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.
Thanks, I'll submit a new patch whenever aph shows back up. These were added
from Dan's install.txt.
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