That will work. I did it to mine as well. Make sure that when the installer asks you if you want to install additional packages, you don't select anything! It makes the transition easier.
Also, there are a few libraries in the Ubuntu repository that want the 2.6 kernel (GLIBC I believe). If you try to install them, it will fail to install properly. If you use the latest one from Debian's unstable or testing repository, it will install because Debian doesn't depend on 2.6. However, lots of things that use libpthreads in C will complain that the version of GLIBC isn't correct (they actually complain it's not the right version, even though it's more recent). Has anyone else had this problem? It mainly shows up if you install Gnome or KDE. Granted, both are slow on an old PB 1400 with 64 MB ram. --Guy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vito Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 4:29 PM To: nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches Thx Peter, I'll give this a try but I am a little primitive in my linux knowhow. Vito ----- Original Message ---- From: Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:44:37 PM Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay hotplug patches I was able to install Ubuntu a while back, by first doing a minimal debian install, and then changing the repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list from Debian to Ubuntu repositories. After an apt-get dist-upgrade my pb1400cs had Ubuntu Breezy installed. Peter > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Hi Vito, > > you can only install distributions that support the 2.4 kernel. > So knoppix will not work. > As far as I know Suse does no longer support the PowerPC and I don't > know where to get CD images from. > On the mailing list was a report of a successful install of Ubuntu > 4.10 (Warty Warthog). > > Tobias > > > > Am 28.02.2006 um 18:11 schrieb Vito: > > Has anyone out there gotten knoppix, Suse or Ubuntu working on > the nubus machines with the current miboot image that tobias, > Daniel, Florian and others have worked on? For those of us > less savy in the linux world - those distributions are > appealing, as they leave some things less to chance (the > chance of someone like me breaking the system) while providing > a great selection of programs, with autodetect and automount > already in place. > > Vito > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Vito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:56:43 AM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay > hotplug patches > > thx again > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Florian Boelstler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 2:51:56 AM > Subject: Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Re: Kernel 2.4.30 + MediaBay > hotplug patches > > > > Guy Paddock wrote: > I had the problem of it either hanging or powering-off > during startup > recovery too. I have found that the only work-around > is to boot from the > installer and run mount. > > I usually boot the Debian installer, choose to load the > installer > components from the CD (this implies that ext2fs-utils are > loaded) and > then switch to a shell. > > Then I manually invoke the repair process: > fsck.ext3 /dev/discs/... > ^^ > To be replaced by your root partition. > > Good luck, > > Florian > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking > scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. 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