On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:19:14PM +0100, Otto wrote: > hi all, > > I am currently running LinuxPPC, MacOS X and MacOS 9.04 on my pismo and > would like to give debian-ppc a try. > > so if anyone out there is happily using debian-ppc on their pismo, please > let me know! otherwise, if you had trouble getting it to run, please save me > some time and drop me a line, too. maybe I can even help you out..?
debian runs fine on the pismo.
> I used ybin/yaboot to set up my boot configuration (works great). right now,
> I have the following partitions:
>
> 1 HFS bootstrap
> 1 HFS+ MacOS 9.04
> 1 HFS+ MacOS X
> 1 ext2 LinuxPPC
> 1 swap
> 1 HFS shared data
>
> for debian, I would like to convert the shared data partition to ext2 and
> use my swap partition for both debian and LinuxPPC.
> that way, I would only have to add an entry for debian in my yaboot conf -
> right?
yes, something like this:
image=/vmlinux
label=debian
root=/dev/hda7
read-only
partition=7
this assumes that the debian partition is /dev/hda7, that partiton=
line must point at the debian root partition, you linuxppc images must have
a partition line pointing at the linuxppc root partition.
note that you *must* change the partition type of that HFS exchange if
you choose to use it for debian instead of as a HFS exchange.
otherwise MacOS will try and mount it as HFS, see there is no HFS
filesystem and helpfully offer to erase it.
> as the debian-ppc port is quite new, are there any known problems I should
> know about?
debian-ppc was first released with potato aka debian 2.2. which has
been out for several monthes now. debian-ppc has existed far longer
then that though. it is very stable. (the most stable and well made
of all the [ppc] distros IMO.
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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