}
} Not intentionally meant to not run on your machine.  I

I think I understand..... too many negatives there. :-)

} I've addressed the text-mode "magic" error, so that
} should go away in the next ISO.

Maybe I'll try that one.

}
} FWIW, on the 7600, I uncheck both of the BootX boxes for altering the
} video settings (Force Video, NoVideo), and don't specify any kernel
} arguments, using the 2.4 kernel (plain vmlinux, all.gz), and I can get
} the graphical installer to come up in a usable mode.

I tried anything and everything again last night, including your 7600 suggestion.
Still no joy.  I decided to cross my eyes and work with the gui that
I had.  Still managed to format a partition I didn't want to. I couldn't
make out the icons. I got as far as the actual installation of packages
when I got a runtime error in the perl script.  I couldn't read the error
message because my eyes became uncrossed X-).

I guess I'll wait until beta3.  I'll keep my eyes out for it.

Until then, I just want to say a general thanks to Stew who seems
to be doing most of the support and work of the PPC port.  PPC/Linux
could use more folks like him.

Cheers,
Aaron



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