Hi! well maybe i'm turning 'surper-fluous-man' but anyway that was what is wildly said here in japan about the older iMacs > mac-oriented magazines probably think linux is a MacOS Application and > not an OS.
"MacLife"'s feb. issue is giving a special article + a cd to make people install "HolonLinux" and it tells us that people with iMacs made before Oct,1999 should use bootX > it is newworld, and i have not seen anywhere that says that yaboot > won't work on it. perhaps you are finding some old docs from back > before yaboot existed, oh about 2 quarters ago i tried yaboot first to boot the cd-installed-VineLinux and came into '\' entering trouble asked about it on the VineLinux-ML and people told me that it's a faq the answer they told me was to handle old-iMacs in an oldworld way (=bootX) nobody said about firmware updating (maybe that one didn't exist?) (or japanese-keyboard was no good < but i don't think this was it) people with a belief "it can act totally-newworld-ly" is still a minority here wait for the revolution!!! but MY revolution will come out at my DAD's place about a week later in MY house am using iBook-Tangerine have just finished the smallest install used the hfs-partition (kept for mac<>linux file exchangings) to do the option-key-boot-ings > > i mean using the magicboot thing > > the old spacebar script? this is obsolete, use ybin. excuse me that i don't have enough info on this but am keeping this virtual mac-os kind of thing on that partition since i installed VineLinux it's to let the option-key-booting recognize the linux-booting place (i can even choose that partition via the mac's control-panel) am wondering if this is as dangerous as bootXing what i have at that partition are: a "System Folder" with "Finder","magicboot","System"(empty-suitcase),"yaboot-0.9","yaboot.conf" inside.. outside the folder is "linux"(kernel for installing),"root.bin" and a folder (i named) "debian" with has "base2_2.tgz","drivers.tgz",folders to keep the downloaded .deb-files... .etc...inside "magicboot" over here is: creater-type=chrp file-type=tbxi "yaboot.conf" is: --- from here --- init-message = "\nWelcome to Linux\nHit <TAB> for boot options." timeout = 250 default = linux image=hd:12,vmlinux label=linux root=/dev/hda12 append = " video=video=aty128fb:vmode:12,cmode:16" image=hd:13,linux label=install initrd=hd:13,root.bin initrd-size=8192 append = " video=offb" --- to here --- and it looks like things are working ok so is this what > you need a Apple_Bootstrap partition. means? > use ybin mmm? that's another new thing to me have to search for infomation related to that didn't choose the spacebar-way because PRam-clearings forces me to reset things again "ybin" can get rid of that aspect of "spacebar"-bootings? anyway thank you PS. > windowmaker doesn't handle 16 bit color correctly on big endian > hardware as i understand it. use 24 bit color instead and windowmaker > will be fine. oops this windowmaker trouble was to finally make me to hold a policy "will be a midnight-commander... will turn my iBook into a prompt only DJ machine! materials&java-oriented!!" but now beginning to think "mmm...if i could play Flash-files on X .... that might be useful..." BUYO-BUYO-IGOR------------------ http://i.am/buyobuyo mp3s: http://thismusic.ispopular.com
