Re: Re: Oldworld Mac Support -- thanks

Thanks to all for the info.  I have BootX experience with other distributions.  Sounds like the 6400 may be a good starting point.  Your comments make this sound possible.

Dave


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris L. Mason [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 02:56 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Re: Oldworld Mac Support
> 
> On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:48:06 -0600, Jim Ricken <[email protected]> wrote:
> >  Chris L. Mason wrote:
> >  
> >> I also have it working on an oldword G3 All-in-one (233/4gig/64megs)
> >> booting from a small OS 8.6 paritition with BootX. While a bit slow, it
> >> works great as a backup system for me as well. I even got firefox running
> >> (although I don't run anything else when using it!) Chris    
> 
> > Maybe you can
> > help me out on this
> >      I have oldworld 8600 upgraded with a G4/400mhz proc,497mgs ram,and 4
> > Hd's installed.
> >  1 is a 4gig scsi and the others are 40gb ide,15gb ide,and a 10gb ide.
> >  I was thinking about putting gentoo on one of my drives, probably the 40gb,
> > now I need to go get the software at the gentoo website and burn it to a
> > cd,but what kind of software do I need,I will be using bootx and probably
> > Mac OS 9.0, unless you suggest something else.
> >  Jim
> >
> 
> Hi Jim,
> 
> I think OS 9.0 should be fine.  The main problem was getting the gentoo livecd
> to boot (since it doesn't support booting directly).  Download bootx,
> and then copy
> the kernel and initrd images you need from the kernel to the bootx
> directory, and
> setup them up in the bootx config.  You may need to manually add boot options to
> specify the root being on the cdrom device (I can't remember exactly)
> and you might
> need to also include an option about cramfs (my memory is hazy here.)
> 
> Anyway, then boot linux from bootx and if it works properly everything
> should startup
> okay and you'll get a regular bootup sequence onto the livecd.  Then
> you can just go
> through the manual install procedure as usual.  After doing the
> install and compiling
> the kernel, you need to copy this (make sure you have hfs+ support) to your OS 9
> drive, to use with bootx.  Then reboot into OS 9, update the confirm
> for bootx, and
> hopefully you'll now get a boot menu lets you successfully choose
> between linux and
> macos.
> 
> Sorry if some of this is a bit vague, I did this a few months ago and
> don't remember the
> details (and I'm away on holidays now, so I can't actually check the
> old system.)
> 
> Let me know if you have any specific questions, and I can try to help.
> 
> 
> Chris
> 
> (p.s.  I actually had to go through an extra step, which might be
> important to anyone
> with a single drive.  I had OS 8.6 only on the whole 4 gigs.  So, I
> setup an OS X system
> with a shared drive, copied all of 8.6 (OS + files), reformatted the
> drive, reinstalled OS 8.6,
> remounted the old shared drive, moved all the "new" 8.6 stuff to trash
> and move all the
> copied stuff back to the root drive.  Then run a disk check from
> something like Norton,
> and it should boot and be exactly the same as before, but with less
> disk space.  :)
> 
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