>>>>> "Logan" == Logan Airth <logan.ai...@gmail.com> writes:
> Good morning. I recently acquired a PowerBook G4 12" and I was thinking I finally installed Debian (testing) on my PB 12" G4 a few weeks ago. I followed the directions at http://philobsd.free.fr/Debian/branden.html for how to install without going through the trouble of burning a CD. It's very easy: basically place the yaboot and installer files in an HFS+ partition, then reboot into OpenFirmware and tell openfirmware to boot from those files. It went fairly smoothly, except for some problems due to my using LVM: the installer didn't realize that yaboot was not going to be able to read the kernel and initrd from the LVM /boot volume. So if you like to use LVM, just make sure that the /boot directory is not in an LVM partition. So basically, I ended up needing 1 HFS partition for yaboot, then 1 ext3 partition for /boot and another partition for LVM (subdivided at will). > Also it is not very clear what would be the best version of Debian to > install. Would it be better for me to install the Stable version or the > testing version? I like testing better: it's more uptodate, and you can upgrade any time, so your upgrades can be very small if you do them often. > And finally would there be any recommendations for alternatives to Debian? What else is there? Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
