[plug] Getting linux running ona beige g3 mac

[Quintin Lette]

On Wednesday 16 April 2003 15:40, Craig Ringer wrote:
> >>Linux was then in its infancy,
> >
> > Linux?? Pah, FrameMaker 2.0 was surely available not only for Mac
> > but also in its X11 version for NeXT, Ultrix, Solaris, HP-UX, etc ;-)
>
> Yep. A handy thing it would've been too, when people said "but macs are
> so expensive!". *grin*.
>
> Of course, the core of MacOS hasn't seriously advanced since then except
> in memory footprint and slowdown factor. OS7 was the best OS around ...
> alas, its still better than OS9.
>
> I'll keep my 1.5Ghz athlon with 2x 120g HDDs and a gig of RAM thanks. I
> remember my "gigantic" 160mb HDD in my LCIII - still got it here
> somewhere. It was a big step up from the 40mb (?) in the SE/30 I had
> before.
>
> My introduction to UNIX on a personal machine (as opposed to
> tartarus.uwa.edu.au) was NetBSD on that LCIII . That's why it was more
> than a year before I even looked at UNIX again *grin*. It booted to
> "/etc/passwd not found - logging in as root". Umm....
>
> That raises one relevant point - if you can't get YDL or Debian/PPC to
> run, try NetBSD. It seems to run on anything.
>
> Craig Ringer

Any hints on getting a mac 7200/120 to boot from anything but harddisk (ie 
floppy or cd) I intend to put debian on it as soon as I can.

Bear with me, its my first ever experience with a mac, and I only got it 
yesterday afternoon. :) It has Mac OS 7.5.3 if that makes any difference.

Thanks

Quintin