[COLUG] Installing Linux on Old Apple PowerBook

[Dave Maxwell]

On Friday 07 July 2006 19:09, Matthew Gardlik wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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I'm trying to figure out how to get OS X NetInstall to work from a Debian box.  
You want some pain?; try that on for size.

Anyhoo, it shouldn't be necessary to recompile yaboot to boot from a different 
device.  It is a very lilo like piece of software and most anything you can 
do with lilo you can do with yaboot.

Of course, the documentation IS a problem.

These two pages describe using yaboot to Netboot macs (one of them shows you 
how to get an old Ubuntu installer working no less):


http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/yaboot/doc/netboot.shtml
http://hermes.osuosl.org/mediawiki/index.php/Mac_Netboot

Regards,

Dave

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