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Re: Hesitating to take the plunge in Debian



On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 12:57:43AM -0800, Renaud Dreyer wrote:
> > On 12/1/2000 Renaud Dreyer wrote:
> > 
> > >Ah... Well, I do have BootX  and the Linuxppc R5 install on my Mac
> > >OS partition so it shouldn't be a problem.
> > 
> > I personally think its a good idea to get direct booting going, bootx 
> > seems to be having more problems with newer kernels, and is working 
> > less and less with newer machines (g4 class) its not too reliable on 
> > my blueg3, for newworld macs use yaboot, for oldworld I think quik 
> > works, BenH is working on something call Miboot for some other macs 
> > too (i think pre OF)
> 
> You mean even Nubus machines? That would make one of my friend
> with a 6100 very happy!

It might boot them, but it won't make the kernel run on them.

Dan

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