Re: Problems installing PPC 8.0 on PowerBook G3 (New World/400/128M/6GB/DVD)

[Ben Reser]

On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 05:29:13PM -0700, Sean Fay wrote:
> Ok I am going to "bite the bullet" and get the cd's ... but I would like to
> know if I can just run Mandrake and not MacOS?? Is that possible on the "new
> world" macs?

Yes because they use yaboot.  yaboot only uses Open Firmware to boot vs.
BootX which was really just a system extension for the MacOS that loaded
Linux.

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