Re: [vox-tech] linux on Mac iBook

2005-03-20 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Henry House ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Yaboot did not work reliably on my machine due to firmware bugs; I trust > that this situation has improved. I guess I got lucky on that one. > Nice. I used a kernel argument to to this, but it only worked on ADB > keyboards, not USB. I could look up h

Re: [vox-tech] linux on Mac iBook

2005-03-19 Thread Jonathan Stickel
Jonathan Stickel wrote: Rick Moen wrote: Quoting myself: Quoting Jonathan Stickel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Someone wants to install Linux on a Mac iBook (i.e. PowerPC arch.) at the installfest Saturday. This is new to me. Any recommendations, especially in regards to distribution? For new users,

Re: [vox-tech] linux on Mac iBook

2005-03-19 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Mar 18, 2005, at 7:03 PM, Henry House wrote: På fredag, 18 mars 2005, skrev Rick Moen: Quoting Henry House ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [Special considerations for "New world" Macs:] - the bootloader; I believe this situation is greatly improved since my experience These days, there's one that goes i

Re: [vox-tech] linux on Mac iBook

2005-03-18 Thread Henry House
På fredag, 18 mars 2005, skrev Rick Moen: > Quoting Henry House ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > [Special considerations for "New world" Macs:] > > > - the bootloader; I believe this situation is greatly improved since my > > experience > > These days, there's one that goes into its own partition/slic

Re: [vox-tech] linux on Mac iBook

2005-03-18 Thread Jonathan Stickel
Rick Moen wrote: Quoting myself: Quoting Jonathan Stickel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Someone wants to install Linux on a Mac iBook (i.e. PowerPC arch.) at the installfest Saturday. This is new to me. Any recommendations, especially in regards to distribution? For new users, I often go with Fedora.

Re: [vox-tech] linux on Mac iBook

2005-03-18 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting myself: > Quoting Jonathan Stickel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Someone wants to install Linux on a Mac iBook (i.e. PowerPC arch.) at > > the installfest Saturday. This is new to me. Any recommendations, > > especially in regards to distribution? For new users, I often go with > > Fedo

Re: [vox-tech] linux on Mac iBook

2005-03-18 Thread Micah Cowan
Bill Kendrick wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 03:58:08AM -0800, Henry House wrote: Otherwise, Linux on a Mac is pretty much indistinguishable from Linux on any other platform. Good luck! I believe Linus has recently switched from Intel-compatible arch to PowerPC (a Mac). I think I read that in Lin

Re: [vox-tech] linux on Mac iBook

2005-03-18 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 03:58:08AM -0800, Henry House wrote: > Otherwise, Linux on a Mac is pretty much indistinguishable from Linux on any > other platform. Good luck! I believe Linus has recently switched from Intel-compatible arch to PowerPC (a Mac). I think I read that in Linux Journal or on

Re: [vox-tech] linux on Mac iBook

2005-03-18 Thread Josh Parsons
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 03:58 -0800, Henry House wrote: > - the bootloader; I believe this situation is greatly improved since my > experience Last time I tried this kind of thing (5-6 years ago) it was pretty nasty. You could either boot via a MacOS program (which I hated), or try your hand at

Re: [vox-tech] linux on Mac iBook

2005-03-18 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Henry House ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [Special considerations for "New world" Macs:] > - the bootloader; I believe this situation is greatly improved since my > experience These days, there's one that goes into its own partition/slice: yaboot. > - tuning the framebuffer for good video perf

Re: [vox-tech] linux on Mac iBook

2005-03-18 Thread Henry House
På fredag, 18 mars 2005, skrev Jonathan Stickel: > Dylan Beaudette wrote: > >On Thursday 17 March 2005 03:23 pm, Jonathan Stickel wrote: > > > >>Someone wants to install Linux on a Mac iBook (i.e. PowerPC arch.) at > >>the installfest Saturday. This is new to me. Any recommendations, > >>especial

Re: [vox-tech] linux on Mac iBook

2005-03-17 Thread Jonathan Stickel
Dylan Beaudette wrote: On Thursday 17 March 2005 03:23 pm, Jonathan Stickel wrote: Someone wants to install Linux on a Mac iBook (i.e. PowerPC arch.) at the installfest Saturday. This is new to me. Any recommendations, especially in regards to distribution? For new users, I often go with Fedora.

Re: [vox-tech] linux on Mac iBook

2005-03-17 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Jonathan Stickel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Someone wants to install Linux on a Mac iBook (i.e. PowerPC arch.) at > the installfest Saturday. This is new to me. Any recommendations, > especially in regards to distribution? For new users, I often go with > Fedora. I see that the test ver

Re: [vox-tech] linux on Mac iBook

2005-03-17 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Thursday 17 March 2005 03:23 pm, Jonathan Stickel wrote: > Someone wants to install Linux on a Mac iBook (i.e. PowerPC arch.) at > the installfest Saturday. This is new to me. Any recommendations, > especially in regards to distribution? For new users, I often go with > Fedora. I see that th

[vox-tech] linux on Mac iBook

2005-03-17 Thread Jonathan Stickel
Someone wants to install Linux on a Mac iBook (i.e. PowerPC arch.) at the installfest Saturday. This is new to me. Any recommendations, especially in regards to distribution? For new users, I often go with Fedora. I see that the test version of Fedora 4 is out with a version for PPC. I'll