oldworld macs [Was: WARTY review]

[John]

volvoguy wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:28:15 +1100, Jeff Waugh <jeff.waugh at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 15:17 +0800, John wrote:
>>
>>>Will a Unbuntu CD boot on my 72xx powermac? I'm in need of a recovery
>>>CD. Or something.
>>
>>No, 7200 is oldworld, which is not supported. That said, I've heard that
>>some people have had success with BootX and things.
> 
> 
> Having heard that, I have a 6100. I'll race you to get Ubuntu
> installed John. :-)  <jk>
> 
> With mine running at 33Mhz, it wouldn't take much to beat me. 


I said _recovery_. It's been my firewall for about a year, and
a) Following an encounter with the ungodly I locked things down. Amongst 
other things, disabled root.
b) Following a power failure it's in need of an "e2fsck -y." sulogin 
won't let me in. Bloody stupid Debian.

There's no boot menu: screen doesn't warm up enough to display anything 
until it's in the fsck.

I've tried booting a Sarge CD, a recovery CD I found on a Linux Format CD...

I did take a backup just a few days before it happened. Sadly,
ssh fw tar cl / >backup.tar
makes a corrupt tarball.

I'm looking for a better alternative to removing disk, installing in a 
SCSI IA32 box and booting Knoppix or similar so I can do an e2fsck.

In the meantime I've set up a relacement firewall based on Woody on a 
Pentium II. Spent ages getting shorewall setup right.


I don't wish to install U on one of these relics, but if it works as a 
recovery disk for them I'd be happy to use it for that:-)