Subject: Re: Removing BootX on Old World system
From: Andy Green (agreen1@austin.rr.com)
Date: Sun Oct 07 2001 - 12:45:08 MDT
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On Sunday, October 7, 2001, at 12:21 PM, Brian Watson wrote:
>> >
>>> I did not think this was possible? Has anyone had success in
>>> completely eradicating Mac OS from their Old World system while
>>> running linux?
>>>
>>> --Brian
>>
>> Use quik. It was probably installed with YDL 2.0 by default. At
>> least,
>> when I've gone through the install, it mentions something about
>> installing
>> quik right at the end.
>>
>> 'man quik' and/or 'man quik.conf' for more information. And do a
>> search for
>> 'quik' on google.com. If you screw things up, just remember that you
>> can
>> zap the pram to get it to boot back into MacOS.
>>
>> I haven't gotten quik to work yet with YDL 2.0. However, the 7200's I
>> have
>> were flaky in that regard even with Linuxppc 2000, so I haven't given
>> up
>> hope yet.
>>
>> In fact, it's possible to remove MacOS out of the loop entirely--even
>> during
>> installation. You can use the open firmware to tell the Mac to boot
>> off of
>> a floppy with a Linux kernel image. I think it's more elegant, but
>> I'm sure
>> it's a bit of a pain from the distribution developer end of things.
>>
>> Andrew Leahy
>> aleahy@knox.edu
>
> Thanks. I'm not really in a hurry to try it out, seeing as I finally
> got my server up and running without problems for the second time. The
> first time I had proftpd problems, so I had to completely reinstall
> YDL. (I was getting lots of segmentation faults. Then I tried to
> reinstall and none of the services were working correctly.) Now
> everything's working fine. Besides, I like to be able to easily switch
> between MacOS and Linux. Although, yes, I would like to see and Old
> World system without any MacOS at all. It would just be neat to remove
> the extra step of booting through MacOS to get into Linux.
>
> Also, I haven't been able to access open firmware by pressing
> option-command-o-f. Is there another sequence on old world systems? It
> just boots into Mac OS.
>
> --Brian
>
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