Re: Old world mac

2004-08-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Rikard Borg wrote: > > Hi > > Rick Thomas Wrote: > > > > >Any one of these three bugs will render debian-installer unusable for > >anyone with anything but a "plain vanilla" hardware or networking > >environment who doesn't have help from a competant System > >Administrator, or have such skill

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-10 Thread Rick Thomas
Install MacOS-9. Then use the BootX boot-loader. (or 8.5 or 8.6, if 9 won't run on the S-900. I've never seen one of those, so I don't know what will run on it and what wont. I'm told that BootX even works with MacOS 7.5, if your machine can run it and you have a floppy drive to install it f

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:43:01AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > Install MacOS-9. Then use the BootX boot-loader. (or 8.5 or 8.6, > if 9 won't run on the S-900. I've never seen one of those, so I > don't know what will run on it and what wont. I'm told that BootX > even works with MacOS 7.5, if

Re: Old world mac

2004-08-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On Thursday, August 5, 2004, at 02:19 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Rikard Borg wrote: I'm one of those out there waiting with a 7200 box at home. Rikard Borg -- Hi Rikard, Did the work-around I sent you help any? Have you got that 7200 box working yet? Enjoy! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Old world mac boot floppies

2004-11-08 Thread Wade Berrier
Hi Malte, I found a message in the debian mailing lists about a 4400/200: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/03/msg05918.html You said that boot.img booted for you. How do you get this to boot? The only thing I've been able to boot on mine is the hfs-only image from woody. My install go

Re: Old world mac boot floppies

2004-11-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 09:19:12AM -0700, Wade Berrier wrote: > Hi Malte, > > I found a message in the debian mailing lists about a 4400/200: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/03/msg05918.html > > You said that boot.img booted for you. > > How do you get this to boot? The only thing

Re: Old world mac boot floppies

2004-11-08 Thread Wade Berrier
Thanks for the reply,. So how do I actually get the boot.img to boot? I've set up open firmware (version 2.0) to have the display as output and the keyboard as input, and auto-boot to false. But, I've tried what seems every combination of boot fd or boot floppy to no avail. I'll usually get bac

Re: Old world mac boot floppies

2004-11-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 12:01:38PM -0700, Wade Berrier wrote: > Thanks for the reply,. > > So how do I actually get the boot.img to boot? > > I've set up open firmware (version 2.0) to have the display as output > and the keyboard as input, and auto-boot to false. > > But, I've tried what seems

Re: Old world mac boot floppies

2004-11-08 Thread Malte Cornils
Hi Wade, On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 12:01:38PM -0700, Wade Berrier wrote: > I've set up open firmware (version 2.0) to have the display as output > and the keyboard as input, and auto-boot to false. > > But, I've tried what seems every combination of boot fd or boot floppy > to no avail. I'll usual

Re: Old world mac boot floppies

2004-11-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 12:25:06AM +0100, Malte Cornils wrote: > Hi Wade, > > On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 12:01:38PM -0700, Wade Berrier wrote: > > I've set up open firmware (version 2.0) to have the display as output > > and the keyboard as input, and auto-boot to false. > > > > But, I've tried what

Re: Old world mac boot floppies

2004-11-09 Thread Wade Berrier
Thanks for all the feedback I've gotten from y'all. Here's a quick log about my situation: First, started out as I installed woody from the boot-floppy-hfs.img, install went ok. On reboot, I get claim failed. I've tried all the settings from the quik quirks page without any success. (http://www

Re: Old world mac boot floppies

2004-11-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 01:45:35AM -0700, Wade Berrier wrote: > Thanks for all the feedback I've gotten from y'all. > > Here's a quick log about my situation: > > First, started out as I installed woody from the boot-floppy-hfs.img, > install went ok. On reboot, I get claim failed. > > I've tri

Re: Old world mac boot floppies

2004-11-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 9, 2004, at 3:45 AM, Wade Berrier wrote: One last thing I'm going to try is to replace the cmos battery. When I boot into the woody install, the time is set to 1956. I'll set it, and even still, the next reboot is 1956. I friend at work tipped me on this one. Maybe this will make it so

Re: Old world mac boot floppies

2004-11-10 Thread Wade Berrier
Thanks again for the help. I'm up and running. The CMOS battery fixed my boot problems, and I did have to use the quik "quirk" settings for my powerpc 6400 (load-base=10, output-device=ttya). I also was also able to boot the 2.4 debian installer floppies from daily builds. It's been an inte

Re: Old world mac boot floppies

2004-11-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 01:35:04PM -0700, Wade Berrier wrote: > Thanks again for the help. I'm up and running. The CMOS battery fixed > my boot problems, and I did have to use the quik "quirk" settings for my > powerpc 6400 (load-base=10, output-device=ttya). > > I also was also able to boot

Re: Old world mac boot floppies

2004-11-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 10, 2004, at 5:25 PM, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 01:35:04PM -0700, Wade Berrier wrote: I did have one idea: if you can boot a coff image from an hfs partition, couldn't you have an hfs /boot partition on the harddrive and boot directly from open firmware? If I understand

Bug#273306: installation-reports: installation report on old world mac ppc

2004-09-25 Thread simon raven
Package: installation-reports Version: daily (second week of september, 2004) Severity: normal Debian-installer-version: uname -a: never got there Date: second week of september, 2004 Method: how: via floppies Machine: powermac 7500 Processor: 604e Memory: 168 MB Root Device: scsi Root Size/part

Bug#273306: marked as done (installation-reports: installation report on old world mac ppc)

2010-09-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:57:40 + with message-id and subject line Closing old installation report #273306 has caused the Debian Bug report #273306, regarding installation-reports: installation report on old world mac ppc to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the