On Thursday 08 July 2004 13:12, Nick Rout wrote: > Posting this to the both lists in an effort to catch the right people. I have read / skimmed the whole thread. Sorry I have been out this afternoon.
> There are at least two registrations for Mac's at the installfest. One of them - the ibook - got stolen and we won't therefore be installing on it. > This brings to mind two things: > > 1. Who has experience with installing on a mac? Your experience would be > valued. Colin, the 'Varsity Mac Guru is coming. The owner of the other machine is bringing his beehive + floating screen G4(?) at approx 10:30. So if this would not be ok with Colin please could somewone let him know. 'Phone # in Database. Thogether I'm sure Colin & I will be able to come up with a suitable solution. > 2. What distro? Yellowdog, Mandrake, Debian and Gentoo are known to have > ppc versions. Gentoo is probably out for logistical reasons. Debian has > been discounted for the x86 installs and the same may go for ppc, I do > not know. Google on suse ppc reveals that there may be such a beast but > i can't find out much about it, let alone a download source. I'd go with YDL for the first try and have Gentoo in reserve. It is possible to do a Gentoo binary only install from the CDs relatively :-) quickly. I would not bother with the other offerings. Currently , the machine is fully backed up and is partitioned into 2 partitions. We will presumably have to re-do the second partition for linux. The primary desire is to have an Office system which is free of cost. There is OpenOfficeOrg for OS X. The owner did not know about this and I think that it would be a good step in the right direction, but a full Linux install is what is desired. He is a retired gentleman and wants to have an extended play with free software. I explained that installing Linux on a MAC was a bit close to the frontiers of science for us and that what we are able to do all depended on how busy we are on the day. So we need to get .iso images of YDL. 3 disks. Nearest mirror planet mirror is in Aust. Anybody got the disks already? ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/yellowdog/yellowdog-3.0.1/iso Gentoo for PPC is mirrored on JetstreamGames. ftp://ftp2.jetstreamgames.co.nz/gentoo/releases/ppc/2004.1/livecd/install-ppc-universal-2004.1.iso ftp://ftp2.jetstreamgames.co.nz/gentoo/releases/ppc/2004.1/packagecd/ Another option is to tell him about Fink and to make sure the Apple X-11 server is installed and set up. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
