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Re: [Patch] Install Manual Touch-up



On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 06:19:09PM +0000, Chris Tillman wrote:
> +     <p>
> +Nubus systems are not currently supported by debian/powerpc. The
> +monolithic (LinuxPPC) kernel architecture does not have support for

the proper term is PPC/Linux or Linux/PPC.  LinuxPPC is a corporation
and a unsupported corporate distribution.  

> +The NewWorld PowerMacs use a more complete Open Firmware bootloader,
> +which supports booting from a network or an ISO9660 CD-ROM, as well as
> +ELF binary loading. These machines will boot Linux directly via
> +<prgn>yaboot</prgn>, which supports loading a kernel and ramdisk
> +directly from an ext2 partition, as well as dual-booting with MacOS.

please add a note that BootX is NOT supported on NewWorlds and MUST
NOT be used on them.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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