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On Monday 31 October 2005 22:02, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> My question is whether I can put Gentoo on the external drive and |
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> get Apple's Open Firmware to boot Gentoo. I do not really want to put |
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> Gentoo on the internal drive, at least right now. I'd love to be able |
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> to use an external drive to boot to Gentoo instead of OS X. |
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I don't know, but reckon you can. |
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Do you know why I think that? I can use my apple bluetooth keyboard and mouse |
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with no linux bluetooth support, use them to install gentoo from the livecd, |
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and even get it to boot from cd (hold c while turning it on). |
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Also, yaboot ultimately references openfirmware device names, which should be |
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available at power on. |
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