Re: Install Sarge on a Ibook ?
Hi Diego
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 21:55, Diego Bellavia wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is my first message in this list, and I willl
> begin with a presentation : I am Diego, an happy
> owner of an Ibook G3 900 MHZ, combo. Some weeks ago I
> upgraded my system to the panther, and in that
> occasion I partitioned my HD so that a partition of 3
> GB is now free just to install a debian inside !
You're sure 3 GB is enough for you? ...
> I read some how-to and the instruction are quite
> clear, but what I would like to do is to install a
> debian testing distribution (Sarge);
On a more than 1 year old PowerBook G4, 867MHz, Radeon 9000 the
following worked like a charm:
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html
Not being sure how new your ibook is, which exact hardware you have and
whether it is already supported on Debian ppc.
But:
http://linux-on-laptops.com/apple.html
http://malik.homelinux.org/ibook/ibook-2.6.html
and probably much more via Google :)
Good luck
Regards
Wolfgang
> I think the best
> way to do it is to install a very little "core" of
> debian from wich install the complete debian testing
> distribution (so,a network installation ) but I do not
> know exactly what is the procedure and where to find
> the core I need to start the installation; I am sure
> this is not the first time of a request like this
> here, so a link with a tutorial or the essential
> informations would be greatly appreciated: Note the in
> my system I do not have Mac OS 9, only Panther and,
> hopefully, Linux Debian :)
>
> Thank you in advance for any help or advices,
>
> Diego
>
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