On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 12:32:02PM -0500, Philippe wrote: > Hello Ethan and everyone! > > potato is up and running on my iMac G3! Ethan's webpages were immensely > useful. especially the detailed file on using mac-fdisk for partitioning. > (It took about 6 hours of fussing around, so that's not too bad, is it?) > What follows might be just an esthetic question (since I'm able to boot to > either Debian or MAC OS with the "option" key reboot), and perhaps not > (should I want something cleaner???): > (1) I'm using yaboot version 6. This > is what was on the vendor CDs. I'm afraid to use the menu_ofboot.b file, > even though the bug looks like it's been fixed (actually I tried it, and I > couldn't reboot onto linux, which is no fun!!!). So via MAC OS, I put > ybin-0.16.tar.gz on a > floppy. But, I'm unable to mount the floppy from linux. What's the command > line??? (mount is telling me to use insmod, but that's not working either) > (2) in any event, should I install ybin-0.16 to avoid eventual problems? > ... I'm still writing to you from MAC OS, I have no clue how to get > started with PPP (e.g. to download ybin), emacs is running, but I don't > know how to get X11 working. you should not have to install ybin yourself, if you used recent boot floppies its in the base system (in package yaboot) and yes menu_ofboot.b is fine in 0.16, you just have to adjust the OpenFirmware paths to match your system (usually just change the X to the right partition numbers. to mount an HFS floppy run: mount -t hfs /dev/fd0 /floppy if for some reason you don't have kmod (from your above message) run insmod hfs > thanks a lot! > > Philip > -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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