Subject: Re: Mac Newbie yaboot question
From: Steve Cockwell (stevec@canux.com)
Date: Wed Sep 27 2000 - 07:30:51 MDT
Steve Moitozo wrote:
>
> Steve,
>
> 1) You should re partition your system with 3 partitions. The FIRST should
> be 32 megs (Mac OS Standard, not HFS+), the SECOND should be your root and
> the THIRD should be your 100 meg swap.
I understand the issue now - fundamentally the only way to get a Mac
with new roms to boot directly into ydl would be to either burn new roms
that understood ext2, or put linux entirely on an hfs partition...
> 2) Then you need to install the following files on the 32meg partition:
> ramdisk.image.gz
> yaboot.conf
> yaboot.txbi (then rename to just yaboot)
> and vmlinux
Thank you very much for the detailed instructions. I was able to get
YDL installed on the iMac without ever booting or using the MacOS. It
was tricky, and I ran into several catch-22 situations in doing it.
Here is what I can remember of it:
1. Boot (command-c) MacOS CD
2. Create single partition (I made it 128Meg)
3. Boot (command-c) YDL CD
4. Create swap and root partitions using fdisk during install
5. Boot (command-c) YDL CD (to make sure that partitions get validated
by bios)
6. Install YDL.
7. Boot (command-C) YDL CD (this time to put the kernel, etc. in place)
8. Command-F2 to get to linux shell prompt
9. mount -t hfs /dev/hda5 /mnt (so we can put yaboot, vmlinux etc. on
the HFS partition)
10. cp the files you specified to /mnt/
11. used 'cat > ./yaboot.conf' to create file (could not find working
editor anywhere (even rvi wouldn't work)) Cat turned out to be faster
than setting paths to the right libraries and changing terminal types...
:-)
12. boot (command-o.f.) and changed firmware settings to boot yaboot
every time.
Presto! It looks very nice, and runs quite snappy - the YDL people have
done a nice job. The X server didn't work right away, but a visit to
Xconfigurator fixed that quick. The sound doesn't work, but I'm going
to try re-compiling a monolithic kernel with the right things in it
soon. I don't know anything about getting an Epson 740 USB printer to
work with it, but I suspect that I use the "direct to port" option in
printtool to configure it.
Next I suppose I wait for the source code for StarOffice to come
available so it can be ported.
You folks have a very active list here - it's very nice to see. Thank
you for all of the responses.
.src
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