Install on one Mac, use on another?

Markus Deistler yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
18 Mar 2003 15:19:36 +0100


On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 06.20 James W. Walker wrote:
> On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 02:33  PM, Markus Deistler wrote:
> 
> > If the PPC 7200 happens to have a second internal SCSI-disk (or another
> > external one where you hook the SCSI-drive) and if you use the old
> > static devfs (which is very likely on YDL2.3) you may have to edit 
> > fstab
> > somewhen (eg. just before you shutdown on the PPC 8600) and change
> > everything referring to /dev/sdb* to /dev/sdc* (or /dev/sde* if it
> > becomes the fourth disk on the PPC 7200 etc.).

Forgot to mention, keep in mind that the PPC7200's onboardvideo probably
has to use "platinumfb" as the the driver for your consolevideo (while
nearly all other models from that era have to use "controlfb" for their
onboardvideo). I hope the info here:
http://www.jonh.net/lppcfom-serve/cache/1043.html
is still valid.

Best Regards, Markus