Subject: Re: Can't install Linux on PPC (Mac)
From: Marc Stergionis (stermarc@home.com)
Date: Tue Feb 20 2001 - 10:47:17 MST
At 2/19/01 12:47 PM, Tobias Bohlin from the digital address
tobias_bohlin@hotmail.com typed these wise words:
>Howdy list. I am new in here. My problem:
>I can't install mkLinux on my Power Macintosh 6100/60AV. I added "Boot
>extensions" from the CD into the addons folder. Additionally, I added Apple
>CD-rom extension and removed all the others (e.g. QuickTime, Acrobat etc),
>as I figured they shouldn't be necessary (?). The computer crashes with all
>the extensions available in the addons folder. This happens when one clicks
>the BootX-icon (start file). When you have only boot extensions and Apple
>CD-rom in the addons folder, it won't boot (doesn't like the add-on). I
>tried with only that addon and with Apple CD-rom (I thought it might be
>necessary to have the latter to be able to boot the machine from CD-rom, but
>I suppose Linux has its own methods for that?)
Don't worry about the extensions. It's better to install using the
MkLinux/Apple booter, than BootX. At least more reliable.
If you use the MkLinux kernel and point it to the CD, then it should
install, if you have enough RAM and drive space. The installer will see
the CD; the mac CD-ROM driver's irrelevant at that point.
>
>Anyway, what I'd like to do is to format the hard drive and install only
>mkLinux. My distribution is called Yellow Dog Linux and seems to be a
>server-only dist (possible?). I truly hope for tips! It says something in
>the documentation about having to configure screen resolution etc. Hmm, do
>they mean with apple control panel or in the folder that installs itself
>into the hard drive when you click BootX on the CD. By the way, when you've
>done that, you're supposed to click the BootX-icon on the hard drive (the
>folder). Such is the nature of the installation it seems. To summarize, I
>can't boot with the boot extensions-file in the addons folder. Different
>numbers of addons (without the extension file) give the various results I
>described above.
You *can* install YDL, but there is a special monokernel built for that
by Takashi at
<http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/>
ie. you use the YDL Nubus install kernel from sourceforge, do the install
and then replace the YDL install kernel with the Nubus Monolithic kernel
from sourceforge to *run* YDL.
YDL will *not* install by itself from the files that come on the CD, you
need the specially built kernel from sourceforge.
You can also install MkLinux the conventional way (using the Pre-R1 or
DR3 files) and then replace the MkLinux kernel with the NuBus monolithic
kernel from sourceforge. MkLinux will actually run faster with that.
And/or you can install MkLinux, get it set up and then use the YDL kernel
to upgrade that installation with your YDL CD. You'll then have a running
YDL install as well.
hth
-ms
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Marc Stergionis
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Benefis Healthcare www.benefis.org
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