Ben Lutgens wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:43:32PM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote: > >Got a G3 PowerMac and was going to install YellowDog, bad news is you need the > >MacOS installation CD to start the process off (lame!!). > > > >Does the ppc debian version require this? > > I don't know, but I have basically given up on the mac laptop that I was going > to install linux on. Makes me sick to my stomach that you need the install CD > in order to make it work. I thought it was just to make the partitions? And I think the bootloader has something to do with it. Maybe they should send that along with the install disks. We had the same problem with a 7200 and PPClinux. Had to partitoin the drive and install the MacOS just to install linux. Not a very good setup. The guy who did it tried to install it without the MacOS disk's but to no avail. Had to load a MacOS system and then load PPClinux then remove MacOS. Kinda a run around. Does the MacOS linux's use the HFS/HFS+ formats? I didn't think so but am not sure. There was also an option to hook up a console to the printer/modem port and change some PRAM/ROM ( not sure wich ) stuff and make it bootable straight into linux without the bootlaoder. That looked interesting except there isn't a way that I know of to do this with the new G3/G4's. I don't think there is a distro out there for the mac that doesn't need the MacOS install disk's. sim