Re: preparing for an install

2002-10-15 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On another (vaguely related?) note, how good is the SMP support in the > > 2.4 kernel on PPC? And does Mac-on-Linux see both processors? I have used SMP kernels for my dual 533 and they seem to work fine. Two tuxes come up during booting; very cool.

Re: preparing for an install

2002-10-14 Thread Jim McLoughlin
I am preparing to install Debian on my dual-G4 system. I even have a spare partition I can put it on (I don't have any desire to get rid of MacOS or the various partitions I have made to deal with it). I was hoping to follow the instructions in http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html but it s

Re: preparing for an install

2002-10-14 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 14 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > The big problem I always had with that boot loader was the loong > wait while it searched for an Ethernet netboot image, if there is > none. I have the same problem. > I never really tried to use it to boot Linux; Well, it works with Lin

Re: preparing for an install

2002-10-14 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:47:56PM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > I am preparing to install Debian on my dual-G4 system. I even have a > spare partition I can put it on (I don't have any desire to get rid of > MacOS or the various partitions I have made to deal with it). I was > hoping to follow t

preparing for an install

2002-10-14 Thread Gregory Seidman
I am preparing to install Debian on my dual-G4 system. I even have a spare partition I can put it on (I don't have any desire to get rid of MacOS or the various partitions I have made to deal with it). I was hoping to follow the instructions in http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html but it se