Re: preparing for an install
On Oct 14 2002, Chris Tillman wrote:
> The big problem I always had with that boot loader was the loooooong
> wait while it searched for an Ethernet netboot image, if there is
> none.
I have the same problem.
> I never really tried to use it to boot Linux;
Well, it works with Linux also. In fact, when I installed
Jaguar on my iBook, I "lost" the ability of booting Linux and
as I didn't have a bootable Debian CD handy, I used it without
any problems to be able to re-run ybin.
> yaboot is so much more configurable besides being free software etc.
Yes. What would be nice is if yaboot could have a graphical
chooser like OF's one. :-)
> Don't know if it has any issues supporting Firewire.
I don't have any FW drives, but it would be cool if any
bootloader allowed booting from FW drives, with a graphical
menu. :-)
> > On another (vaguely related?) note, how good is the SMP support in the
> > 2.4 kernel on PPC? And does Mac-on-Linux see both processors?
>
> No idea.
The SMP support works great for an ooold PMac 9500/180MP that
I have here borrowed from my uncle. It's much, much better
than 2.2's support.
I have not tried MOL yet.
BTW, I read the testing excuses file and I don't see why
libgnutls5 hasn't entered testing yet. Anybody knows why? I'm
dying to test mutt it with a particular IMAPS server
(Apple's), which doesn't work with libgnutls4.
[]s, Roger...
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