[plug] Getting linux running ona beige g3 mac

[Brad Campbell]

Quintin Lette wrote:

> 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.
> 

Not a chance.. The only way to do it is with a MacOS init that will laod 
the kernel and boot linux from there.
There is a great Mac PPC linux howto around somewhere.
Pretty much download the base files from the debian archive, put them in 
a folder and run the bootloader. It will fire up the Mac PPC equivalent 
of the boot floppy and you can do the rest from there. You will need to 
leave a small MacOS partition to boot off though.
Leave OS 7.5.3 on it, that's what I'm using here also.

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Brad....
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