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n general, you use the [tab] key to move between fields or buttons, the [arrows] to scroll list items, and the [spacebar] to check boxes. The [Return] key activates the selected button in the dialog.

My responses are in italics. The especially critical responses are in bold-red.

Color Choices

• Are you using a color monitor?
• [ YES ] [ NO ] (tab to "yes" and press return)

Powermac/Linux

• Welcome......(blah, blah - info on where to get (a little!) help)
• [ OK ] (press return)

Keyboard Type

• What type of keyboard do you have?
  • sf
  • sg - latin1-lk450
  • sg - latin
  • sg
  • sg
  • slovene
  • uk
  • us - prolex (use arrow to scroll down to your type,
  • us and then tab to "OK" and press return)
• [ OK ]

Installation method

• What type of media contains the packages to be installed?
  • local CDROM <-- (this should be highlighted)
  • NFS image
  • hard drive (tab to "OK" and press return)
  • FTP
• [ OK ]

Note

• Insert your Linux/PPC CD into your CD drive now.
• [ OK ]

Initializing CD ROM....

Installation Path

• Would you like to install a new system or upgrade a system
  which has already been installed with the Red Hat - style installer?
• [ INSTALL ] [UPGRADE] (tab to "INSTALL" and press return)

Drive Partitioning

• Suggestions Suggestions
  • We recommend you partition a 1.2G drive in the following manner:
    • / -150 MB
    • /usr - 520MB
    • /opt - 300MB
    • /home - 200MB
    • /swap - 50MB
• [ OK ] (tab to "OK" and press return)

Partition Disks

• If you need to edit the partition tables of your disks, select the disk in the list and press edit. Note: to install Powermac/Linux you must have at least one partition of at least 50MB dedicated to Linux. (More if you want to install a full-featured system.)
  • /dev/hda - Model QUANTUM FIREBALL SE4.3A
  • /dev/sda - SCSI ID 5 Fujitsu M1606S-512
  •  
• [ Done ] [ Edit ] [ Cancel ] (tab to "Done" and press return;
  you have already done this with pdisk)

Formatting......

• Formatting Swap space on device sda5 ("swap" is partition 5 on my disk)
• ###########_________________ <-- (progress bar)

Select Root Partition

• The root partition forms the base of your Linux file system. It must hold everything necessary for booting and initializing your system. What partition would you like to use for the root file system?
  • Device Begin End Size(k)
  • /dev/sda4 1201 1844400 921600
  • (I only had one root partition - 4 on the scsi,
• [ OK ] [ Cancel ] so I just clicked "OK")

Partition Disk

• You may now mount other partitions within your file system. Many users like to use separate partitions for /usr and /home, for example. You may also mount your MacOS HFS partitions to make them visible to Linux.
  • Device Size Partition Type Mount point
  • /dev/hda5 4209051 Apple_HFS
  • /dev/sda4 921600 Apple_Unix_SVR2 /
  •  
• [ OK ] [ Add NFS ] [ Edit ] [ Cancel ] (arrow to select the Apple_HFS then
  tab to "OK" and press return)

Format Partition

color="black" size="2">(Although pdisk creates partitions, it does not format them)

• What partitions would you like to format? We strongly suggest formatting all of the system partitions, including /, /usr, and /var. There is no need to format /home or /usr local if they have already been configured during a previous install.
  • [ * ] /dev/sdaY / (where Y is the partition number of your root)
  • [ * ] check for bad blocks during format
• [ OK ] [ Cancel ] (I used the spacebar to check both boxes,
  then tab to "OK" and press return)

Components to Install

• Choose components to install:
  • [ * ] X Windows System (+95Meg)
  •  

• (use the down arrow and space bar to

• step through this list and check the
• packages you wish to install)
•  
• [ ] Select individual packages (don't check this one!)

• [ OK ] [ Cancel ]

Install Logl>

Install Log

• A complete log of your installation will be in /tmp/install.log after rebooting your system. You may want to keep this file for later reference.

• [ OK ]

Running

• Making ext2 file system on /dev/sda4

(action begins!......this took 4 -5 minutes on my 1G drive;
it doesn't sound like anything's happening, but it is...)

Base System

• Install Status
• (a table here indicates what's being installed,
• and how long it's going to take.)

(Here, the screen goes to a blank blue, and there's lots of disk rattling for a minute...)

Network Configuration

• Do you want to configure LAN (not dialup) networking for your installed system?
• [ Yes ] [ No ] [ Cancel ] (I selected "No" and pressed return)

Configure Time Zones

• Format machine time is stored in:
  • [ ] Hardware clock set to GMT
  et to GMT

• What timezone are you in?
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  • us Pacific (I chose this one)
• [ OK ] [ Cancel ]

Root Password

• Pick a root password. You must type it twice to ensure you know what it is and didn't make a mistake in typing. Remember that the root password is a critical part of system security!
  • Password : _________________
  • Password (again) : _________________
• [ OK ]

Quik Installation

• Would you like to install or configure the Quik bootloader on your system?
• [ Yes ] [ No ] [ Cancel ] (I chose no, because I'm using BootX)

Change Boot Variables

• The suggested boot settings for Open Firmware are shown below. This should boot off the install floppy on to your newly installed disk. You may like to change them. (or set boot-device to /AAPL,ROM to boot MacOS.
  • Boot-device : scsi/sd@X:0___________________
  • Boot file : /boot/vmlinux root=/dev/sdaY__
    (Note: scsi/sd@X:0 where X = your scsi drive ID for the Linux hard disk, and root=/dev/sdaY where Y = the partition # of your root
    If you don't do this step right, Linux won't boot, and the Mac may freeze.)
• [ OK ] [ Cancel ]