Hi all, this is my first post.
I got a Powerbook 165 with 8 MB of RAM and an 80 MB HD running MacOS 7.1.1.
What I'd like to do is run Linux on the PB165. I've read a little of the debian linux on mac 68k material
but find the EMILE project (last change was July 2008) more interesting. I don't really want to boot
Linux through Penguin (I'm afraid I won't learn anything through that method).
The first step I've made is downloaded the rescue floppy binary and wrote it to a floppy to boot.
It boots fine, but there doesn't seem to be a keyboard driver as I cannot press 'Enter' to activate
the console. Nothing from the keyboard is registering. Any advice?
So to my main question. I'll need an environment in order to build new kernels, et. al. I was wondering
if there are pre-existing build environments? Obviously, I'd like to use modern hardware and have
a cross-compiler to build the kernel and root file system. Any advice? What would be great is if there
was a vagrantbox available with the toolchain ready.
That leads me to another question. So I used Slackware to install Linux on an IBM PS/2 model 70.
It was a very good experience because there were plenty of pieces available in which I could use
in order to boot linux and mount a root file system. The floppies were designed so that it had a simple
boot loader which offered the user the option to boot linux with customizable perameters. So for instance,
I could boot the floppy and direct the kernel to look for rootfs on a parallel Zip disk I had installed.
This obviously depended on whether the kernel contained the required drivers to talk to the drive.
Or, I could tell the kernel through the boot parameter to mount root off of the floppy and the kernel
would prompt me to replace the floppy. I was wondering if the debian material provides those capabilities
for the Mac platform (68k)? Thanks.
I got a Powerbook 165 with 8 MB of RAM and an 80 MB HD running MacOS 7.1.1.
What I'd like to do is run Linux on the PB165. I've read a little of the debian linux on mac 68k material
but find the EMILE project (last change was July 2008) more interesting. I don't really want to boot
Linux through Penguin (I'm afraid I won't learn anything through that method).
The first step I've made is downloaded the rescue floppy binary and wrote it to a floppy to boot.
It boots fine, but there doesn't seem to be a keyboard driver as I cannot press 'Enter' to activate
the console. Nothing from the keyboard is registering. Any advice?
So to my main question. I'll need an environment in order to build new kernels, et. al. I was wondering
if there are pre-existing build environments? Obviously, I'd like to use modern hardware and have
a cross-compiler to build the kernel and root file system. Any advice? What would be great is if there
was a vagrantbox available with the toolchain ready.
That leads me to another question. So I used Slackware to install Linux on an IBM PS/2 model 70.
It was a very good experience because there were plenty of pieces available in which I could use
in order to boot linux and mount a root file system. The floppies were designed so that it had a simple
boot loader which offered the user the option to boot linux with customizable perameters. So for instance,
I could boot the floppy and direct the kernel to look for rootfs on a parallel Zip disk I had installed.
This obviously depended on whether the kernel contained the required drivers to talk to the drive.
Or, I could tell the kernel through the boot parameter to mount root off of the floppy and the kernel
would prompt me to replace the floppy. I was wondering if the debian material provides those capabilities
for the Mac platform (68k)? Thanks.