Re: Re: PowerBook G4 12inch

[pascal.gagnon]

> 
> De: Stuart Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2003/10/23 jeu. PM 11:59:39 GMT-04:00
> À: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: PowerBook G4 12inch
> 
> No I haven't checked them out. To be honest with you, I didn't actually 
> know that they existed. I'm just taking a look through them now.
> 
> Thanks heaps.
> Stu :-)
> 
> 
> On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 07:19 PM, 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.

For the text install (the only one that has ever works on my ibook 366) use:
install-gui-benh text

You can then almost normally, ie you may have some problem if you choose a custom 
partition format (just reboot and restart) and no individual package selection, just 
the basic categories ( use rpmdrake-remove after all)

Tadam, magica.

Pascal


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.
> >
> > "graphics=nvidia" isn't really a valid argument to pass.  It expects
> > something like "video=", perhaps "video=nv" or "video=fbdev".
> >
> > I would probably also use the benh kernel.
> >
> > I thought there was a thread on installs on the 12", but I could be
> > mistaken.  Have you checked the list archives at:
> >
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2
> >
> > -- 
> >
> > Stew Benedict
> >
> > --
> > MandrakeSoft
> >
> 
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