Hello! I'm new as well but doing it since halfe a year, so lets try: On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 06:03:13PM +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > we managed yesterday to install potato base (2.2 r3) on a really > stubborn slot-in iMac. Several things still need to be fixed. Congrets! > > Possibly the questions are answered in a FAQ doc or a HOWTO. In that > case (or perhaps for other cases) please just tell me the best PPC/Mac > specific URLs to look at. www.penguinppc.org www.linuxppc.org www.xfree.org
> > These are the things to be addressed: > > The console is cut off at the left margin. So it is not possible to see > the prompt. How to fix this? You can fix this in the XF86Config in the monitor-section (A good and short explanation concerning XF86Config you can find in M. Kofler, Linux; but I'm shure there is something on xfree.org) > At the moment the keyboard is set to US, but sure I would prefer the > key settings to correspond to what is written on the keyboard (German > standard) instead of searching for slash, backslash or @ all the > time. Unfortunately no option for German key settings was offered during > install. kbdconfig on konsole Keyboard-Section in XF86Config > > > Perhaps a comment on the base install procedure: > > We needed quite a while to install potato on the iMac. Basically the > problem seems to be incorporated in mac-fdisk. It partitioned the > harddisk according to the needs, but afterwards the install script could > not initialize and activate those partitions (We used option C to do > so). In the end we used "Laufwerke konfigurieren" (the MacOS tool) to > partition the harddisk. From that point on it worked out. > Look at http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson Basically you have to create a boot-partitio with the "type" bootstrap with mac-fdisk -C. Search also the archives of this list they are of great value! I hope this helps a little -- mfg Georg Koss mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
