Thanks Joss! Right now, Yaboot comes up & I have to manually type the path to the Linux root partition, but least it boots up as a linux notebook. ;) I think I'll have to devote considerably more time then I had anticipated on this endeavor, but I'd like to thank you for your help. Joss Winn wrote:

On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 11:09:12PM -0400, haystack wrote:

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I'm trying to install SUSE PPC v7.1 on the latest apple 500mhz G3 ibook as a dual boot system. After creating the 4 partitions, I did the following:

1) reinstalled MacOS 9.1 in the first partition 2) copied the suseboot folder to the second partition 3) created the swap partition in the third partition 4) installed Linux on the fourth partition, and played with it for a while. :)

This is the first Mac I've had, and I have no idea what the statement on page 89 means: "First start up MacOS and drag the folder suseboot from the first CD onto the Linux Boot Volume and mark this in the control field 'Startup Volume' as active."

I copied the suseboot folder, but what is a control field, and how do I mark it as active?

Also, Linux doesn't recognize my network interface card, or the sound card.

Thanks!

It means you should drag the 'suseboot' folder from the first CD on to the Linux Boot volume sitting on your Mac OS 9.1 desktop. Then, go to the Apple icon in the top left of your mac screen and select Control Panels (not 'control fields' - no such thing) and select 'Startup Disk'. You will be shown any HFS partitions that the Mac can boot off, one of which should be your Linux Boot partition. Click on it so it is selected ('active) and, providing it doesn't complain, reboot.

good luck,

Joss (why doesn't SUSE use ybin/yaboot on a bootstrap? It's sooo much better...YDL uses it, Debian uses it... providing an easy way to use configure with ybin would cut Linux on PPC mailing list traffic in half!) -- http://www.josswinn.org