: /chaos/control How can I change those settings? I can't find any option in the apple's system disk for doing that. Greets and thanks a lot for your answer :-) > > The control driver is really buggy, and may sync to unusual resolutions > and frequencies unless you have patched it, which is painful. > > Brad Boyer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Carlos de la Cruz - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system. (By Linus Torvalds) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Debian on a PowerPC 8500
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 10:20:43PM +0100, Carlos de la Cruz wrote: > How can I change those settings? I can't find any option in the apple's > system disk for doing that. There is a MacOS program called "Boot Variables" that was distributed with several of the early Linux distributions for ppc Macs that can change about any OF setting you would be likely to need including input, output, and boot-device. I did a search online and found this URL: http://penguinppc.org/projects/quik/BootVars.sit.hqx Brad Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Debian on a PowerPC 8500
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 09:43:36PM +0100, Carlos de la Cruz wrote: > Hi! I have a problem installing Debian in an "Old World Mac" > Please, could you help me? :-) > > How do I get the openfirmware console in my PowerPC 8500? I tried the keys > sequence alt-command-blah and It doesn't works. I only get a black screen. > > When I executed "Apple system disk" it told me "OpenFirmware" ->input: ttya > output: ttya > Do I need a serial terminal for operating openfirmware? > > :) Sorry for my ugly English. I will try to find some time this summer > to ''refine'' it x-DD The floppy disk solution another poster mentioned is the easiest option. If you'll just take the time to read the manual, this stuff really is in there. I have a handy link for you in my .sig. -- *--v- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 v--* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | |Chris Tillman[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | ** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
