Re: [SLUG] linux on ibook

2003-08-29 Thread Mehmet Yousouf
My question is has anyone compared YDL with a debianPPC install and what kind of results did you get? At heart I am a great debian fan, I run debian on my PC at work... Tried YDL, deb stable, testing, unstable and mandrake. I'm new to debian so I had problems with the install -

Re: [SLUG] linux on ibook

2003-08-28 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:25:27 +0800 Adam Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I got myself an ibook about 6 or 7 weeks ago and although originally I was thinking why would anyone want to install linux in this when OS X is so cool, and you can run X11 with Fink?...I am beginning to feel

RE: [SLUG] linux on ibook

2003-08-28 Thread Rowling, Jill
The main items I see with running a dual boot system (if that's what you are thinking of doing) are: Do you want to transfer software between the two systems? If so, I think you need to create a small partition specifically for the transfers. MacOS X can't read EXT3 and I'm not sure if Linux can

Re: [SLUG] linux on ibook

2003-08-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Adam Hewitt I got myself an ibook about 6 or 7 weeks ago and although originally I was thinking why would anyone want to install linux in this when OS X is so cool, and you can run X11 with Fink?...I am beginning to feel myself being slowly drawn to install linux on it, like a fly

Re: [SLUG] linux on ibook

2003-08-28 Thread Steve Lindsay
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip Any comments? I'm running yellowdog linux on my ibook which I got a couple of months ago. Getting the graphics card working with the version of X in debian at the moment (xfree4.2) requires some work, whereas with yellowdog it was a put the cd in, click a

Re: [SLUG] linux on ibook

2003-08-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Rowling, Jill wrote: Do you want to transfer software between the two systems? If so, I think you need to create a small partition specifically for the transfers. MacOS X can't read EXT3 and I'm not sure if Linux can read HFS(?sp?) properly. There's been a lot of

Re: [SLUG] linux on ibook

2003-08-28 Thread Michael Lake
Adam Hewitt wrote: I got myself an ibook about 6 or 7 weeks ago and although originally I was thinking why would anyone want to install linux in this when OS X is so cool, and you can run X11 with Fink?...I am beginning to feel myself being slowly drawn to install linux on it, like a fly to a