--
Seriously, the way I did this was by using a special /sbin/loader binary
with debugging hooks that I made ("dd" is your friend: binary editors
are for wimps).
-- Linus Torvalds, in an article on a dnserver
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On Tuesday 03 June 2003 11:24 am, Ben Barrett wrote:
: Well, if I had a PPC machine I would. It looks like someone at OSU is
: behind this:
: http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/releases/ppc/livecd/1.4_rc7/
: http://www.gentoo.org/images/shots/ppc-livecd/snapshot1.jpg
: and obligatory source of continued bbbanter:
: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1625222&mode=thread&tid=1
:06&tid=185
:
: So... OS X users out there: what advantage would you see to running
: pure OS X instead of the very-efficient OS X in-a-window via Mac on
: Linux as shown in the screenshot linked above? It strikes me that it
: would be annoying to not have the dock on the bottom of the screen;
: maybe the OS X window session can be fullscreened on one of the virtual
: desktops?? Nice work!
:
: regards,
:
: BB
:
: PS - I guess all the redhat support is too busy with their loyal
: corporate backers to help on the mailing list... no really, I do think
: it is good to try many distro's. I haven't tried enough, myself.
: Is anyone booting four or more OSes on one machine?
Not any more, but ive had 6 on one hard disk. to simplify things I limit
myself to 3 distro's to keep from having to use exteneded partitons (this is
where things can get really messy).
Jamie
:
:
: On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 18:16:07 -0700
:
: Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: | BAGGAB wrote:
: | > Maybe I should be considering another disrto. I've tried Mandrake
: | > and koppix, but I hear a lot of good buzz about Gentoo.
: |
: | I would say that Gentoo is for experts only at this point. (Maybe for
: | a long time.) Only install Gentoo if you understand another distro or
: | two inside and out. I second Kent's suggestion about starting from
: | KNOPPIX and doing a hard disk install if you like it. (But I'm
: | already known as a KNOPPIX zealot, so pay me no mind.)
: |
: | By the way, Brian, you asked for a second opinion, so I also say
: | there's nothing wrong with running ppp (what kppp uses) as root. It
: | has to be that way. Other distributions run it as root too, whether
: | or not they make you type your root password.
: |
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