Ha! There is no better way :-( I have a beige G3/266 which I have
running debian, and you have to get a mac os 9 app called BootX. There's
a procedure involved in getting linux booted on this type of machine.
Basically, partition using a Mac OS install disk (though if you have
multiple hard drives you can just use the installer's disk partition
utility after booting), then put your kernel file into your Mac OS
System Folder (actually, BootX has instructions on exactly where to put
it), double click the BootX application, choose the location of your
kernel, give some other arguments for the kernel command line, click the
"Linux" button, and you're off! There's some quirks with screen
resolution, sound, and a couple of other things, but hopefully this will
get you started.
Russell
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 07:53 -0400, Russ Wright wrote:
> AJ
>
> After some googling about I can now say with some confidence the
> computer is a Mac G3 Beige. So far no joy on loading Linux. It seems I
> have to install a boot loader into MAC OS 9 and then it will boot Linux
> from inside the OS.
>
> There has to be a better way.
>
> Regards
> Russ
>
>
> On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 18:29 -0400, A2L1 wrote:
> > Russ,
> > You didnt specify what G3 but I can say that YD runs great on G3 B&Ws. I have
> > had it running a more than one. Currently it is running on a G# B&W 400 and
> > runs fast and strong. I have Debian on another and it is running great also.
> > I am in the process of getting Gentoo to load on the third one but i may just
> > wimp out and install Vitalinux.
> > Yes Linux will run great on a G3, Yellow Dog specifically will run with no
> > problems.
> >
> > A J
>
> >
>
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