I've never been able to get those games to install and play myself. The hard drive space issue also was a problem for me, but this also is a problem with some install scripts on amiga. Its a large drve issue or something. The installer I use came with the sdk update I think, not sure though. I can install freespace fine now, but it wont run. I would bother anyway. The game is buggy and even more so under MorphOS.

The linux issue is another matter. I attempted to get Debian to install for months and gave up. I have Gentoo installed now. If you go to the Gentoo site and search fo the ppc install handbook it walks you through the install process. Its a lot better linux too and not its even supported on the PPC live CD.

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Install to them to a small drive or partition (smaller than 2GB) and then copy directory to final location.

I.e. RAM DISK is often good candinate.

Installing Debian is a piece of cake.

The new Debian PPC install CD support Pegasos out of the box.
Make sure to install either Debian unstable or testing (sarge)
Do NOT try to install the old stabe (woody) branch!

Burn your install CD but in into the CD drive and boot the chrp kernel image. As the pegasos is as chrp PPC machine you need to take the chrp linux kernel! The kernel is somewhere under /install/ - I think ... I have no Debian CD to verify this at the moment, sorry.
You'll need to double check the folder name.
Look in the install folder for the powerpc chrp kernel.

Boot it with the following command
boot cd /install/otherfolder/linuxkernelname

Now debian will install and recognise all your hardware (gibabit/etc) ...

A note:
The pegasos firmware can boot from ext2 and ext3 partitions.
Make sure to choose for your boot patition one of those formats. (ext3 is a good choice for all partitions)


Have fun with debian!

Cheers
Gunnar

P.S. I'll search for a CD later to give you the correct folder name

A link to the correct CD would help too. I have a 10GB drive in my
machine not doing much I could put it on now.

For Debian 3.0r4-3.1:

Read these for bugs and other installation notes:
http://www.nl.debian.org/releases/sarge/
http://www.nl.debian.org/distrib/
http://www.nl.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/install

Go to Freescale.com and read the Debian installation guide for Pegasos systems (AN739).
http://search.freescale.com/cs.html?url=http%3A//www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/app_note/AN2739.pdf&qt=pegasos&col=product tspub&n=3

And for the CDs:
http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/debian-cd/images/3.0_r4/powerpc/

Actually, that last post didn;thave the correct links for the Sarge distribution so here it is:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/Release
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/Contents-powerpc.gz
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge-proposed-updates/
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge-proposed-updates/Release

And here is the correct sarge CD ISOs for you:

http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/weekly/powerpc/

Hi Guys,

Thanks to your help i have make some progress concerning the debian
installation, but now i am facing somthing new. after the finsh of the
installation i am able to boot on debian login under "root" or any
other user but NOT ON WINDOWS ENVIROMENT! THE BOOT COMES ON A SHELL
KIND ENVIROMENT.

AND SOMTHING ELSE CONCERNING MORPHOS: WHEN I TRY TO RUN KNIGHTS AND
MERCHANTS I GOT THE VIDEOS ON THE START BUT WHEN IT COMES TO RUN THE
GAME IT FREESES ON A BLANK SCREEN. Please notice that i am under
morphos 1.4.4

best regards and thanks again for all your help!!!!!!


George

Hmm, did you install the a graphic environment at all?

The pure basic debian install of course has no gui.

Can you run the command "startx" ?
Running startx from shell is like running "loadwb" on Amiga it will start the Gui


Cheers
Gunnar

@cbrxx1100
in my first installation try I had the same problem. BigGun says right, you must see "Desktop" in packets list then you must choose it and the X11 ambient with gnome, kde etc. will be installed.

> As the pegasos is as chrp PPC machine you need to take the chrp linux kernel!

All good things come to an end eventually. CHRP support to be removed from the Linux kernel after v6.12:

"The Linux CHRP code only supports a handful of machines, all 32-bit, eg. […] bplan/Genesi Pegasos/Pegasos2 […]. All of those mentioned above are over or nearing 20 years old, and seem to have no active users. So remove the CHRP support. If there's interest in still supporting some of the machines that can be brought back from the git history."
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2024-November/278393.html

Some news coverage:
https://www.osnews.com/story/141178/linux-to-lose-support-for-apple-and-ibms-failed-powerpc-common-hardware-reference-platform/