Re: Gentoo on PowerPC

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 17:15, Bryce C wrote:
> Yes, possible and exactly what I do. yaboot is setup to give me Linux,
> OSX, CDROM, and OpenFirmware boot options. I'm fairly confident that a
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I'm learning a lot from this thread. Why use yaboot, if OpenFirmware
will display boot options at startup? Is that so you can get additional
boot options like picking a custom/test kernel at boot?
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> PB will run Linux superbly from what I've heard. I recommend taking a
> PPC livecd (i.e. Gentoo PPC LiveCD) to the Apple store (4mi for me,
> dangerously close) and try booting the desired computer from it. If the
> CD boots, then it does/will work. (Hold down 'c' as the computer boots
> to boot from the cd)
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I like that idea. So, are the folks at the Apple store clueful? Will
they understand that booting from a LiveCD will not harm the machine?
Or, will they freak out?
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> MOL is not an emulator in any way. It is a virtual machine that boots
> any other partition on your mac in another window, or straight on the
> terminal using DGA I believe.
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Got it. So this comes back to my earlier question in this thread. How
do I re-size (or completely re-partition) a brand new Powerbook?
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