[plug] Linux on Macintosh 8500/120

[Cameron Patrick]

Craig Ringer wrote:

> > I have Debian running on a 9600 and it works pretty well.  The
> > installation was a bugger though, needed to install Mac OS 7.5 on a
> > small partition and boot Linux from that using BootX (the normal
> > non-Mac OS bootloader just refused to work for me).
> 
> I think YaBoot etc are new-world only.

There is quik, which works on oldworld.  It needs some open firmware
hackery to make it go, though, and I never managed to get it to even
boot to the quik splash screen thingy - just got inscrutable OF errors
instead.  BootX, while icky, does have the advantage of working.

Cameron