[COLUG] Installing Linux on Old Apple PowerBook

[Matthew Gardlik]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 20:26 -0400, J. Jacob Hopkins wrote:
> You should not have to swap optical drives.   You should be able to 
> netboot yaboot.
> 
> I netbooted yaboot to install Ubuntu 5.10 on my G3 iBook (clamshell) after 
> upgrading the hard drive.  I didn't document the details, leading me to 
> believe it seemed relatively straightforward at the time... likely the 
> cause of much non-documentation.

Jacob,

Could you maybe describe the general process to install and use yaboot.
Either privately, or on list, whichever is more appropriate.

I found the following webpage which seems helpful:

http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/yaboot-howto/

I think I will be ok downloading and compiling yaboot.  I'm more worried
about customizing yaboot.  What else would I need to netboot using
yaboot.

Thanks,

Matt
matt at mattgardlik.com