<author>
<name>Chris Tillman</name>
</author>
- <version>Version 1.01, Feb 24 2002</version>
+ <version>Version 1.04, Feb 22 2004</version>
<abstract>
This document contains installation and usage instructions for
<prgn>yaboot</prgn>, the GNU/Linux PowerPC bootloader.
<p>
This document is maintained in the upstream yaboot source. Patches
and translations should be sent to erbenson (at) alaska.net. The most
-recent version of this document is available via the yaboot rsync
-tree: rsync://penguinppc.org/yaboot, and <url
+recent sgml version of this document is available via the yaboot rsync
+tree: rsync://penguinppc.org/yaboot.
+ <p>
+The master location of this
+document is <url
id="http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/doc/yaboot-howto.shtml"
name="http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/doc/yaboot-howto.shtml">.
<p>
it to use Unix newlines (linefeeds only). If you use MacOS newlines
(just carriage returns), <prgn>yaboot</prgn> will be unable to read the file.
+<p>
+You must pick a partition that is formatted with either HFS or HFS+. If
+you have Mac OS X installed on a UFS partition (You can use the OS X "Disk
+Utility" app to check this), you will have to find another partition to use.
+If Mac OS X is installed on UFS, you probably have one or two partitions
+of the "Apple_Boot" type. They have HFS filesystems on them. Pick one,
+mount it under MacOS X, and store the files there.
+
<p>
Boot into OpenFirmware, and type at the prompt:
<example>
How do I install Debian?
<list>
-<item> <url id="http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/doc/install.en.html"
+<item> <url id="http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/powerpc/install"
name="Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 For PowerPC">
-<item> <url id="http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/powerpc/install" name="Installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 For PowerPC">
</list>
<p>