Bender lives on! Sadly Futurama wont! :( yeah i thought about debian but the last two installs i tried sucked! Once on a sparc and the other was on my B&W. RTMF :-) Maybe I'll give debian one last try on my 7500. If i can boot via open firmware that would golden! -J --- Josh Huber <huber@alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
Jeremy <mcotis@yahoo.com> writes:
Does anyone have a SCSI cdrom that I can borrow/buy for an old 7500? My linux box is such a hackjob of software that I want to reinstall it with YDL. Low and behold I try it last week and the damn CDROM drive doesnt seem to work! Some files copy, some dont... I will just assume its the drive due to age/heat. So I was hoping someone (near WPI) had a CDROM drive i could borrow (external would be good). The drive i think would have to work in MacOS too (to install BOOTX files). Such a PITA some times. Beside CDROM, what other PPC install options still exisit? The boot floppies over network from linuxppc.org use to work but i am not sure they are still around. YDL seemed like a good choice for now.
Ah, good old bender?
I don't have an external cdrom drive, but you could try dding the debian recsue floppy to a disk and booting/installing from that:
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/disks-powerpc/current/po...
I think that image is for booting older machines. But, I don't know and I'm not sure if that image even works ;)
YMMV. (debian is nice though...)
ttyl,
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