Oh man, I hadn't thought about some of the stuff Dana did in forever. The craziest thing I remember was she compiled PearPC for Debian m68k on a Quadra, and was working on booting OS X in it. ISTR she ran into byte order problems, but it got at least as far as the grey Apple screen after some number of days. Never did see the results, but I've always planned on trying it myself. My 840AV started having problems around the time I was going to try it.
As far as Linux goes, for pre-Open Firmware machines I believe the only option is to use to MacOS based bootloader like BootX, miBoot, and quik. For Old World, later Open Firmware based machines ISTR there being some specific things that could be done to boot them. http://www.jonh.net/lppcfom-serve/cache/820.html has some information on it. The usual method I used on my 68k Macs I had running Linux was a teeny (as in, 4-5 megs, or less even) partition with a minimal System 7.1 boot and the BootX extension set to autoboot and in startup. Mac OS would boot very quickly being so stripped down, and it'd immediately jump into Linux and boot nicely. I used an 840AV and a Q605 as my primary mail server at home for years. Finally had to retire them after the need for more processing power got too great. I always did net installs though, so I never had to worry about CD boots and things. Scott Britt Dodd wrote: > Well see, my thing is I dont really understand *how* to initially get > the linux CD to boot. I'm almost positive its not as easy as popping > in the CD and holding down C at boot....and If i'm installing linux on > a mac,I dont want to initiate the process via MacOS. > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Emerson William dos Santos Moura > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I remember a Dana´s (www.danamania.com <http://www.danamania.com>) > old message (2 or 3 years ago) > in the list Debian-PPC with a complex how-to install Debian newer than > Debian Sarge in Macs Old World. > > Do you know any simple way to do this installation? Or Debian was > further supported for Macs Old World? > > > >> Kubuntu (KDE) 9.04: > >> > <http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/ports/releases/9.04/release/> > >> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/ports/releases/9.04/release/ > >> Kubuntu (KDE) 9.10: > >> > <http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/ports/releases/9.10/release/> > >> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/ports/releases/9.10/release/ > >> Or an old version of Xubuntu (XFCE) 6.06: > >> <http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/6.06/release/> > >> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/6.06/release/ > >> Remember: (K / X) Ubuntu´s install supports only New World > Macs. For > >> Old World, only up to version 3.0 - Woody (maybe 3.1 - > Sarge) of > >> Debian and some other distributions of Linux. > > > > Debian 5.0 (Lenny) installs on Old World Macs. > > > > -- > Emerson W.S.Moura > > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage > Macs group. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml > and our netiquette guide is at > http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > To leave this group, send email to > [email protected] > <mailto:vintage-macs%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > > > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs > group. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and > our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
