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trying to set up a serial terminal to connect to an old mac

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dpopiz

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I've been posting in another thread trying to figure out how to install debian on an old Umax 200MHz PPC mac. you can see it here. thanks a lot to haden, with him I've determined that the Open Firmware is set to not use the monitor output or a keyboard. so, he said I should connect it to a serial terminal. I'm assuming if I could get the serial ports of the mac and some pc, I could run hyperterminal on the pc and use it to set the Open Firmware. first of all, the mac's ADB port is just like a serial port, right? so could I use a null modem cable with a serial to ADB adapter on one end to connect the two machines?

please post if you have any experience with any of the things I've mentioned
thanks
 
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