Need OF Expert Help Yaboot Questions for Booting Linux Firewire Drive PPC

I did see that article and wasn't sure that I needed to go to that extreme to get the drive to boot. In installing Ubuntu, I noticed that it loaded the modules to address and use firewire drives. If push comes to shove, I guess I could get into compiling now, but I'm sure that'll take more days of trial and error. It just seems that all the things are available for this to boot, but I have one or two pegs in the wrong place and I was hoping that I could get straightened out on that.

I forgot to say that I don't know anything about the nap mode at all, so I would be little help. I am, however, very grateful that someone is responding to my posts. I was beginning to wonder what I was saying that was so bad. 🙂

This is Steve again with my two cents about YDL. I've installed all kinds of distro's on my Fusion i386 vm's on my iMac and have Debian, openSuse, and Ubuntu on my G4 ppc Mac now, but I busted a gut trying to load YDL and once I got it loaded and tried it for a while, I blew it completely off my G4. It is not a distro I would recommend. As far as the nap goes, I guess you went to the various forums to see if anyone else had the fan problem. I know they called the mirror door G4 the wind tunnel. My B&W and my Graphite had very tolerable in the noise aspect.

I see they do have some info on HTTP://wiki.debian.org/iMacG5 on thermal/fan control in Linux.

Japamac,

I think Linux is a good alternative to MacOS. It requires some effort to understand and use it, but an average person with a desire to learn should have no problems.

As a follow up on the drive issue, I've come to the conclusion that Linux and the PPC booting set up doesn't lend itself to easy installation. I wiped my drive and am now trying to install openSUSE on it. That sounds weird, but openSUSE doesn't boot on the ppc like the other distro's. It uses LILO and some other tricks, but I'm no expert there. I'm just doing this install for my own curiosity. The Germans have done a bang up job on openSUSE in both the installation program and in their documentation. I tend to be a Debian kind of guy, but all the distro's have their good and bad points. Thanks for the help.

BTW, my wife is Japanese and she has the fancy Powerbook Pro. She says she needs it for her Koto work, but I think all of us know better. 🙂

On the drive. OpenSuse had the same problem only with different symptoms. Oh well. IDE drives don't seem to be a bother, but forget the firewire anyway. Coincidental, my Debian is hosed. I can get into the desktop GUI and use a terminal, but can't launch any apps. Time for a fix there.

Koto the musical instrument. She is a professional Koto player and travels all over the place to give concerts. Her web site is www.yoshikocarlton.com. She doesn't manage the site, she only supplies the material. Her agent is webmaster.