On (15/10/03 18:01), Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 at 22:33 GMT, Clive Menzies penned: > > It is worth reviewing the archive for [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Speaking of which, http://www.debian.org/ports/ lists the motorola 68k > as the second-most popular debian-port, then later down the list > mentions the powerpc. Both mention Macs. Are all modern Macs > powerpc, or do I need to look at the specs to know what I need? Ron Johnson has already answered this.
> > > You will find most of the information you're looking for. > > > > I'm dual booting a G4 (not TiBook) and it works well but I've still > > not configured everything. Ben Herrenschmidt builds bleeding edge > > kernels to handle many of the Tibook idiosyncracies. You might also > > be interested to try OSX which is impressive although I did manage to > > break it (don't ask ;) > > Don't ask?? Sure, bring up something like that and then forbid me from > asking ... It was to do with when I first installed OSX I didn't have a network and was unfamiliar with the concept of users and configured the user with not much thought. Later after setting up a network (with Debian servers) I found that the user schema required a change to the user identity in OSX. There is a GUI facility to change user permissions in OSX which is extremely flakey and in attempting to change ownership and permissions, I managed to make a huge horlicks of it. It was ultimately resolved by creating a root account on the system and using chmod and chown. - you asked ;) > Did you "not configure everything" as in you just haven't bothered, or > as in it's a royal pain and it's not worth it? The stuff I haven't got around to is non-essential (ie. for my work) and because I have the option to boot into OSX it has slowed the process of "getting my act together". In summary, I am learning this stuff as I go along and every piece of configuration constitutes a challenge/project of some proportions (I have little experience of most of this stuff). That said I boot into OSX very seldom these days. So what remains to be done is sound, compiling a new kernel to deal with extra memory, and stuff like video, scanning etc. HTH Clive -- http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]