First off, don't do it! If you aren't a developer, there's no point (as of
today, 3-30-99). You can't use Netscape, and you need to reinstall completely.
That said, if you really want to do it, this is how I did it.
1. Used Apple's Drive Setup to set up two mac partitions and leave the rest
free space (1 big partition HFS+ and a smaller one HFS for file sharing)
2. Installed MacOS 8.5.1.
3. Downloaded the RPMS folder from a linuxppc-pre-R5 mirror; I used Fetch 3.03
in binary mode, and the site I used is linuxppc.linuxberg.com. Very
aggravating, had to keep stopping and restarting the download. Put the RPMS
folder in a folder called RedHat on the smaller HFS partition. Also downloaded
the base folder and put it in the same place.
4. Downloaded kernel version 2.2.1 vmlinux from the same site
5. Downloaded bootx 1.0.2 from calvaweb.calvacom.fr/bh40/
6. Downloaded the "big" ramdisk from www.maths.univ-rennes1.fr/~costabel/linux/R5
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7. put "big" ramdisk, renamed to ramdisk.image.gz, and vmlinux in system folder
8. Started bootx, turned on "Use Ramdisk" and "No Video Driver", and started Linux
9. Oops, forgot you need ramdisk_size=8192 in the kernel options box
10. Installer fires up, asks a few questions which are pretty easy to answer
11. Used "fdisk" or actually pdisk to format the free space on my drive. I
used one big partition for /, and a smaller 80 meg partition for swap. your
mileage may vary, but it seems to handle 2+ gig partitions fine
12. Chose hard drive install, and chose my smaller plain HFS volume as the
as the drive containing Redhat; since the RedHat folder is at the root of the
volume I didn't have to specify a special path
13. Chose my packages; I turned everything off! I found out later that you
really only need to turn Xwindows stuff off, because Xconfigurator hangs the
installer. You can always go back and install the other stuff by hand.
14. Went ahead with the install. Worked. Rebooted and configured my ethernet
port with netcfg (after installing X!). XF68_Dev doesn't work, but Xpmac_MGA does.
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Kernel Panic with drives larger than 2 GB