What kind of nightmare.....

[Kathryn Tate]

It's easy. You should partition for Appleboot 1mg, swap (the size of 
your ram doubled), and / (root) for all the rest. Or you could just 
have YDL do it automatically.


Post if you have any problems.



On Aug 23, 2005, at 8:17 AM, Matthew McGraw wrote:

>
>
> QUOTE:
> I just purchased YDL from the website (With the Manuals). I have an 
> honest question and would appreciate an honest answer :O)
>
> How easy/hard if YDL to install on my Macintosh? Is it pretty 
> straightforward? I was reading the HOW-TO's for Debian Linux and I 
> must admit I was confused as hell...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian P. Rosser
> END QUOTE:
>
> Cheers, Brian.....
>
> Welcome to the fun and exciting world of Linux.  I have been playing 
> with open-source OS's for several years, beginning with FreeBSD 4.4 on 
> an old Pentium I i got at a garage sale and most recently installing 
> Suse 9.1 on a pIII 1ghz.... I also have YDL 3x installed on my eMac 
> G3.  It works perfectly... the install was extremely straightforward 
> and i was up, running. surfing, e-mailing, printing... etc, within an 
> hour of receiving my disks....
>
> the usual caveat is, of course, YMMV (your mileage may vary).  you 
> didnt say what kind of mac you have (desktop/laptop), what kind of 
> processor, or anything else... for myself, YDL is the only distro i 
> was able to get running on my eMac.
>
> What i would say, as a "self-taught" linux fan, is go for it.  You 
> will be happy with the end result, not just b/c you will have a 
> stable, fast, sweet-looking OS, but b/c you will have done it yourself 
> and learned something along the way.  IT'S FUN!
>
> feel free to post your questions to the list, we are happy to help.
>
> keep smilin,
> matt
>
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