Subject: Re: newbie/card bus/road rocket question
From: Stephanie Ellison (stephi@io.com)
Date: Thu Nov 09 2000 - 12:57:32 MST
I'm in the middle of downloading the YDL Installation Guide to see if it's what I can use. I have a PowerCenter 150 with a Powerlogix 350 MHz upgrade card, 96 MB of RAM, 3 hard drives, external CD-ROM drive. I'm running LinuxPPC 2000, Mac OS 8.1, and Windows 98 SE in Virtual PC.
I'd like to hear from others regarding whether YDL is more functional and/or better than LinuxPPC and whether tech support is better with YDL and the list here. I've been using LinuxPPC for the past several months, but I've been wondering lately if there is a better distro. Please give me concrete, hard facts that make YDL a better distro than LinuxPPC.
A problem I have is that with the version of LinuxPPC 2000 that I bought in March of this year is that it is NOT possible to install so that you can use bootX to boot into Linux from the control panel or upon booting. I have to use what's called the Old World Mac Direct-Booting method. This method creates the swap, root, and boot partitions so that when you either set the startup disk to the hard drive partition LinuxPPC Boot or use the command-option-shift-delete (not the del key!) key combination upon booting, it boots directly into LinuxPPC. The problem with this setup is that I doubt that I'm using the full speed of this upgrade card because it doesn't access the upgrade card software in direct-booting mode. It looks like it's running slower than Mac OS.
Thank you,
Stephanie Ellison
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