On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 10:34:14AM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > Are the boot disks going to be "ready" for the upcoming relesae of > powerpc-potato in February (it is still February isn't it ?) ?
Looks like it. > Is Yaboot required ? I assume this is the equivalent of lilo on a x86 > machine. > Do I "have" to allocate a 800KB HFS partition on my hard disk ? Booting is still up in the air. Probably the more reliable ways of booting will want the HFS partition - yaboot and miBoot look good for macos-free alternatives. I'm tempted to dump Quik entirely. > I've installed Debian-2.1 on an intel machine once. All I needed was a > boot disk and the base*tgz file. Will it be exactly the same for a > powerpc machine ? Probably not. We may or may not have bootable CDs; depends how well yaboot and miBoot are coming, and whether I or someone else has time to make it work. We'll have a ramdisk that can be started from an existing macos install. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
