----- Original Message ----- From: "David J. Roundy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 5:41 PM Subject: Re: new installation - Next step !
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:09:27PM +0200, Bruno Waes wrote: > > > > but i still dont get it how i can boot an installation system with bootx ? > > You just set up the bootx extension, which runs at startup. You can > configure it to by default boot to linux (after 10 seconds or whatever). > So whenever you restart your machine, it starts up MacOS, then the first > thing it does is load BootX. BootX then waits for 10 seconds to see if you > really wanted MacOS after all, and then boots linux. > > BootX actually includes two programs, the system extension, and an > application which you can run after you've already booted up MacOS, to > switch to linux, which can be helpful in the install process. ok, that is nice and good, but ... i havnt installed linux yet on this machine and i dont find a way how to do it ... sigh bruno
