Re: 9.2 PPC?

[Stew Benedict]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Stephan Haller wrote:

> It's a long time ago I wrote to this list. But I and my Mac are back
> again :)=)
> 
> Sorry to say that Mandrake 9.1 is unstallable on my Mac since my
> graphics card is somehow broken  (not totally). So I tried another
> distro but I'm not satisfied with it.
> 
> So back to Mandrake again. Knowing that 9.1 cannot be installed (yes it
> can be installed via text mode but is not comfortable at all) I
> downloaded the cooker to hard disk. Insert the 9.1 boot CD and turned on
> my Mac and after yaboot was coming up I chose "install expert" to be
> able to install Mandrake from hard disk. And that does not work neither
> with a 9.1 boot CD nor with an 8.2 boot CD.
> 

Switching to hard disk from CD isn't going to make much of a difference.  
I assume you tried:

install-gui gui-old video=aty128fb

as the installer mentions?

I guess I don't understand why you're so against using the text install.  
You only do it once normally, then never have to look at it again :)

> How can I install the cooker? It confuses me that it is so much harder
> than on the x86 platform although I though it is nearly the same
> installer.
> 

Upgrade from 9.1 using urpmi.  I haven't looked at the installer in some 
time, and I suspect there are issues with it.  There's a long message in 
the archive from a few months back on what I did on my iMac to get 
started. 

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Stew Benedict
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MandrakeSoft