On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 01:46:06PM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: >On Mar 3, 2013, at 7:03 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >>Gah. Looking further, at the moment I don't see how (if at all) the >>powerpc boot stuff passes through any of the kernel boot options to >>specify a default task. Rick, what happens if you try with kde CD#1 >>right now? Does it actually do KDE, or does it still default to Gnome? >> >>I'm glad you're thinking of things here, it's been a while since we've >>had many people interested in ppc stuff like this! :-) > >I'll try it. > >Just to be clear -- What you want me to do is download and burn the >RC1 KDE CD#1 install CD. > >Boot it. > >Take the default "install" option at the "boot:" prompt. > >Look at the /proc/cmdline from a text console during the install >process. > >Wait til it gets to running tasksel. > >Leave "desktop task" checked. > >Watch and see what desktop it installs. > >Report back here. > > Right?
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