Re: Install on a PowerMacintosh 7200/90

2002-04-17 Thread Rogério Brito
On Apr 16 2002, Janne Karjanlahti wrote: > Somebody mentioned keeping backup-kernel on floppy disk. How can I > do this? With ybin? RTFM? ;-) Well, what I do is: I get a copy of

Re: Install on a PowerMacintosh 7200/90

2002-04-17 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:48:05PM +0300, Janne Karjanlahti wrote: > Hello! > > >>Only real problem is that because that version of Open Firmware doesn't > >>drive display, I have never actually seen quik to boot, only blank > >>screen. After linux starts to boot everything is ok. I haven't figure

Re: Install on a PowerMacintosh 7200/90

2002-04-17 Thread Janne Karjanlahti
Hello! I installed potato on my mac 7200, but ... Please, don't install potato, use Woody. I think there is a bug in the potato's quik installer. Quik doesn't follow symlinks, and I think Potato writes faulty quik.conf. However I think it's possibly to use Potato on PowerMac 7200, but after

Re: Install on a PowerMacintosh 7200/90

2002-04-17 Thread Jean-Francois Gobin
Hello all, I installed potato on my mac 7200, but ... At the installation, quik seems to flash something, that I can't read (too fast). And I can't boot directly from the HD. I initialized the disk, so no longer macos ... Any idea/bypass ? Jean-Francois -- Jean-Francois Gobin - Administrat

Re: Install on a PowerMacintosh 7200/90

2002-04-16 Thread Janne Karjanlahti
Hello! Only real problem is that because that version of Open Firmware doesn't drive display, I have never actually seen quik to boot, only blank screen. After linux starts to boot everything is ok. I haven't figured out yet how I can boot different kernels, ie how to use quik boot-menu with my

Re: Install on a PowerMacintosh 7200/90

2002-04-15 Thread Rogério Brito
On Apr 15 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > Right. You can't, unless you hook up another machine. It's sending > and receiving over the modem port. Nice to hear it worked well in > spite of that. The potato version does _not_ work so well, so I'd > advise installing woody. If another data poi

Re: Install on a PowerMacintosh 7200/90

2002-04-15 Thread eric . s . cote
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:04:15AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 12:11:56PM +0300, Janne Karjanlahti wrote: > > Hello! > > > > Only real problem is that because that version of Open Firmware doesn't > > drive display, I have never actually seen quik to boot, only blank >

Re: Install on a PowerMacintosh 7200/90

2002-04-15 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 12:11:56PM +0300, Janne Karjanlahti wrote: > Hello! > > I installed Debian Woody to my PowerMac 7200/90 just yesterday. I booted > from boot-floppy, and then switched root-floppy to disk drive. After > that I complete normal network (http) install. Everything simple works

Re: Install on a PowerMacintosh 7200/90

2002-04-15 Thread Janne Karjanlahti
Hello! I installed Debian Woody to my PowerMac 7200/90 just yesterday. I booted from boot-floppy, and then switched root-floppy to disk drive. After that I complete normal network (http) install. Everything simple works out of box... wow! Before that I tried several other distributions, but n

Re: Install on a PowerMacintosh 7200/90

2002-04-15 Thread Thomas Peri
Follow the instructions on the Debian web site for installation: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/install or http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/powerpc/install I've successfully installed Linux on a 7200/90 in the past, though it wasn't Debian. Setting it up to boot without Bo

Install on a PowerMacintosh 7200/90

2002-04-15 Thread Jean-Francois Gobin
Hello all, I've given up for the E20 IBM and reinstalled AiX on it. Let's wait for next release of debian. Anyway, I found another worthy computer : PowerMacintosh 7200/90. Does anyone know how to install linux on it and if I really need that stupid little MacOS partition on the disk. Thanks f