On Sunday 05 May 2002 09:30 pm, Jeremy wrote:
Does anyone have a SCSI cdrom that I can borrow/buy for an old 7500? 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.
-Jeremy Hi Jeremy,
I think you're right, getting an external SCSI CD might be the easiest solution. However, since you asked, there are other solutions! You can setup netatalk on another Linux box and can download any Mac files you need, first to your Mac and then copy them to the other Mac volume on the other machine. The 7.5.3 system folder on the Network Access Disk and the MkLinux Booter will allow you to load a Linux kernel and initRD to install YDL. I now have an installer with the MkLinux booter, a 2.4.6-pre3 kernel and initRD into a small (20 MB) HFS partition. The kernel uses the onboard NIC and can then do a network install of YDL 1.2. The newer releases, though, can only be installed from a local CD or DVD. --Skip