Re: [suse-ppc] SuSE 7.3 with new iBook
Well, I created the partitions, gave them reasonable sounding names (I don't think the type or name really matters to anybody except MacOS and maybe OF). In the OF I just tell it to boot hd:9,\\yaboot (but actually the ybin utility does it all for you). The main problem was the inital bootstrap. I ended up booting endless times from the CDROM (boot cd:\\yaboot) before I got it right. yaboot & ybin where a great help of course. Attached please find a preliminary installation instruction I am writing. I hope it helps. Schlomo On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Rolf Schmidt wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 29. November 2001 15:24 schrieb Schlomo Schapiro:
Why do you have to use the Apple Drive setup ?
I used pdisk and it works. The only problem IMHO is that you have to know all the partition types by heart to use pdisk (why can't it have this info builtin ?).
Sorry, but I never tried it successfully. Could you explain how you do this to me?
You use C and set then the Startblock, length, Name and Type. But how do you boot? As far as I can remember, OF only can boot from HFS or HFS+
Do you boot then manually out of OF?
-- Schlomo Schapiro Senior System Administrator MobilEye Vision Technologies Ltd. 24 Mishol Hadkalim St., Jerusalem, Israel Telephone: + 972-2-586-6989 Ext. 131 Mobile: + 972-55-767898 Fax: + 972-2-586-7720 email: schapiro@mobileye.com WWW: http://www.mobileye.com
Am Sonntag, 2. Dezember 2001 12:21 schrieb Schlomo Schapiro:
Well,
I created the partitions, gave them reasonable sounding names (I don't think the type or name really matters to anybody except MacOS and maybe OF).
In the OF I just tell it to boot hd:9,\\yaboot (but actually the ybin utility does it all for you).
The main problem was the inital bootstrap. I ended up booting endless times from the CDROM (boot cd:\\yaboot) before I got it right. yaboot & ybin where a great help of course.
Attached please find a preliminary installation instruction I am writing. I hope it helps.
But you are actually doing, what we describe in the manual. You boot from an HFS Partition. And then you can go easily with our lilo.conf and use Drive Setup. Rolf -- Rolf Schmidt -------------------------------------------------- "Reintegration complete," ZORAC advised. "We're back in the universe again ..." An unusually long pause followed, "... but I don't know which part. We seem to have changed our position in space." A spherical display in the middle of the floor illuminated to show the starfield surrounding the ship. "Several large, artificial constructions are approaching us," ZORAC announced after a short pause. "The designs are not familiar, but they are obviously the products of intelligence. Implications: we have been intercepted deliberately by a means unknown, for a purpose unknown, and transferred to a place unknown by a form of intelligence unknown. Apart from the unknowns, everything is obvious." -- James P. Hogan, "Giants Star"
Believe me, I tried to follow the manual. It just didn't work out. So I started digging into the few docs I could find and after I really *understood* how this stuff works it became a piece of cake. The doc I sent is for my internal office doc site, btw. And I didn't manage to get the installed lilo to work. yaboot/ybin worked like a charm out-of-the-tar.gz :-) Schlomo On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Rolf Schmidt wrote:
Am Sonntag, 2. Dezember 2001 12:21 schrieb Schlomo Schapiro:
Well,
I created the partitions, gave them reasonable sounding names (I don't think the type or name really matters to anybody except MacOS and maybe OF).
In the OF I just tell it to boot hd:9,\\yaboot (but actually the ybin utility does it all for you).
The main problem was the inital bootstrap. I ended up booting endless times from the CDROM (boot cd:\\yaboot) before I got it right. yaboot & ybin where a great help of course.
Attached please find a preliminary installation instruction I am writing. I hope it helps.
But you are actually doing, what we describe in the manual.
You boot from an HFS Partition.
And then you can go easily with our lilo.conf and use Drive Setup.
Rolf
-- Schlomo Schapiro Senior System Administrator MobilEye Vision Technologies Ltd. 24 Mishol Hadkalim St., Jerusalem, Israel Telephone: + 972-2-586-6989 Ext. 131 Mobile: + 972-55-767898 Fax: + 972-2-586-7720 email: schapiro@mobileye.com WWW: http://www.mobileye.com
participants (2)
-
Rolf Schmidt
-
Schlomo Schapiro