NotQuiteSane
11-21-2004, 03:39 AM
I received this machine free, and thought I'd try to put linux on for s & g's.
I have been using SuSE for about 4 years now, and wanted something different, plus I like apt (use the port on my main box)
I've spent the last 2 days googling for what I could find on the m68K linux installation
found a few good pages, including on lowend mac & the debian howto for m68k. plus some on here of course.
First off it's running a 603 chip at 100 mhz with 40 MB and about 810 MB IDE drive. Nothing big. I'm actually gonna be supprized if I can put X & a small WM on it. no biggie, lynx and mutt run fine w/o x. re-installed 7.3 from the released files on apple.com, upgradded to 7.5.5, got about 50 MB used on the drive
I've downloaded the net install cd and burned it. naturally, it doesn't auto boot. some more searching lead me to grab bootx. it has a .sit extension, which apparently is a stuffit compressed file.
So i grabbed the classic version of stuffit, and guess what? it's got a .sit extension too. talk about a catch 22...
ok, so more searching led me to a self extracting version of stuffit v4. however that file is not good. so, problem #1: does anyone have a good copy of stuffit i can use?
Second, partitioning. I've run pdisk, and my table looks like this:
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hda/'
#: type name length base (size)
1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
2: Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 64 @ 64
3: Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 64 @ 128
4: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 192
5: Apple_HFS " " 165462 @ 704 (810.3m)
6: Apple_Free Extra 10 @ 1660176
I understand i need to keep a small mac partition, and i'm thinking a 100 mb swap should be fine. With a seperate /home, that's 4 partitions. lets make home 100 mb, nice round number. give 50 to mac, that leaves us 560 for root.
So, which partitions can I delete? Can I just delete all, then create the new partitions? what about re-installing the mac OS? I don't have the CD's, and am unsure if I can make a boot disk without the orginal software.
last, but most certainly not least is this right:
O.K. so what files do you in fact need? On the Debian CD-ROM. You need
to go the folder on the CD called "mac" in the "install" folder and
copy the files "root.bin" and "sysmap.gz" into the "mac" folder. In
addition you need to copy the the folder "images-1.44" and its
contents to drive. In this folder you will also find a file called
"root.bin" strictly speaking you do not need to copy this file. It
is not necessary for installation.
copy those files over, then point xboot at them, boot linux and start the installer?
NQS
I have been using SuSE for about 4 years now, and wanted something different, plus I like apt (use the port on my main box)
I've spent the last 2 days googling for what I could find on the m68K linux installation
found a few good pages, including on lowend mac & the debian howto for m68k. plus some on here of course.
First off it's running a 603 chip at 100 mhz with 40 MB and about 810 MB IDE drive. Nothing big. I'm actually gonna be supprized if I can put X & a small WM on it. no biggie, lynx and mutt run fine w/o x. re-installed 7.3 from the released files on apple.com, upgradded to 7.5.5, got about 50 MB used on the drive
I've downloaded the net install cd and burned it. naturally, it doesn't auto boot. some more searching lead me to grab bootx. it has a .sit extension, which apparently is a stuffit compressed file.
So i grabbed the classic version of stuffit, and guess what? it's got a .sit extension too. talk about a catch 22...
ok, so more searching led me to a self extracting version of stuffit v4. however that file is not good. so, problem #1: does anyone have a good copy of stuffit i can use?
Second, partitioning. I've run pdisk, and my table looks like this:
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hda/'
#: type name length base (size)
1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
2: Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 64 @ 64
3: Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 64 @ 128
4: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 192
5: Apple_HFS " " 165462 @ 704 (810.3m)
6: Apple_Free Extra 10 @ 1660176
I understand i need to keep a small mac partition, and i'm thinking a 100 mb swap should be fine. With a seperate /home, that's 4 partitions. lets make home 100 mb, nice round number. give 50 to mac, that leaves us 560 for root.
So, which partitions can I delete? Can I just delete all, then create the new partitions? what about re-installing the mac OS? I don't have the CD's, and am unsure if I can make a boot disk without the orginal software.
last, but most certainly not least is this right:
O.K. so what files do you in fact need? On the Debian CD-ROM. You need
to go the folder on the CD called "mac" in the "install" folder and
copy the files "root.bin" and "sysmap.gz" into the "mac" folder. In
addition you need to copy the the folder "images-1.44" and its
contents to drive. In this folder you will also find a file called
"root.bin" strictly speaking you do not need to copy this file. It
is not necessary for installation.
copy those files over, then point xboot at them, boot linux and start the installer?
NQS