From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3716103B.E1F6D4C4@email.com> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 12:13:48 -0400 From: Luke Andrews-Hakken Reply-To: landrews@email.com MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, linuxppc-user@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Booting IDE B&W G3. (it's easy!) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Okay this is the third time I have tried sending this message. I don't know what the problem is but if you get multiple copies I'm sorry. It is most definately possible to boot linuxppc with the new kernal on a B&W. I know I'm sitting here right now in X and I'm happy to be back. Okay here's the deal: first off. You Must have a second IDE Hard Drive. I'm useing an old 2GB from a motorola Starmax. (i don't know the model, it just has an OEM sticker on it). The hard drive is sitting in the Zip slot with the pre-installed apple IDE cable running into it. 2) Use the kernal linked from www.linuxppc.org/news/BlueG3.shtml 3) You'll need bootX of course. And the ram disk. And the utils.sit that are listed in the imac install. MAKE SURE YOU FTP THESE IN BINARY FORMAT. Also place the folder in / on your mac partition. (I.E. not on the desktop). 4) Rename the vmlinux-2.2.1-challenger2.gz to just vmlinux and place it in the same directory as BootX. Fire it up with the "no video driver" and "use ramdisk" buttons checked. This should dump you into the redhat installer. 5)From there on it's gravy. use pdisk to partition. check the packages you want. Etc. The installer runs get the packages and bingo. Your golden NOTE: Near the end of the installer it asks you to install the boot ?blockers? I skipped this because it didn't seem right. Anyway if anyone has any idea if this is good or bad tell me. Also I haven't moved the bootX foler, or any componets from there original place. I also have to specify the partition number in the bootx window. /dev/hdb6 <-- for example. Well that's it good luck guys (and girls) any further questions please email me _luke http://raptor.slc.edu/~apex/ ( yes I was the guy who compiled linuxppc quake. Don't ask me about that right now. It's very painful when a server goes down taking all of your data with it). [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]