Re: Installing Debian on a Mac 7600 with G3 upgrade

2001-04-20 Thread Aaron Hall
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > I don't have very much experience with installing Linux on the PPC > architecture but I believe that "yaboot" is the bootloader that you > want to use if you have a "newworld" machine. That being said I have > no idea if your is newworld. A 7600 isn't

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac 7600 with G3 upgrade

2001-04-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:29:33PM -0400, Leyah Cynamon wrote: > I have a PowerMac 7600 which has an XLR8 400 Mhz Mach Speed G3 Card > replacing the original Apple132 Mhz processor (daughter) card. > > I noticed that the BootX 1.2.2 ReadMe says in bold lettering "BootX and > miBoot should be avoi

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac 7600 with G3 upgrade

2001-04-19 Thread Andrew D Dixon
> I noticed that the BootX 1.2.2 ReadMe says in bold lettering "BootX and > miBoot should be avoided on "newworld" type machines". As I don't know > if my machine qualifies as a "new world" type machine, I have to ask: > has anyone tried BootX on a machine like mine? or is that not such a > good id

Installing Debian on a Mac 7600 with G3 upgrade

2001-04-19 Thread Leyah Cynamon
Hi, I just downloaded Bootx from http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac along with other files shown on that page required for installation of Debian GNU/Linux on a PowerMac. I have never tried to install Debian GNU/Linux or any other Linux on my mac or any other computer for that matte