On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:57 AM, Thomas Detoux
A friend of mine want me to install linux on his old ppc-powered laptop mac. However, his cd-rom reader is broken and can't be used so my plan was to make a net install using a usb stick to boot (if that's possible).
We're gonna need the actualy model in order to give the proper advice. Also, depending on what system it is, it may not end up being worth thr trouble, 11.0 ran pretty slow on my Wallstreet with the stock G3/266. Even the opening sounds in KDE didn't play properly.
I've found some howtos on the wiki, which tells me - either to use some script (makeSuseBootDisk or something like that) that does not work with ppc (didn't try, I just looked at the help section in the script) - either to copy all files from the boot/<arch>/loader directory from the cd and do some weird stuffs afterward, but there is no loader directory on the ppc mini-iso.
So, what do I need to do to make a bootable usk disk from the net install ppc iso ?
If it's an old world system(any PPC based powerbook through the Wallstreet), all you have to do is copy the initrd32 and linux32 files to the bootX directory and start the system with them. Once the installer fails, you can select the onboard ethernet port and do an nfs or ftp install. If it's new world, I'd say if you have another machine handy, you could try installing it onto that one and then swapping the drive in. I regularly swap drives between my P2 and P3 based laptop with no real issues other than changing the video and audio setups. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+help@opensuse.org