Debian Potato on oldworld powerpc
Bruce Dawson
jbd at codemeta.com
Sun Dec 15 19:18:56 EST 2002
Has anyone successfully installed Potato (Debian 2.2) on an "old world"
PowerPC (specifically: a UMAX 500)?
We excavated several of these things from the barn and we'd like to put
Linux on them and donate them to an outreach project in Nevis (a small
country in the Caribbean).
I've attempted to follow the installation instructions, but they are
incredibly vague and disjoint on the old-world macs. I'm instructed to
boot from the rescue disk, but there's no rescue.bin in the powermac
directory.
The Debian CD#1 has the following files for the powermac:
BootX_1.2.2.sit boot-floppy-hfs.img ofboot.b vmlinux
yaboot.conf
TRANS.TBL bootvars1.3b.sit.hqx root.bin yaboot
All the other installation directories (apus, chrp, prep) have the
following files (and matches the installation instructions) - except the
prep, which also has a boot.bin).
TRANS.TBL linux rescue.bin root.bin
So the powermac doesn't have a rescue.bin image, and I'm at a loss as to
what to do with the other files.
Does anyone have any ideas/experience/references?
--Bruce
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