Gentoo Archives: gentoo-ppc-user

From: Rajiv Aaron Manglani <rajiv@g.o>
To: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@×××××××××××××××××××.net>, Gentoo PPC User <gentoo-ppc-user@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] installation woes
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 17:40:16
Message-Id: a05210604baf2bab7122f@[10.96.0.12]
In Reply to: [gentoo-ppc-user] installation woes by Andrew Gaffney
1 do you have any apple system cds ? if you install os 8 or higher you
2 should get netscape. you will need a newer mac os install cd anyway
3 because you will probably have to repartition your drive, unless you
4 are adding a second hd.
5
6 gentoo does not have a license to redistribute stuffit on the install
7 cds (though maybe we should get one).
8
9 maybe you could copy the needed files from another mac over appleshare?
10
11 >I'm not really much of a Mac person (or atleast the OS). I'm trying
12 >to install Gentoo on my PowerMac 7500 that I just got last night. I
13 >have MacOS 7.5.2. It doesn't come with Netscape or BinHex or
14 >anything else useful. I have no way to get BootX, or Netscape, or
15 >StuffIt, or anything like that. I tried downloading the files I
16 >needed on my x86 Gentoo box and burning them to a CD. My Mac just
17 >saw the files as text files. What can I do?
18 >
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