William Ono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, folks. I received a handful of responses when I asked if anyone was > interested in a document about installing Debian over LinuxPPC, so I > decided to give it a try. I used the notes I took while doing this on my > iMac, so the instructions might be a little iMac-centric.
Hi. That's great that there is now a comprehensive page on installing Debian on a mac; all the instructions are clear and look correct (except the BootX-hd.jpg image is broken). It looks basically like the procedure I used on my power computing clone. There are a couple of things you may want to add: 1) a note about setting up X (i.e. copying and tweaking /usr/doc/xserver-common/examples/XF86Config.eg to /etc/X11/XF86Config) 2) installing Debian without having to pre-install LinuxPPC; if you don't have a CD or a fast network connection handy, the impatient may not want to download everything for the LinuxPPC install. You can actually install Debian with just BootX, kernel image, and a ramdisk from LinuxPPC. You give BootX a kernel argument of init=/bin/sh and then do a couple of hackery-things by hand to avoid the whole redhat install. Once complete there are only a couple of other things done different from your document. If you think #2 would be useful to some people, I'd be glad to write up the full procedure for you to include. -aaron -- Aaron Culich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://hampshire.edu/~alcF93/
