Well, I could say it was not too much trouble, but temper that by saying
that even when I was really into it, I had 5+ years of Linux experience.
Manual partitioning, command line, hacking around in config files, etc
was/is all pretty second nature to me.
The general idea was I had two HDs - one I had a pretty much full Mac OS
7.5.5 install running on with complete ethernet drivers, video setup,
web browsers, etc etc. This made it trivial to download the Linux files
directly. From there it was pretty straightforward booting the install
disk images and letting it do its thing on the other drive. There
are/were pretty straightforward instructions for it. There are new
methods of doing it since the original install instructions were
published way back when, mostly involving debootstrap and premade kernels.
My setup is pretty old, one of these days I'll get around to updating
it. The main thing to remember is that in general the only thing
platform-specific is the kernel. Once it's booting on a Mac, the
userspace is mostly the same between Mac, Atari, Amiga, etc. This makes
it a lot easier to take work from a more active platform and use it on a
Mac.
I wonder whatever happened to whats-her-name Dana that was trying to
boot Mac OS X in a 68k compile of PearPC. IIRC she ran into some endian
issues since she was sharing the boot image over a network but I never
heard the end result. Never got around to trying to myself.
Scott
On 1/6/2013 11:26 AM, dale-gmail wrote:
hi Scott;
how much trouble did you have getting linux running on a lc475?
I have (2) 25mhz lc475's with 68meg memory running some sort of
linux, (they are packed away - moving)
I have seen the 68k google group bunch working on getting the latest
debian running on 68k - mostly Atari -
problem I have is getting the software on to hard disk and booting.
thanks for your interest;
dale in cortez
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