Greetings,
I am trying to get the latest stable release of Debian PPC installed
on an old world Mac. I have been following the Debian GNU/Linux
Installation Guide
(http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/index.html.en) and in
it there is mention of a boot-floppy-hfs.img file
(http://www.debi
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 01:14:59PM -0400, Scott MacCallum wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am trying to get the latest stable release of Debian PPC installed
> on an old world Mac. I have been following the Debian GNU/Linux
> Installation Guide
> (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/index.html.
2008/4/16, Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> But, as I said in the beginning, my knowledge may well be outdated.
> Perhaps others on this list have more recent experiences of installing
> (and running) oldworld macs.
>
Probably not. My experiences are very similar to yours. I'm writing
this
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Hans Ekbrand
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 01:14:59PM -0400, Scott MacCallum wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I am trying to get the latest stable release of Debian PPC installed
> > on an old world Mac. I have been following the Debian GNU
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:38:39AM -0400, Scott MacCallum wrote:
[...]
> Hans,
>
> Thank you very much for the information! I am sure this will save me
> considerable time and frustration. The computer I am trying to get
> Debian installed on is a PPC 5400/200
> (http://www.everymac.com/systems/
I once installed Debian Sarge (a bit newer than Woody) on a similar
machine, 6400/180, and was quite happy with it. It had an IMS TT
graphics card and a USB2 card, and those worked too. The IMS card
needed some special depth settings for colors to work in X. The kernel
was probably v. 2.4.18. The o
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 07:15:28PM +0300, Risto Suominen wrote:
> I once installed Debian Sarge (a bit newer than Woody) on a similar
> machine, 6400/180, and was quite happy with it. It had an IMS TT
> graphics card and a USB2 card, and those worked too. The IMS card
> needed some special depth se
2008/4/17, Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Sarge had 2.6.8 (and some 2.4 which I don't remeber), the kernel
> versions you mention implies that you installed woody.
>
You are probably right. I wish I could remember how I did it. At least
now I have kernels 2.2.20-pmac and 2.4.27 (self-compi
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