I read somewhere that Yellowdog has solved that problem, and you can now boot from the yellowdog cd to do the install. No MacOS required. I think it was on Linuxtoday.com awhile back. This might only work with certain machines though. > -----Original Message----- > From: Simeon Johnston [mailto:simeonuj at eetc.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 9:08 AM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] G3 ppc and Yellowdog Linux > > > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >