On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 23:44:58 -0500, Derrik Pates composed: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:36:06AM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> As I said in my e-mail previously, he has a choice of 3 boot loaders for > Linux on a NuBus system, though not all bootloaders work equally well on > all NuBus systems (as I noted, the 6100 _only_ likes MKLinux Booter, > hangs with all others). Don't know about if BootX or miBoot will work on > the 7100, but I'd go for BootX for simplicity - Apple's MKLinux booter > is not a model of "happy-fun-pointy-clicky" GUI-ness, in fact most of > its settings are in a _text file_. This didn't bother me, but this poor > guy barely knows Linux at all - getting a distro like Debian on a > well-supported NewWorld can be occasionally trying. Installing it on a > NuBus system can be a bear. (Besides the fact that the kernel is at best > sporadically maintained for them.) yeh no kidding. and an OldWorld PCI box is somewhat in bewteen i guess: more b0rken OF, and yaboot doesn't work on them (yet). and i can quite understand the rather abrupt change of interface/OS coming straight from macos into debian, heh (the ride's been great so far :D). simon > -- > Derrik Pates > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* |UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are.| *-----------------------------------------------------------------* | ,''`. http://www.debian.org/ | http://www.nuit.ca/ | | : :' : Debian GNU/Linux | http://simonraven.nuit.ca/ | | `. `' | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `- | PGP key: 3744 810B 50F5 187E | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
