Re: PowerBook G4 12inch

2003-10-23 Thread John G. Cole
I had a thread on the list about my installation on a 12" g4 powerbook -- but unfortunately the post that I made after I had solved most of the problems did not end up on the archive -- here is the relevant section -- which I think will also solve the tab problem from June 2003 post: just an u

Re: Boot Problems on Powerbook G4

2003-06-30 Thread John G. Cole
is it possible that the benh kernel was not installed Quite possible. It doesn't install automatically, and in text mode, even if you explicitily select a package, it doesn't install. If you check the list archives, there are various workarounds. If I understand the situation correctly, res

Boot Problems on Powerbook G4

2003-06-27 Thread John G. Cole
I could not get Mandrake 9.1 PPC to install on my 12" Powerbook G4 (NVIDIA GeForce4) using any of the gui setups. When I went to install-text the installation failed with a keyboard ioctl error (early in the installation). When I installed with install-gui-benh text the installation seemed to