On Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14.06, Bruce Smith wrote: > I'm the guy who was asking about the broken trackpads on powerbooks. > I ordered a new 1.5GHz/15" powerbook yesterday, so I'll see for myself! > :-) > > Let me say that I'm a LONG time Linux user, but I'm completely new to > PPC hardware, Mac OSX, and Linux on anything except x86. > > I downloaded PPC ISO's for YDL 4.0, Mandrake 10.1 and Ubuntu to try > when my new powerbook arrives. I want to dual boot OSX & Linux. > Is the best plan to immediately reinstall OSX, leaving free HDD space > for Linux? Or is it possible to shrink the preinstalled OSX partition?
I would go for the first way. It's sure to work. Resizing hfs has given mixed results for me so far - usually ending in reinstalling anyway, with or without loosing files. > I'm aware that the airport extreme card is not supported, so what are > my other options to get wireless working? Are any USB wireless NIC's > supported (which ones?). I've got a netgear MA111 to work both on a PowerBook (OS X) and a Thinkpad (Linux). It should be possible on a PPC with Linux, but ynot out of the box. You'll probably have to compile some stuff and a new kernel. > What about PCMCIA wireless NIC's? I have > an old Orinoco silver which worked fine under x86 Linux, any chance it'll > work under PPC Linux? Might - but there is no pcmcia on modern Apples > Modems, same question. USB? PCMCIA? > > Any other hardware problems I might run into? I can live without sleep > mode, and I can live without sound if I have to. > > FWIW, the reason I'm buying a new PPC laptop instead of an x86 is > because I figured I'm going to dual boot whatever laptop I buy with Linux, > and what I've heard about OSX sounds much better than what I know > about XP.... (and I never use XP on my current x86 laptop) > > Thanks!!! Bruce. If only Apple would not use touchpads, or at least touchpads with TWO buttons. This one drives me mad: they have an OS that NEEDS two buttons but they don't want to admit it :( Thierry -- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" - Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
