i have a new world imac and wanted to install suse 7.3 but in the setup for text mode yaboot doesn`t work. and in graphical mode the both yaboot and ybin are nowwhere to be found. please help. also my modem isn`t responding (/dev/ttyS0) (/dev/ttyS1) and i can`t play sound files (burgundy soundcard)

I'm a PPC Linux veteran going back to MkLinux DR3, but am completely stumped trying to get Linux, any Linux, running on a 550 MHz G4 PowerBook. I've been through Usenet, IRC and web resources and received lots of gracious advice, much of which was contradictory and none of which worked. So far, Mandrake, SuSE, Yellow Dog and Debian haven't done it for me. I'd appreciate any help anyone could give.

Let's start with the simplest thing -- what distros are known to work on that system?

I need some advice on how to install LinuxPPC on my iBook (192mb-6gb HD mac os9.2). How do I partition the HD,-do I need to?

I have a 233MHZ imac the bondi blue. I thought it would make a great little linux machine. So i proceeded to install linux on it and all was going well i got the cd to boot etc. I come to find out after i install it that it cannot boot from an ext2 partition without something such as a bootable cd or netbooting. So now i have an imac with no HFS partitions and a nice linux setup but i can't boot it! how do you boot linux on one of these without setting up a network boot?! i have been searching the net for days now... I might just go back to macos :p but that would be admitting defeat... any help would be appreciated

Hi, I have an iBook with Suse 7.1 and Mac OS 9. In general I'm very happy with my linux on the iBook, but I have some problems. Perhaps anyone can help me. 1.) I didn't get the airport working under linux. I want to use it with a dhcp server. Can anyone tell me how to configure it correctly. 2.) I want to use Mac on Linux. After the start of mol I get a black window - that's all. Does anybody had the same problem or know a solution? 3.) How can I change between console - ctrl + alt + F* doesn't work. so that's all for the moment. thx for help. Ciao Ulrike

There is a good deal of great chess software out there for linux. Xboard, Scid, GnuChess, and a great new FICS client - Eboard. All of them are wonderful programs and run well on the PPC versions of linux that I've used (YDL2, PPC1999). The one exception is The Big Bad Voodoo Daddy of them all, Crafty. The .src.rpms for Crafty all throw me 'architecture excluded' errors, and when I try to compile from the tarball, one can clearly see that it's making pentium-only calls.

So my question is: Does anyone know of a linux/PPC port of Crafty?

Supposedly there will be one in the new SuSE distro, but until my chicken hatches, I'm not inviting folks over for omlettes.

I have red hat 7.1. I have downloaded the star office from sun site. These are bin files but they are not getting executed. Can you help me as to how to run bin files under red hat 7.1

The Problem; Extremely slow response in both KDE & Gnome while loading programs. Can take 15-30 seconds just to load a terminal window. Once in the program things usually run at a reasonble speed. except TuxRacer which seems to have a refresh rate of 1/3 HZ. Actually that is the update rate, the refresh, of course, must be something faster. Anybody else experience this problem or know of a fix?

Okay I'm lost and out of my depth... I just installed LinuxPPC2000 from the XWindows based bootable CD onto a separate 2Gig partition. Everything goes well except BootX doesn't work. This I understand this is because iMac's are New World machines. So I adjusted yaboot.conf in the /boot partition's System Folder as the UserGuide .pdf suggests, but when I reboot the machine just hangs, doesn't boot, and obviously isn't finding the linux partition. I figure this is something to do with Open Firmware (I recently installed the latest 4.1.9 imac update). The Linux kernel installed is 'vmlinux.2.2.15pre3' - should I try updating this? Any help as what to try would be much appreciated, preferably before I go bald from stress. :-)