User Guide Feb2000

LinuxPPC 2000 User’s Guide Last modified 15 February 2000 Copyright © 2000 LinuxPPC, Inc. http://www.linuxppc.com/ i Foreword ongratulations on deciding to use LinuxPPC 2000! This is the latest version of the rapidly- C developing and growing open source operating system for PowerPC computers. Many, many developers have engaged themselves in making the software in this distribution work well. We hope you are pleased with the results of their efforts! This User Guide is intended to get you started using LinuxPPC 2000 as quickly and easily as possible. We will be offering updates to this guide online from time to time, as new information becomes available. Just keep an eye on the LinuxPPC website at http://www.linuxppc.com/ for more information and updates for your LinuxPPC distribution. Once again, thanks for using LinuxPPC! LinuxPPC 2000 User’s Guide Foreword ii Credits nformation on this guide is based on excellent documentation for Linux-pmac installation by I Paul Mackerras, Jeff Carr's original PowerPC Linux Install and User Guide, Nick Bastin's PBG3 FAQ, Craig Sadler's G3 FAQ, the FAQ-O-Matic, as well as other tidbits gathered around the web, various readmes and man files, mailing lists, newsgroups, and finally my own experiences. A big thanks to all the people who have e-mailed contributions and suggestions. Guide design and layout, LinuxPPC logo and further contributions from John Grantham. For more information, visit http://surf.to/multimedia. Additional contributions and LinuxPPC 2000-related updates from Jason Haas. It has to be said… Apple Computer, Mac OS, Power Macintosh, Power Computing, Umax, Motorola, PowerPC, BeOS, Red Hat, and all other trademarks and registered trademarks listed on this User’s Guide are property of their respective owners. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. LinuxPPC 2000 User’s Guide Credits iii Contents About LinuxPPC 1 What’s new in LinuxPPC 2000 3 Important information – before you install 4 Installation overview 5 Partitioning your hard drive 7 Backing up data, partition types, utilities, using Perldisk Installation setup 15 Where to get the files, what files you need, using the bootable CD-ROM, special notes Directly booting into LinuxPPC …