Re: Curious about PPC
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 03:22:25PM +0200, jtv wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 09:04:44AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote:
> >
> > The only thing I think was a major pain was dealing with yaboot/ybin. It's
> > scary setting a dual-boot system and playing with OF like that. I wish there
> > was a MacOS applescript (or something written in python! [2]) to make the
> > necessary adjustments on the Mac side before you attempt to boot into Linux
> > the first time...
>
> IIRC the potato docs were slightly faulty on the yaboot front, but I was
> too confused at the time to be able to take coherent notes. OTOH, now
> that I have it, I find that a die-hard MacOS-using friend is interested
> in using yaboot _without_ a non-Apple OS. I guess that makes sense
> because its boot menu also lets you boot from CD, choose between MacOS 9
> and OS X, or go into the Open Firmware console.
Woody is much smoother than potato on the installation, now that most of
the bugs were driven into hiding places. However, base-config will still
install a 'stable' sources.list, until woody is officially released. So
watch out for that one.
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| debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> |
| Chris Tillman tillman@voicetrak.com |
| May the Source be with you |
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