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| 20:23.25 | ZeroGDucks | Howdy folkd! I've currently got the Debian 10 Netinst cd booted on my Power Mac 7500 (Old World machine), and I had a bizarre idea run through my head. If I were to install a more mainstream graphics card into my PCI slot (such as an NVIDIA, which would never have Mac OS 9 support)), would the installer be likely to not only detect it, but utilize or install drivers for it? |
| 20:25.08 | ZeroGDucks | Or am I basically stuck using whatever graphics cards were available in the late 90s-early 2000s? :) |
| 20:35.24 | pahartik | ZeroGDucks: There were some PCI graphics adapters that could be used with special firmware |
| 20:37.23 | pahartik | ZeroGDucks: Maybe up to official ATI Radeon R9000 or R9100 (or then that was just for NewWorld, not sure) |
| 20:38.25 | ZeroGDucks | I gotcha! :D I guess I can figure that out for a later project, haha! |
| 20:39.48 | ZeroGDucks | Right now I'm trying to get the system installed in the first place, and to my surprise that's working with almost hassle on this ancient machine lol. |
| 20:39.56 | ZeroGDucks | *almost no hassle |
| 21:24.49 | ZeroGDucks | "mount -t hfsplus/dev/sda6 hfs" returns "mount: mounting /dev/sda6 on hfs/ failed: No such device" - My goal is to mount my Mac OS 9 drive so I can copy the /boot folder to it, and be able to select and boot my kernel from BootX. Anything I'm missing here? :( |
| 21:25.16 | ZeroGDucks | sda6 is my Mac OS 9 partition. sda7 would be my OS 7 drive, if that's doable maybe? |
| 21:26.15 | ZeroGDucks | Either way they're both listed in /etc, which makes the error all the more confusing to me haha. |
| 21:58.16 | pahartik | ZeroGDucks: Does "/dev/sda6" exist? |
| 22:00.22 | ZeroGDucks | It does. It's the partition the Mac boots off of. It's in /dev/ (pardon my previous spelling error there lol) and shows up on partman |
| 22:02.37 | ZeroGDucks | as far as I've googled the command syntax is on-point as well haha. |
| 22:04.30 | ZeroGDucks | I wonder if there's an alternative way to transfer the folder, like scp to another computer... |
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| 22:45.43 | ZeroGDucks | You're gonna love the workaround I found lol. I remembered that I have a USB card installed on this Mac, so I copied my whole /boot folder to an ext4 flash drive and copied it over to my main Ubuntu computer. Now the next step is to reboot to Mac into OS 9, which acts as an ftp server, and send the whole folder over that way :D |
| 22:59.06 | pahartik | ZeroGDucks: That should work |
| 23:00.52 | ZeroGDucks | And it did!! Woohoo! |
| 23:01.17 | ZeroGDucks | Now to get X on it :D |
| 23:26.33 | ZeroGDucks | Seems I can only install stuff off the CD ð¬ I remember reading that PPC doesn't have any official repos but does have a ports system? I can't seem to find a good guide on adding that :( |