Re: moving from linuxppc - newbie needs help please
Hi!
well maybe i'm turning 'surper-fluous-man' but
anyway that was what is wildly said here in japan
about the older iMacs
> mac-oriented magazines probably think linux is a MacOS Application and
> not an OS.
"MacLife"'s feb. issue is giving a special article + a cd
to make people install "HolonLinux"
and it tells us that
people with iMacs made before Oct,1999 should use bootX
> it is newworld, and i have not seen anywhere that says that yaboot
> won't work on it. perhaps you are finding some old docs from back
> before yaboot existed,
oh
about 2 quarters ago
i tried yaboot first
to boot the cd-installed-VineLinux
and came into '\' entering trouble
asked about it on the VineLinux-ML
and people told me that it's a faq
the answer they told me was to handle old-iMacs
in an oldworld way (=bootX)
nobody said about firmware updating
(maybe that one didn't exist?)
(or japanese-keyboard was no good < but i don't think this was it)
people with a belief
"it can act totally-newworld-ly"
is still a minority here
wait for the revolution!!!
but MY revolution will come out at my DAD's place
about a week later
in MY house am using iBook-Tangerine
have just finished the smallest install
used the hfs-partition (kept for mac<>linux file exchangings)
to do the option-key-boot-ings
> > i mean using the magicboot thing
>
> the old spacebar script? this is obsolete, use ybin.
excuse me that i don't have enough info on this
but am keeping this virtual mac-os kind of thing
on that partition
since i installed VineLinux
it's to let the option-key-booting recognize the linux-booting place
(i can even choose that partition via the mac's control-panel)
am wondering if this is as dangerous as bootXing
what i have at that partition are:
a "System Folder" with
"Finder","magicboot","System"(empty-suitcase),"yaboot-0.9","yaboot.conf" inside..
outside the folder is
"linux"(kernel for installing),"root.bin"
and a folder (i named) "debian"
with has "base2_2.tgz","drivers.tgz",folders to keep the downloaded .deb-files...
.etc...inside
"magicboot" over here is:
creater-type=chrp
file-type=tbxi
"yaboot.conf" is:
--- from here ---
init-message = "\nWelcome to Linux\nHit <TAB> for boot options."
timeout = 250
default = linux
image=hd:12,vmlinux
label=linux
root=/dev/hda12
append = " video=video=aty128fb:vmode:12,cmode:16"
image=hd:13,linux
label=install
initrd=hd:13,root.bin
initrd-size=8192
append = " video=offb"
--- to here ---
and it looks like
things are working ok
so
is this what
> you need a Apple_Bootstrap partition.
means?
> use ybin
mmm?
that's another new thing to me
have to search for infomation related to that
didn't choose the spacebar-way
because PRam-clearings forces me to reset things again
"ybin" can get rid of that aspect of "spacebar"-bootings?
anyway
thank you
PS.
> windowmaker doesn't handle 16 bit color correctly on big endian
> hardware as i understand it. use 24 bit color instead and windowmaker
> will be fine.
oops
this windowmaker trouble was to finally make me to hold a policy
"will be a midnight-commander...
will turn my iBook into a prompt only DJ machine!
materials&java-oriented!!"
but now
beginning to think
"mmm...if i could play Flash-files on X .... that might be useful..."
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