On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 17:56, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > 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/ >
YDL seems to be the best bet. Chris I will start on cd 1 and move forwards. you start from cd 3 and work backwards. once you have finished 3 let me know and we will decide who does 2. > Another option is to tell him about Fink and to make sure the Apple X-11 > server is installed and set up.
