On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:19:14PM +0100, Otto wrote: > hi all, > > I am currently running LinuxPPC, MacOS X and MacOS 9.04 on my pismo and > would like to give debian-ppc a try. > > so if anyone out there is happily using debian-ppc on their pismo, please > let me know! otherwise, if you had trouble getting it to run, please save me > some time and drop me a line, too. maybe I can even help you out..? debian runs fine on the pismo. > I used ybin/yaboot to set up my boot configuration (works great). right now, > I have the following partitions: > > 1 HFS bootstrap > 1 HFS+ MacOS 9.04 > 1 HFS+ MacOS X > 1 ext2 LinuxPPC > 1 swap > 1 HFS shared data > > for debian, I would like to convert the shared data partition to ext2 and > use my swap partition for both debian and LinuxPPC. > that way, I would only have to add an entry for debian in my yaboot conf - > right? yes, something like this: image=/vmlinux label=debian root=/dev/hda7 read-only partition=7 this assumes that the debian partition is /dev/hda7, that partiton= line must point at the debian root partition, you linuxppc images must have a partition line pointing at the linuxppc root partition. note that you *must* change the partition type of that HFS exchange if you choose to use it for debian instead of as a HFS exchange. otherwise MacOS will try and mount it as HFS, see there is no HFS filesystem and helpfully offer to erase it. > as the debian-ppc port is quite new, are there any known problems I should > know about? debian-ppc was first released with potato aka debian 2.2. which has been out for several monthes now. debian-ppc has existed far longer then that though. it is very stable. (the most stable and well made of all the [ppc] distros IMO. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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