On Sunday 24 February 2002 20:26, you wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Michael G. Bekowitz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I had no problems installing the 8.2b1 on a g4 Cube. I am a complete > > linux newbie. I tried yellow dog 2.1 which would could not see my cdrom > > so I had to use an older kernel supplied with 2.1. It installed but X > > was screwed up. I fixed it but was not happy so I wanted to try > > mandrake 8.2b1. > > > > 8.2b1 installed great without a hitch. It supports my vid card and kde > > seems to function fine. The only quirks with the install were that I > > had to fix the boot ldr by restarting it and hitting "command option O > > F" and then typing "setenv boot-device hd:12,11:tbxi" which was told to > > me by a popup message - nice:) > > > > I have only fooled around with ftp and mozilla but so far it works > > great. > > Great - welcome aboard! The installer tries to set the OF boot-device, > but for some reason it doesn't always take on all machines, so I opted to > include the message as a "heads up". > > Stew Benedict
Stew: Looks like it's working ok on one computer at least ;) -- ________________________________________________ Olivier Reisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] TuxPPC Site Director http://www.tuxppc.org The number one user resource for Linux on PPC. For safe mail, get my PGP Key: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/olivier.reisch/oreisch_public_key.gpg ________________________________________________
