Subject: RE: Installing Yellow Dog
From: Ferwerda Darren (app3dxf) (app3dxf@ups.com)
Date: Fri Jan 11 2002 - 08:32:24 MST
Ray,
Documentation is quite sparse for most of GNU/Linux, however,
specific docs for PPC are even harder to find. I would suggest the site
www.tuxppc.com and their satellite sites, www.imaclinux.net,
www.powerbooklinux.net. Both of these sites provide good information
regarding the specific models of apple hardware, and the installation notes
for each.
HFS+ support is based upon driver support. Right now, there is not
a driver that is usable. Installing Yellow Dog on its own partition is
actually the only way to get YDL to work. HFS is not case sensitive, which
UNIX and subsequently GNU/Linux prefer.
Virtual PC is used for emulating an i386 chip. That can run any
regular x86 based distro, it would not run YDL, as YDL is compiled for PPC.
Hence it is impossible to run YDL on Virtual PC. If you would like, use
RedHat on Virtual PC, because YDL is based off of the RedHat distribution.
Darren
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Fryer [mailto:r.fyr@verizon.net]
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 10:32 AM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Installing Yellow Dog
Boy, I wonder how many will install Yellow Dog after all the
documentation. It appears to be a long way from being easy to
install, although I have done a successful burn of "YDL-2.1". I don't
like that you just can't simply use HFS+. I would not want to
install my Hard drive HFS for OS 9 but keep yellow completely by
itself on a partition on it's own. I'm wondering whether it might be
better to install it using virtual PC. Has there been any success
doing this?
alternate e-mail: rfyr@mail.com
Beige G3 Desktop w/Motorola ZIF 466mhz processor running 9.2.2, OS
X.1 Rev B ROM DIMM, 544mb RAM, Apple 48x CD rom -- external yamaha
CDRW 6x4x16, ADS USB card, ixMicro card, MS optical wheel mouse
(MacSense 4 port DSL router)
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