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HOWTO-Booting with Yaboot on PowerPC
Chapter 3 - Obtaining Yaboot


Yaboot is included with Debian GNU/Linux installation for PowerPC computers. Updates for Debian may be downloaded via the normal methods, such as apt-get, dselect, or dpkg. Installation of an updated version of yaboot on your system does not change your boot configuration; you must use the included ybin utility to do that.

You can also download yaboot directly from the yaboot home page at http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/. If you download it using Mac OS, be sure to download using binary (not text) format, and don't let Stuffit Expander or another utility expand the archive in Mac OS.

You can download the precompiled yaboot-binary-X.Y.tar.gz, or the source tarball yaboot-X.Y.tar.gz. To unpack the binary distribution, use the command tar -zxvpf yaboot-X.Y.tar.gz. The components are unpacked into a usr/local/ directory inside the directory where the command was executed.

To make and install from source, first make sure you have a working compiler (gcc) and the make program installed. (If not, download the binary yaboot tarball instead of the source.) Then run the following commands (substitute the actual revision numbers for X and Y):

          tar -zxvpf yaboot-X.Y.tar.gz
          cd yaboot-X.Y
          make
          su
          make install

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HOWTO-Booting with Yaboot on PowerPC

Version 1.00, Oct 28 2001

Chris Tillman