On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 02:19:36PM +0100, Bernard.Blundell@aah.co.uk wrote: > To cut a long story short, I had an absolute nightmare. I have many years' > experience with Debian (I am a very passionate advocate) on i386, but the > PPC install completely stumped me. its a bit rough in potato. we are working on making it much better in woody. > Partitioning - The "drive setup" tool under MacOS seems to be the only tool > that everybody will have access to that succeeds in partitioning the drive > correctly. The links to 'mac-fdisk' on the Debian installation pages are > simply links to the man page, which is a terrible thing to do to a newbie. drive setup cannot partition teh disk correctly. please read: http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc/mac-fdisk-basics.txt that is a much better document then the man page. > Booting from the CD-ROMs - simply does not work on my model of iMac, and I > suspect that this will be the case for most iMacs that have undergone the > firmware upgrade necessary for MacOS X or MacOS 9.1. no potato r3 CDs will boot all NewWorld macs. > Booting from Yaboot - Again, MacOS X/9.1 require a firmware upgrade and I > think this prevents the Yaboot installer from working. no it doesn't. > aren't mentioned in the existing Debian documentation (like booting from the > CD in OpenFirmware). same as any CD, you hold down the `c' key at boot. this works with potato r3 CDs. > I've not got bags of time to spare, so the document would have to be "this > is how to install Debian on an iMac DV 400Mhz with a slot-loading DVD". > Fairly limited audience, but I think that there would be a non-trivial > number of potential Debian users out there that gave up long before I did. please get the CVS boot-floppies and work on the documentation, send patches here. we may be able to get a few documentation fixes into the next build of potato boot-floppies. but those are not going to get much more then major bug fixes. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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