I recently tried installing Sarge via the netinst image (file date 2003-10-08) on my 900 MHz G3 iBook. Some comments: 1) When I wasn't connected to the network, dhcp took a long time to time out. In the meantime, nothing was displayed on the screen. This should be changed: at least a message "Trying to gain an IP address. Please plug in an ethernet cable" would have helped. 2) After first set-up, I was dumped into pfdisk. No problem, as I then partitioned the free space on my disk into various bits for Linux. However, later I was asked to "Automatically partition my disk." This seems counter-productive - I want to keep OS X on my machine - so I answered no. However, apparently kernel install depends on having run the automatic partition (or something else, which failed.) I tried re-running installation of base, and debootstrap returned an error code. I guess it's not idempotent; however, after that I was utterly unable to proceed. I gave up and went back into OS X.
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