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On 10/31/05, Mike Williams <mike@××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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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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> Mike Williams |
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So I'm game to give it a try. You say I need to hold c when I power on |
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to get it to see the Gentoo PPC install disk? |
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yaboot is the Apple boot loader? Like grub? (I'm a total Apple newbie) |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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