On Dec 4, 2005, at 22:02, Yersinia wrote:
Mark writes,
<You will need MAC 9 to boot YDL so you don't _need_ the extra drive.
That is twice the RAM I have on my desktop G3 & it can only help.>
I just want to keep my Linux stuff well separated from my main HD,
which
I don't want to have to rebuild (my research of today indicated
that a HD
with YDL has to have three partitions on it, and my main HD is all one
partition, which is how I like it). So I figured I'd put the second
HD in
my G3 and partition it specifically for the Linux, although if I do
have
to use OS 9 in order to boot the Linux, I can install that on there
also.
I actually saved instructions for it.
However, it's going to be awhile before I can do any of this, after
all.
Google misled me to think that I could download YDL free -- from
the link
ftp.yellowdoglinux.com -- and instead of an actual ISO for YDL 2.3,
I got
something that said it was the ISO but turned out to be only 4K --
and I
can't find anything else. My boyfriend, who is really a Linux man
(even
if he's my Mac computer surgeon), says that no way could that 4K thing
have been the actual ISO, and on top of that...being on a 56K dialup
connection, even if I did find it, it would take a week for me to
download it, and I'd be lucky if it didn't get corrupted along the
way.
His advice: get one of our mutual friends (who has DSL) to download
the
ISO for me and burn it to CD.
He also suggested I might like Ubuntu Linux -- I still need to Google
about that (even if I have to wait till my friend can download any
ISOs
for me), but do you have any knowledge of/experience with Ubuntu as
compared to YDL?
Thanks again!
~Yersinia.
Ubuntu uses the same boot loader as YDL. They will send you in the
mail, for free, a "Live" disk that boots and lets you try it out and
also a regular installer CD. It takes about a month to get the
disks, but might be worth a look.
Daevad
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