Hi. I'll be ordering a firewire ibook sometime tomorrow. It would be nice to be able to run linux on it as well as MacOS, although I'll primarily be using it for MacOS.
Anyway, my main questions are: * Where are the CD images? I couldn't find them at "ftp.debian.org". Is there a chance modification will be needed in order to run on the new ibooks? I noticed earlier on the mailing list (I'm on the list, I'm far from caught up, but I've been reading through the archives) that the preferred method for booting is yaboot, and the CD uses yaboot to boot, but there's a file in there with some notes regarding which machines are compatible. I guess that would be the first problem. * What version of X comes with that CD? Should I switch to another version, and will this cause problems with any of the software currently in potato or woody? * Should I upgrade my kernel? Do any of the kernels support this iBook yet? * Perhaps I should just wait a month or so? * Regarding the partition map: After the driver/patch partitions, I was going to have: 1 Meg ybin partition 1 Meg probable OSX bootloader partition (I don't know the details about it, but I figure I should leave a free partition there just in case). Then 4 linux partitions: 250 meg / 2500 meg /usr 1000 meg /home 128 meg swap Then 3 MacOS partitions: 5000 meg HFS+ 1125 HFS (mainly as storage area for CD images and file exchange with Linux) 10 gig HFS+ (video data). (In case you're wondering, I'm getting the 20 gig HD). Does that partition setup look OK to everyone here? I'll be putting an hfs+ placeholder partition in place of all of those when installing MacOS, as per regular installation instructions. Given about 5 Gig to play with for laying out Linux on this thing, do y'all have any suggestions? Should I have a separate /usr/local? What about /tmp and /var? (Do I want to run a newserver on a laptop? probably not...) Finally, about a mac I already have debian on: * I'm away from my mac at work, but when I installed debian on it a long while ago, the upgrade process was tortuous. I eventually wound up with the modules in a different place than they're supposed to go, I thing, or the modutils in a different place. I get error messages while booting up about it. Is it worth the trouble to fix this problem or track down the cause? The main symptom seems to be that printing and sound doesn't really work; it's an old Starmax 5000, so I'm not really expecting much. The thing is, it's buggy, but it works, should I bother trying to fix it? Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
