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Quoting Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 10:54 am, Rob Beard wrote:I've had a quick look to see what distros are out there and two came upaspossible choices - Mandrake 9.1, and also Yellow Dog Linux.Debian also do a Mac installer - If she's not willing to pay for a MacOSX licence. Do a google search for her specific Mac and Debian. There are guides out there for my iBook but I admit I haven't looked for others. AFAIK, there are still certain pieces of hardware that will work with OSX that won't work with Debian though. (IIRC it's the same with Mandrake and YellowDog). Not do-able over the phone though.My friend isn't very computer literate, she also lives in Norwich so I would be talking her through the installation of Linux on the phone.Not easy at the best of times. Can you see if a local LUG would be able to help her on your recommendation? www.lug.org.ukI just wondered if anyone is running Linux on a Mac and could give any advice of any problems or any tips for installing it?If you haven't installed it yourself, doing it over the phone is going to be a nightmare. Unless you get exactly the same messages on screen, it could be an exasperating phone call. Been there, done that. Could easily be the end of a beautiful friendship. :-(
I might ask her if she can hang on until I next go down to Norwich, I can spend a day at hers trying to sort it out then. I did have another thought, trying to do an install remotely via ssh if this is possible. Can't remember which distro I saw it in which allows the user at the other end to enter a couple of commands to boot up the installation, enable ssh and then it can be installed remotely? (Might be mistaken, I know I managed it with Gentoo, but couldn't get the whole lot installed easily enough). Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.