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Howdy, |
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I'm new to Gentoo, and I'm trying to install it on an iBook to play |
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with. I currently have Debian on a partition. |
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My iBook is a 366 Indigo, and the cdrom doesn't read burnt cds. Is |
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there a way to bootstrap the install from the hard drive, a la Debian |
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and OpenBSD? |
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For example, to install debian I can copy some filesystem images, a |
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couple of kernels, yaboot and yaboot.conf to a 100MB hfs "bootstrap" |
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partition, then boot to openfirmware, and boot with "boot hd:,yaboot". |
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Then I can hit tab and choose "install" to boot to the install, or later |
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"vmlinux" to boot my linux partition. I can also do a "boot hd:,ofwboot |
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bsd.rd" and boot to the OpenBSD installer kernel with ramdisk install |
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image. |
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I would like to try Gentoo, I was delighted to find that it supported |
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PPC after Mandrake and Suse abandoned it. Yellowdog also does not |
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support this type of install that I have seen. After scouring over a |
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year of posts on the mailing list archives, I can't find any clues as to |
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what I could copy to a bootstrap partition, or how to install this way. |
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My partition is big enough to put the minimal cloop image if that would |
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work. |
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In Linux land, there has to be someone other than Debian users who |
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figured out how to bootstrap a Mac with no floppy or bootable cd :) |
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I have never thought seriously about netbooting, but maybe that would be |
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my only option... |
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I will do some lurking on #gentoo-ppc as lincr if anybody wants to chat. |
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Thanks, |
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Lincoln |
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How kind of you to be willing to live someone's life for them. |
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