Subject: Re: 8500/150 and YDL
From: Pablo Fernandez (spifflinux@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Nov 24 2000 - 05:42:38 MST
Hi Adrian.
Regarding your YDL installation problems, I would
suggest to do not boot from your CD. The only thing
you have to do is place the BootX.sea folder content
in the right place, when you restart your Mac must
appear a OS Selector, just be sure that is booting
from the RAM Disk made to begin the installer.
If you select the Linux button, the installer will
begin and you must tell that you want to install from
the CD. ( I have a Power Mac 7600, the same generation
PPC as yours).
Hope this helps. Feel free to post more questions
since Im a Linux newbie too : )
Cheers.
Pablo F.
--- philippe tapon <philippe@ufoh.com> wrote:
> Adrian Madrid wrote:
>
>
> > * 3rd, what window managers/enviroments are
> available
> > (kde, gnome, wm, e, sawfish, etc.)? Games?
>
> there's a tiny one at http://www.xfce.org. Unlike
> almost every window
> manager since Mac OS 0.97 came out, this one has
> dispensed with the
> desktop metaphor--icons outside the file manager
> refer to processes, not
> files. You may or may not like this. The latest
> version is small,
> compiled easily, and is very stable. The RAM
> footprint is sometimes
> under 5 MB, a very good figure if you want to run
> say Mac-On-Linux,
> which can chew up lots of memory. KDE 2 is the most
> ballyhooed window
> manager out there right now, and it's certainly
> attractive, but it's
> relatively big and crashes a lot, I hear.
>
> > * 4th, I got a Personal Laserwriter 300 with the
> > machine. In OS 9 it was darn slow to print a
> single
> > page. Does it get any faster in YDL? It looked
> like
> > the worst part was creating the image file in the
> OS,
> > after that the printer was allright.
>
> Probably it will get backgrounded more quickly.
> And it may be faster.
> I have a feeling your Laserwriter can handle
> PostScript, which means you
> may be in luck; Linux likes PostScript.
>
>
>
> philippe
>
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