Re: PowerBook G4 12inch

[Craig Miller]

Stew Benedict wrote:

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-1] Stuart Guthrie wrote:

 

Hi Stew,

My name is Stuart Guthrie and I'm subscribed to the PPC Mandrake Linux mailing list. I've been having a lot of problems installing Mandrake linux on my 12" PowerBook for some strange reason. I've tried doing it in text mode however there are incompatibilities with my keyboard (or something like that) because I'm unable to select the "I accept" button on the license agreement. Do you by any chance know of anyway that I can bypass this and simply install Linux? I do agree with all of the terms presented in the text. Also I have tried to boot into the old graphics installer by going

install-gui gui-old graphics=nvidia (geforce 420go) 

however once everything starts up it is all unclear and fuzzy. What can I do?

Sorry to hassle you.
Yours truly,
STuart Guthrie

   

No hassle, that's why I'm here :)

So TAB doesn't allow you to move from field to field in the text install?

I suspect if you can't get past accepting the license, you'll have 
additional problems, because there are several screen in the install that 
will require you to move about the screen, in particular disk 
partitioning.

Perhaps I am out in left field, but I had a similar problem with Suse 
PPC a while back, and it was a keyboard mapping problem. The situation 
was a little different in that I was able to install, but unable to use 
the system once it was booted (the mapping of the keyboard was _way_ 
bad, and I couldn't even log in).

Perhaps Stuart should select a different keyboard (assuming he is 
getting that far) initially.

I hope this helps,

Craig...