Re: Debian on an iBook

[Curtis Vaughan <curtis@npc-usa.com>]

Yeh, I agree that Fink is over-rated. I've used it and find it 
frustrating.  In fact, for whatever reason, running KDE under fink will 
eventually just drag my system down to a near stop.  I then have to 
close it and restart it.  

Here's a site I found.

http://mij.oltrelinux.com/ibook/step_step/index.html

Gilger.John wrote:

> Fink is highly over-rated (as is OSX). I am running Debian on a Ti PowerBook. Here are a couple of install guides: http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html
>
> http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/titanium/
>
> HTH
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Hickstein [mailto:jxh@jxh.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 01:41 PM
> To: curtis@npc-usa.com
> Cc: Debian User List
> Subject: Re: Debian on an iBook 
>
>
> I haven't tried this yet, but depending on your motivations you might want 
> to know about Fink (fink.sourceforge.net), which ports Debian's apt system 
> to MacOS X.  Would that Fink got as much energy devoted to it as Debian 
> generally....
>
> --On Thursday, November 14, 2002 12:57:18 -0800 Curtis Vaughan 
> <curtis@npc-usa.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
> > I was wondering whether anyone has been able to successfully install
> > Debian on an iBook. What problems were there?  And have you been able to
> > have it set up for dual boot between Debian linux and OS X?
> >
> > Curtis
> >
> >
> >