Hello Rick, Are you still planning to work on the manual for Macs? If so, could you take a look at the text below, it looks like a very useful text to be included in the Mac-versions of the manual.
I think the text needs a little bit of polish (especially the use of 'namely' in the last sentence). Cheers, Frans On Wednesday 07 April 2004 11:11, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > Aside from the technicals, I strongly believe that a note/help text > should be given to the users as to *what* exactly is a NewWorld boot > partition, and a NewWorld powermac in general. I know quite a few mac > users that would just stare at the screen at this point... > > Something along the lines: > "With regard to their low-level handling of the boot process, > PowerMacs have been split into two categories, OldWorld and NewWorld. > OldWorld are Macs or Mac-clones that used programs such as quik to > boot Linux from their OpenFirmware (OF), with limited capabilities in > that. The last OldWorld Mac series was the Beige G3. > NewWorld Macs however, starting from the Blue & White G3, have had > some significant changes to their OF, offering more flexibility but > requiring new tools for booting. The new tools are namely yaboot and > miboot." > > Just a suggestion, I probably forgot something but I declare this text > as GPL so feel free to add/modify... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
