On 8/07/2004, at 5:56 PM, 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.
Colin, the 'Varsity Mac Guru is coming.This brings to mind two things:
1. Who has experience with installing on a mac? Your experience would be
valued.
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 haveI'd go with YDL for the first try and have Gentoo in reserve. It is possible
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.
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.
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Hmmm, I have used Mac OS X as my main OS for the last 2 years (about the time I got fed up with Windows and decided to switch to Unix :), and there has been only one or two things that I wished I had Linux handy for, but countless times I was glad of Apples tight integration and reliability. My uptime is, like 2 months (and my machine is a laptop).
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Anyway, I could help with getting OpenOffice for Mac OS X on his machine.
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.
I have experience with Fink, X11, *nix programs on Mac OS X 10.2 and 10.3, and I use Open Office often. I have not yet upgraded to the recent 1.1.x release, and I am still using the old 1.0.x public release. Its pretty trivial to install.... Maybe someone could download the newer package and put it on a CD? Its less than 100MB I think, but I have dialup at home :(
-- 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.
