On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:13:06PM -0600, Jake R. Johnson wrote: > I am just starting on a G4 and they seem fairly fast but I hate that you > can't boot to a floppy for kernels and such. Is there anyone that has a > recompiled 2.4 kernel with usb mouse support? >
debian-powerpc is a much better list for these questions, there is not many powerpc people on -user. however i happen to be one of those few. the debian potato r2 CDs are bootable on G4s. and the debian kernel (found where powerpc bootfloppies are) is also G4 bootable. i highly reccommend getting a bootable CD though its much simpler to install debian that way. but you can get the linux kernel from debian's disks-powerpc and boot it via yaboot using root.bin as the initrd to get to the installer. read the debian r2 install docs as well as my partitioning guide and yaboot-faq at http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc/ or http://www.penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc/ also BenH's precompiled kernels (which are currently outdated, use debian's, or stock 2.2.18) are at http://www.penguinppc.org/~benh/ -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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