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, -- Josh Huber