Re: Request proof-reading: installing Debian over LinuxPPC
William Ono <wmono@home.com> writes:
> Hi, folks. I received a handful of responses when I asked if anyone was
> interested in a document about installing Debian over LinuxPPC, so I
> decided to give it a try. I used the notes I took while doing this on my
> iMac, so the instructions might be a little iMac-centric.
Hi. That's great that there is now a comprehensive page on installing
Debian on a mac; all the instructions are clear and look correct
(except the BootX-hd.jpg image is broken). It looks basically like
the procedure I used on my power computing clone.
There are a couple of things you may want to add:
1) a note about setting up X (i.e. copying and tweaking
/usr/doc/xserver-common/examples/XF86Config.eg to /etc/X11/XF86Config)
2) installing Debian without having to pre-install LinuxPPC; if you
don't have a CD or a fast network connection handy, the impatient may
not want to download everything for the LinuxPPC install. You can
actually install Debian with just BootX, kernel image, and a ramdisk
from LinuxPPC. You give BootX a kernel argument of init=/bin/sh and
then do a couple of hackery-things by hand to avoid the whole redhat
install. Once complete there are only a couple of other things done
different from your document.
If you think #2 would be useful to some people, I'd be glad to write
up the full procedure for you to include.
-aaron
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Aaron Culich (aculich@hampshire.edu)
http://hampshire.edu/~alcF93/
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